List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2016

Come join herScript for a chance to create an app using MIT's App Inventor, and learn what it takes to complete the app development process from idea to deployment in just one day! You will be competing against other teams to create the best app for the hackathon's theme, which will be revealed on the day of the event. Different prizes will be rewarded for each of the three categories. Each team will be partnered with a mentor from the club, and will be coached throughout the entire process. All equipment, such as laptops and testing phones, will be provided for you.

Hack for Homelessness is a hackathon to help contribute to solving homelessness! Aside from giving a few dollars from time to town it is hard to know how to help homelessness. In Silicon Valley, the place where there’s an app everything, they have work to do when it comes to addressing their neighbor’s basic human needs. Join the Homeless Hackathon together with unhoused individuals, developers, designers, marketers, and problem-solvers from across the technology and nonprofit sectors to design solutions to homelessness. Food and drink will be provided.

Def Hacks() is hackathon hosted by high school students, and is only for high school students. A 24-hour hackathon that will aim to help students discover and learn something new, with workshops and mentors. The two themes for this hackathon are related to finding an issue in your community and making something to help combat the problem. It can either be for preventing bullying and/or stress at school or building something to make your city more efficient and intelligent. So come work on innovative projects which have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Try to build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale. Bring your laptop, mouse, and any snacks that you prefer. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is included during the event. If you're planning on sleeping, bring a sleeping bag, pillow, and toothbrush.

AppLovin is hosting a 24-hour hackathon for tvOS developers. Offering creative hacking challenges to build the coolest Apple TV app possible, special prizes, food, drink, and other entertainment. Two winners will receive $5,000 and a chance to demo their app to journalists, VCs and other influencers.

This is a special immigration-themed design sprint workshop bringing together forward-thinking designers, hackers, and legal & policy experts to learn and apply the best practices in design thinking and hereby inspire creative new solutions to problematic issues in immigration. The three primary goals of this event are on finding creative ideas tested with real immigrants from different backgrounds, bringing together legal/policy experts, design thinkers, and technologists who wouldn’t otherwise meet, and to build a community and continue what you have started at the Startup Weekend Immigration.

Hackathon Kevin Schawinski, ETH Zurich Laurent Vanbever, ETH Zurich Task 1: Home networks 2.0 Task 2: Build your own citizen science project. Sponsored by Swisscom.

ProtoHack want to provide non-coders with the tools, knowledge and connections to bring their idea to life with the creation of a real prototype. No coding will be required. At the end, you or your team will present your prototype on stage to a panel of judges to get feedback.

This is AngelHack’s 9th Global Hackathon Series. The Challenge is Simple. AngelHack’s nonprofit arm, Code For A Cause, is challenging superhero coders to build a technology that will have a positive impact on the world, people, or environment. No matter your age or skill level, just come and create projects that are innovative, and have the potential to improve or influence people’s lives. Build a hack that people can use, enjoy, and potentially scale and get the chance to fly to Silicon Valley for the Annual Global Demo Day and participate in a week of extensive pitch training!

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), collaboration with Automatic Labs, are pleased to host this Connected Car Hackathon, an event focused on making technologies for the safer smart-driver of tomorrow. Bringing together programmers, developers, artists, technologists, data analysts, environmental stewards, travel behaviour experts, commuters, and others who are interested in using technology to address this region’s transportation challenges. Participants will have the opportunity to use data sets coming from connected cars to build apps and tools that encourage smarter driving, safer driving, and maybe even encourage travellers to consider alternate travel options. So come to develop apps and tools to encourage smart driving and/or solve transportation and mobility challenges!

The Dev Bootcamp April Hackathon is inviting everyone including current Dev Bootcamp student, coding experts, and coding newbies. Come with an idea or join a team on-site and spend the day building a great project with enthusiastic, fun people. You don't have to be an expert to join this hackathon. In fact, there will be beginner coding workshops alongside the event so everyone leaves having learned a new skill and contributing to a project! The teams will be determined based on interest and skill level but if you would like to come with a pre-formed team and idea, please reserve 2 spots for additional members to be assigned at the kickoff. The judging panel is made up of industry influencers, educators, hackathon pros and civic leaders.