List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2016

A hackathon to revolutionize the customer retail experience and bring a new dimension to interaction between you and the customer. iBeacon and Beacon are often used interchangeably. iBeacon is the name for Apple’s technology standard, which allows Mobile Apps (running on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from beacons in the physical world and react accordingly. TECH Fashion Week seeks to bring together designers, developers, business professionals, and technologists to cultivate ideas on how to Disrupt Fashion.

Knodemy is organizing the knocode Hackathon @The Athenian School  to empower young students and guide them to become innovators and lead the way to the future through exposure to computer science and technology (STEM). After a quick lesson on the basics of programming, you will break into teams where you will get a chance to collaborate in order to brainstorm ideas, create a project, and market the product. At the end of the Hackathon, each team will present their project to the attendees, judges and knodemy instructors.

The NFL is exposing it’s data for developers. The challenge will be to develop the next generation of engaging NFL stories using the provided NFL Next Gen Stats Data. Using the raw location data, you’ll have to find an innovative way to get information or patterns out of the data that can provide new insight into the game, educate the fan, or demonstrate the game in a new way that will blow everyones mind away!

Come and make February 2016 the Month of Code: where as many people as possible learn a new coding language, build a new app, participate in a Dev event or hackathon, and solve real-world problems.

Hack the Future is an all-day hackathon celebration to show you what it's like to be a hacker and see if it's for you. You won't won't be told what to do. You'll be free to work on whatever you want. A unique opportunity to learn about state of the art software, hardware design and engineering from mentors working for Bay Area startups as well as big companies like Facebook and Microsoft. Learn how to make your own video games, learn to solder electronics, create a webpage, make mods for existing games like Minecraft, create things using a 3D printer, design a new product, and many more!

A workshop hackathon in which you will work hard to get from 0 to MVP in just 2 days. You will earn skills such as rapid prototyping, applying learned SLP skills in real life, and working in a team. Groups will be divided into 4 teams - Strategy, Developers, Marketing, and UX/UI Designers - and will work towards getting a product out there as quickly as possible!

Join Dev Bootcamp for its January Civic-Themed Hackathon! You don't have to be an expert to join this hackathon. In fact, there will be beginner coding workshops alongside the event and teams and project ideas will be formed based on skill level and interest!

OneTraction is an Open Innovation Accelerator in Silicon Valley founded by Harvard, Stanford and Google alumni, to help next generation startups launch disruptive products that solve real life problems. This event is open to those who work, start, mentor and/or fund tech companies. The main aim of this hackathon is to develop applications that will accelerating towards a successful startup launch and to expand the hacker's network with industry expertise. Your challenge is to develop something that is able to launch an MVP within 60 to 90 days!

The Herothon hackathon invited anyone between 18 and 30 to come and build on products that will have the potential to solve some of the world’s problems. The themes include Education, Transportation, Government, Energy, Health, and Currency. The winning team will have the opportunity to pitch to over a 100 investors on Draper University Pitch Day March 2nd, 2016.

A Hackathon Matching Silicon Valley’s Tech Talent With America’s Biggest Sporting Event. Girls in Tech's weekend-long Hackathon is callin out iOS and Android app Developers, Designers and Product Developers to team up and have the opportunity to prototype and develop apps that visitors new to San Francisco or staying during the Super Football Week can use. Think of real-time geo-location app for finding fellow football friends, Restaurant finders, reservation app for shows, concerts, boat rides, or Traffic Alert apps. Developers should be familiar with third-party APIs, in particular they should be able to integrate a REST API in a mobile application (e.g. Android), call the API endpoints, parse the response, and display the data in a meaningful way. UI/UX Designers can team up with developers and create assets/graphics or flows in order to make a great app that is fun and easy to use.