List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2016

The Food Hackathon in San Francisco has invited interested parties to collaborate to brainstorm and create hardware and software products and tools which will address some of the most pressing issues in food sustainability for future generations. Join the movement and make a difference in just three days!

Enter the Small Business Tech Hackathon. The hack is open to everyone who wants to design, code, and build new and innovative apps that target small businesses or non-profits. Your innovative solutions will help entrepreneurs and visionaries easily manage the administrative tasks of keeping their businesses successful and their non-profits healthy. Build a brand new solution that addresses one of these challenges: Category 1: Create an app that saves a small business time or money by solving a unique SMB problem. Category 2: Create an app that saves a non-profit time or money by solving a unique non-profit problem.

Creative women—and men—in the San Francisco Bay Area's tech sector! Do you have ideas on using technology to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in San Francisco! Collaborate with like-minded people in an effort to build creative digital solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from, work. Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. The winning team from San Francisco will be inducted into AngelHack’s 12-week Social Good Accelerator mentorship and acceleration program. Prior to taking part in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon, visit our hackathon tips pagefor best practice info!

Object storage hackers! Participate in the S3 Server Hackathon sponsored by the Scality S3 Server team. Seize the opportunity to showcase your technical prowess with the new Scality open source implementation of Amazon S3 Server. You'll be able to interact directly with the S3 Server dev team — develop your own app on top of it, or extend its storage capabilities by interfacing with Seagate Kinetic IP drives.

Hackers and supercoders! How'd you like to exercise your coding skills by designing and building modules for the Redis in-memory database, cache and message broker? You'll use the new Redis Modules API to create a plug-and-play module that will extend Redis in new, exciting ways. Let your creative mind run free! Come up with a scenario that would benefit from Redis and imagine a better way of doing it with Redis.

Tech-savvy teens? Come participate in the TeenTechSF Civic Hackathon and collaborate ideas for tech solutions for the most pressing issues facing teens today! Your project can take any form—app, Arduino project, website, video, 3-D printer prototypes! Compete and win a chance to participate in the TeenTech Civic Hackathon World Pitch.

The Telecom Application Developer Hackathon, also known as TADHack will have a forum in San Francisco to compete on the global scene for a piece of the prize pool! In partnership with Cisco Spark and Tropo, this event will have free registration and meals will be provided as you compete against other sponsored locations for huge prizes.

Student? Interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)? Sign up to attend the Columbus Day - Discovery Hackathon. The hackathon is structured to guide you to become a builder and creator, and not just a consumer of technology. Pick a theme to celebrate Columbus Day! No prior programming experience is required. You'll learn the steps to take a product or service offering from concept to launch. You'll also learn the skills of brainstorming, problem solving, time management, leadership, collaboration/team work, and presentation/pitching.

ProtoHack is the code-free hackathon for designers and business people. ProtoHack is a non-profit organization that exists to help non-technical founders create something from nothing with 12-hour experiences consisting of inspiring talks, workshops, networking, presentations and prizes. This event is completely code free. Instead you will use prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes and anything else you can think of to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage.

All are welcome! Women and men—in which case you should bring along a woman coder/designer/student! Women Who Code - Silicon Valley invite you to "Hack for a Safe Campus". Come and collaborate on a project that involves writing code! Projects are not limited to web, mobile, or desktop applications. Any stack or framework is allowed. Your project may include a hardware component, but code must be an integral part of every project.