List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2016

Middle and high school students! Step up to the App Challenge! Absolutely, positively no coding required! The Verizon Innovative App Challenge is a nationwide contest in which you are challenged to develop concepts for mobile apps that solve a problem in your community. It’s a unique, hands-on learning program that teaches collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, and entrepreneurship, as well as STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) skills and coding. It builds on your excitement about technology and aims to equip you with skills you need to succeed in the jobs of the future.

Come and join the U.S. Bank Small Business Hackathon. Developer teams will be asked to leverage U.S. Bank and MasterCard APIs to create innovative solutions that improve productivity, financial stability and customer experience for all small businesses.

CHIME FOR CHANGE, Global Citizen, and Facebook—with support from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers—are hosting CHIMEHACK 3, The two-day hackathon at Facebook’s headquarters. The event will bring together hackers along with issue experts and non-profit leaders to create tech-driven solutions focused on gender equality. Participate to identify ways for disruptive technology to advance solutions for reporting and eliminating violence against women.

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!

Are you a techie teen — or want to be one? School's out now, so sign up for the Teen Hackathon (teenhackathon.com). Take this opportunity to "watch and learn" how to code!

Peerlyst—the community of security professionals—invites you to sign up today to participate at the second annual Peerlyst design hackathon! Whether you're a student, a security beginner, or just excited to make something cool, come join a team on-site, and work together to bring your idea to come true! You can bring your own team or form one at the event. Your project topic will be given at the start of the day.

Techie kids! Ask your parents if you can participate in Hack the Future? It's an all-day hackathon to show you what it's like to be a hacker and see if it's for you. You'll be free to work on whatever you want. There will be experts who will give you a place to start (if you want one) and try to keep you from getting stuck! This is 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 Google, Nvidia, Intel, Facebook, and Microsoft.