List of hackathons in Santa Cruz, United States in 2017

Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, testers, and storytellers in and around the Bay Area! Your invited to participate in Developer Camp: The World's Best Hackathon. This 48-hour event is a hackathon for iOS, bots, and the web — with BOTS being the focus of this next edition. Developer Camp is a collaborative event, where expert hackers and designers serve as mentors to help participants learn to code or to build custom hardware.

High school student coders in the Bay Area! DefHacks() CA invites you to sign up and participate in the defHacks() CA High School Hackathon 2017. Coders of all levels of expertise are welcomed! Come and showcase your coding skills — or learn the basics from DefHacks' mentors and workshops. Everyone will be able to develop an app to submit to the jury!

We invite everyone interested to a morning event filled with STEM related workshops, a panel discussion, and a networking break. Join all the members of the TeenTechSF family for the TTSF Global Youth Summit and World Pitch. We will have a livestream with TTSF Global chapters in Seattle, New York, China and many places around the world and will showcase the Civic Hackathon World Pitch Finals. We will also have hands-on workshops for all of our youth participants led by tech businesses and organizations from all over the Bay Area including Happinss, MakeSchool, Intel, PilotCity, Sift Science, and Literator, in addition to a panel for parents attending the event. TeenTechSF's mission is to empower the next generation of tech innovators and civic entrepreneurs. Run by and for teens, all our events are free. However, registration is required prior to the event. Students, parents, teachers, and mentors are all welcome to join us! For more information: check us out on Facebook and teentechsf.org. REGISTER NOW AND JOIN US -- SPACE IS LIMITED More Information regarding about where the event will be is coming soon!

Female high school students in and around Mountain View, CA. Symantec and Girls Teaching Girls to Code invite you to sign up to participate in the all-female XXHacks 12-hour hackathon. You'll be challenged to collaborate to design a website or mobile application that addresses a real world problem.

VR hackers in the Bay Area! Enflux invites you to showcase your skills at the Future of Sports Technology Hackathon. You'll network and collaborate with the best-of-the-best VR techies and be challenged to solve real problems for athletes, coaches, sports companies, and fans by leveraging the latest in sports technology. You'll get to use the latest technology in performance tracking, sensors, video, and VR/AR!

Young men and women — especially Black, Latino, and Asian and Pacific Islander youth! You're invited to participate in the UbuntuHack hackathon. This is a hackathon between Police and young people — an app building, rapid prototype testing, design thinking event. You don't need to know how to code or design! UbuntuHack mentors will be there to help you as you build your app or website.

Techies and hackers in and around the Silicon Valley area. The Foothill Inventors' Club and Computer Science Club invite you to come and sign up to participate in OwlHacks. This event is the first hackathon hosted by Foothill College students! Come and compete for great prizes -- cash and movie tickets! All participants will also get free stuff, so bring your Swag bag!

Hacker and AR/VR enthusiasts in the Bay Area. ProtoHack invites you to sign up to participate in ProtoHack: AR/VR - Process of an AR product + Use Cases. This event is a lead in to ProtoHack's upcoming hackathon. At this event you'll learn how to prototype augmented reality and virtual reality products.

Evening Workshop: Creating Full Body Experiences in VR Calling all Software Developers! Especially those of you in town for Developer Week. Join our evening workshop to explore an alternative to controller inputs in VR: Full Body Motion Capture Clothing. Full Body Motion Capture provides an intuitive method of interaction that complements the immersive nature of VR for games, tools, and entertainment products. This workshop overviews basic input concepts in VR and focuses on a breakout session for developers to experiment with Enflux full body clothing products. Who Should Sign Up: Intermediate level Unity developers interested in developing applications with full body motion. The class will focus on experience design and programming with Enflux clothing rather than instructing Unity fundamentals. Participants are expected already be comfortable/experienced with Unity. What You Will Learn: A solid framework of different types of input in VR and advantages/disadvantages How to get started using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) How to implement basic experiences in VR using a full body motion capture device (Enflux clothing) Session Led by Expert Instructor Russell Jahn is an interaction engineer whose work intersects programming with animation, art, and user-centric design. Currently VP of Software Experience at Enflux Smart Clothing, Russell has a diverse background of rapidly creating film and game software and tools. He programmed interactive software and props used hands-on by actors in Denis Villeneuve's critically acclaimed film Arrival (2016), Brian Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), and the ABC television hit Quantico (2015). Russell has recently created customized VR experiences for set pre-production used in Darren Aronofsky's upcoming film Mother and for gags on Jimmy Kimmel Live! This workshop will be hosted at Upload by Enflux About Enflux Enflux (www.getenflux.com) makes Motion Capture Clothing for animation, sports, healthcare, and virtual reality. The Enflux developer kit costs only $349 (includes shirt, pants, and free SDK access), compared to professional motion capture systems, which cost up to $100,000. Enflux clothing is fashionable, simple, affordable, and mobile. This workshop is ideal for developers interested in creating VR sports applications for “The Future of Sports Technology” Hackathon at the Microsoft Reactor for Developer Week. More info available at https://www.getenflux.com/pages/events

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