List of hackathons in Tacoma, United States in 2016

Musician hackers in and around Tacoma, WA! You're invited to participate in the Grand Audio Rule Music Hackathon, where you'll be challenged to Hack Music — Build, Code, Record! This is a competitive 3-day event where you will compete with like-minded musicians and engineers to create new music-related projects from scratch. You'll develop, and then perform or present your project in a concert format. Prizes include a chance to perform with a renowned national recording artist.

AEC professionals in the Seattle area—developers, UI/UX designers, civil engineers, and built environment professionals! You're invited to participate in the AEC Hackathon 3.12 - Seattle. At this three-day Architecture, Engineering, Construction (AEC) sector event, you will get to network and collaborate with your peers in the AEC community. You'll be challenged to create cutting-edge solutions that can revolutionize the design, construction, and maintenance of the built environment. Collaborate and compete to win prizes in one or more of the following categories: Best Overall Project Best Project that Solves a Big AEC Problem Best Digital Cities Project Best Hack from a Past Event You'll find useful info at this hackathon tips page!

Curious about the web? If you're a coding school student, a developer at any level, a marketer, or a designer, then Hack the Dot Seattle #10: Post-Election Edition (11.17) is for you. It's a two-hour hackathon where participants collaborate to create a functioning site for a given domain name. The team that produces the most creative and fun site wins. So sign up and be part of Hack the Dot Seattle and meet like-minded kids in the Seattle technology and startup space.

Seattle-area hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, social activists, and more! Do you want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? AngelHack invites you to come and participate in the Seattle edition of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series! You'll get to collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative 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, or Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work, or Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses, or Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Compete for an array of awesome prizes from sponsors and community partners including Women Who Code, Proctor & Gamble, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Upwork. The winning team in each city location of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series will be inducted into the AngelHack social good accelerator, a 12-week mentorship, and acceleration program. If you need answers to your questions, then visit the hackathon tips page!

Christian technologists and entrepreneurs! Your challenge is to innovate culture-shaping technologies that would reclaim our times for the Gospel. Come participate and you will be confronted with challenges such as how technology can: Bring the word of God to the first generation of children who are growing up with mobile devices? Help reduce and/or combat the effects of fatherlessness in a child’s life? Foster a culture of generosity towards each other? Identify, promote, test, collaborate, augment, and fill the gaps of ministry programs around the city? Disrupt human trafficking? Visit the hackathon tips pagefor the best advice on how to participate in Code for the Kingdom!

Design Swarm is based off of the swarm event process, in which teams are presented with scenarios with incomplete information and have to work in short time lines to solve these real world problems. This year's swarm topic will be centered on water purification at an unknown scale to be used internationally in low resource communities. During the swarm process, attendees of the Seattle Interactive Conference will be able to view how handles are presented and solved.

TeenTech Washington's second annual Techathon is open to students of grades 6 though 12 in the Puget Sound area and beyond. The goal of the Techathon is to engage students in civic problem solving through the use of modern technology. With a variety of civic prompts and a mulititude of subjects, the TeenTech Washington Techathon offers a unique experience for everyone. The Techathon provides an opportunity for innovative youths to work in teams to create tech solutions for real-world problems. We call it a Techathon, because it is open to any use of modern technology you can imagine. This could be programming, circuitry, 3D modeling, photo editing, or anything else.

Have you ever had a cool smart home idea that seems like it could literally be from a movie? Do you have a great idea to combine taxi rides and meeting strangers? Then your type of inventiveness is perfect for the Tiny Home & Futue Auto IOT Hackathon by T-Mobile and SIC! compete in teams to create and bring to life a new concept, with the top 5 teams going on to showcase on-stage at Seattle Interactive Conference for a chance to win great prizes.

Think you're a wizard with IoT? Come and participate in the Seattle Interactive IOT Hackathon. This event is focused on IOT for tiny home & automotive. Build an app that controls toasters, or an AC unit. Maybe build a facial recognition app to control access to your car! Five final teams will all be showcased on-stage at Seattle Interactive Conference.

Interested in solutions to helping keep young people stay in school and out of jail? Come participate in the TeamChild Hack—one of the first-ever hackathons in the country to specifically address the “school-to-prison pipeline”. It’s a historic and collaborative event where affected youth, law students, lawyers, legal service providers, coders, and designers will create technology-enabled open source solutions to address the numerous challenges faced by underserved teenagers who cannot afford a lawyer and legal services.