List of hackathons in Trenton, United States in 2016

Starting up and fearful of rejection? Come and attend the one-day Rejectionathon event that helps founders gain confidence in selling. At Rejectionathon, you’ll be given a list of challenges that will put you just slightly out of your comfort zone, and you’ll want to complete as many of them as you can with your team. Similar to a hackathon, you'll spend the day solving fun, adrenaline-packed "hustle challenges" with a small team.

You don't have to be an expert to participate in the Week of VR - Unity® Boot Camp! It's designed for beginners with no prior experience. If you're an intermediate or advanced user, then you will be able to compete in a VR hackathon. All participants will be able to use a protoype of Google's Project Tango — the world's most advanced tablet. All participants will learn how to develop for this amazing untethered room scale device.

Interested in exploring the Future of Food: Innovating for a 21st Century Food System. They say, “you are what you eat,” but do you truly understand what you’re eating, where it is comes from, and the impact it has? Join the conversation with Be Social Change at our Future of Food panel to not only understand what’s on your plate, but also how it got into your shopping cart and onto your dinner table.

High school students! Come alone or with your team of up to 4 hackers and participate in Space Apps Next Gen — the first two-day high school space hackathon. You'll compete to build software, open hardware, data visualization, and citizen science platform solutions that contribute to space exploration and solve global challenges that focus on improving life on earth. Challenges this year are: →DATA DIVE: Create an app, data aggregator, or visualization of open NASA data to educate and involve the public with trends and information. →SENSOR YOURSELF: Build something that can allow robots or astronauts to navigate through a hazardous obstacle course relying solely on sensor data. →"SPACE INVADERS": Create a game set in space! Have fun and be creative! →CREATE YOUR OWN: As long as it relates to space science or is an innovative solution to a problem your team can solve, create your own 'Space App'!

Designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, VR enthusiasts, forward-thinkers, curious minds! Ready for a challenge? Think how mobile transformed how you manage your everyday life! Your mobile device is now the center of your daily routine -- alarm clock, workout companion, grocery list, entertainment system, local yellow pages, and more. Now, re-imagine what this daily routine would look like in virtual reality. At the 24 Hours in VR hackathon, your team will choose an hour of the day and create a conceptual mobile VR product to showcase how you can transform daily routines with virtual reality.

People are always evolving, learning, and adapting. In the 21st century, new technologies force us to change more quickly and dramatically than ever before. Is technology advancing humanity or is it making us lazy? Startup Institute is hosting the HackHuman Hackathon to challenge you to build and pitch a product/service that uses technology in order to advance the way we live, work, or play. Not a coder? Not a problem! This event is open to educators and human services professionals, business minds, artists, students, technologists, and more.

Are you a tabletop game maker and enthusiast? Ultimaker and MakerOS invite you to participate in GAMESMASH - The Game Design & Fabrication Challenge. At this 2-day event, you'll participate as part of a team of 3-6 like-minded individuals. You'll have access to a range of fabrication methods, including 3D printing, laser cutting, vinyl cutting, and CNC milling. Design and build the best tabletop game possible and then present it to a jury of expert game designer judges.Compete for prizes for Best Design, Best Mechanics, and Best In Play! Check out this tips pagefor advice on taking part in the hackathon!

The Fownders $10K Start-Up Pitch Competition is happening! The goal is to mentor and guide early stage entrepreneurs to take their ideas from seed to scale.  Teams will be judged on:  ⇒a solid MVP + ⇒understanding of their market + ⇒growth and sustainability planning + ⇒branding and design + ⇒and execution.

Sign up for VR Weekend Bootcamp in Unity for HTC Vive & Google's Project Tango. Learn how to build a world with Unity and inhabit the world with the HTC Vive Virtual Reality Kite. At this intensive three day VR boot camp, you'll learn how to build fully functional VR experiences using Unity. You’ll learn how to build worlds, develop truly cross-platform VR experiences, and get introduced to the New York VR community. With this grounding in VR fundamentals, you'll explore the unique features of modern VR equipment and how to develop for each. You'll also be introduced to developing Augmented Reality and 360 Film with Unity®.

Join NYU MusEdLab for the Interactive Surfaces Hackathon, ft. Chairigami x Novalia — two days of creating, collaborating and turning ideas into musical realities. Participants will be transforming cardboard furnitures into interactive music surfaces with Zachary Rotholz, the founder and CEO of Chairigami, a company that designs and create beautiful cardboard furnitures, and Dr. Kate Stone, the founder of Novalia, a design company based in UK that brings print to life. The workshop will have two phases: 1) Planning - Brainstorm, design and prototype your ideas. 2) Making and Sharing - Bringing the cardboard furnitures to life with your music and art.