List of hackathons in Trenton, United States in 2018

Thinkers, creators, designers, and doers in the New York area! If you have an interest in technology and a passion for solving problems, then Capgemini's Millennial Innovation Council invites you to participate in the Social Good Hackathon. Come with a team, or join one at the event. You'll collaborate on challenges to help businesses solve their problems – with a conscience. Compete for prizes, recognition, and a chance for your solution to be chosen as the real-world answer to some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Developers, designers, and entrepreneurs on the East Coast! Are you committed to building a better working world? Great, then EY invites you to participate in the Agents of Change Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and build an innovative Microsoft Azure-based solution that can materially impact the world of insurance -- by building a solution that can customize insurance plans, leverage data from IoT, and help insurance agencies advise those clients affected by natural disasters. You can build your project in one of the following three categories: »Custom Coverage Challenge »Disaster Relief Challenge »IoT Challenge

College student techies in the New York Area! You're invited to come and showcase your technical skills and creativity to build and deploy state-of-the-art software/hardware solutions. Come network and collaborate with your peers and compete for recognition and prizes.

Thinkers, creators, designers, and doers in the New York area! If you have an interest in technology and a passion for solving problems, then Capgemini's Millennial Innovation Council invites you to participate in the Social Good Hackathon. Come with a team, or join one at the event. You'll collaborate on challenges to help businesses solve their problems – with a conscience. Compete for prizes, recognition, and a chance for your solution to be chosen as the real-world answer to some of the most pressing challenges of our time.

Developers, designers, and creators in New York and the tri-state area! Are you interested in entertainment and love to code? If so, the AT&T Developer Program invites you to participate in the AT&T Entertainment Hackathon - New York City. You'll be given 24 hours to imagine, design, and prototype an innovative app that will disrupt the way people experience, consume or create content. Come with your team, or join one at the event. Collaborate and compete for your share of a prize pool of over $2,500 in Amazon gift cards for the best entertainment app, the best next-gen advertising solution, or the best video/game. Visit the expert tips page to prepare for your hackathon experience!

We love dogs so much that we’re having a Canine Hackathon! Register and join the fun as we build apps and products for dogs. At the end of the hackathon we’ll have dogs judge the apps on their merits, counting barks and tail wags to determine the best one. The prize for winning is receving lots of doggy affection.

Join us for a fun evening of cocktails, celebrating innovation, launching several exciting initiatives & connecting you with pioneering innovators in Silicon Alley!     Learn from the New York Bartending School about creating the perfect summer cocktail.  Hear the story of celebrated cocktail inventor Hanne Paine on inventing cocktails for the most popular Sci-Fi show on TV, The Expanse.  Join us as Womensphere and Space Apps NYC launch these exciting innovation initiatives!  Womensphere Cocktail Invention Contest We invite you to this summer launch of the Womensphere Cocktail Invention Contest – inviting all (of legal drinking age) to use STEAM* to invent the next generation of cocktails! How will your knowledge of chemistry, biology, neuroscience, psychology, or visual arts, help you invent the next cocktails? The actual competition will be in October during the Womensphere Fall Festival, but all interested participants (and tasters) should come join us this summer! (*STEAM = science, technology, engineering, arts & design, mathematics) Womensphere Innovation Leadership Lab Join us in the summer launch of the Womensphere Innovation Leadership Lab (WILL), which empowers women and girls to use innovation and STEAM to create solutions for the challenges we face in our world and societies today. We kick off with three global programs empowering women and girls in universities, colleges and secondary schools around the world, to use STEAM to share their vision and solutions to the Global Goals for Sustainable Development, through the Womensphere Global Codefest, Global Artfest, and Global Videofest. Space Apps NYC & the Space Apps Global Challenge in New York Join us in the summer kickoff for Space Apps NYC’s Global Challenge. Space Apps is an annual international hackathon that occurs over 48 hours in cities around the world.  Incubated and operated by NASA, and part of the Open Government Partnership, Space Apps is an annual event that pulls citizens together regardless of their background or skill level. Don't let the name fool you... it's not just about apps! Tackle a global challenge using robotics, data visualization, hardware, design and many other specialties! Inspire each other while you learn and create using stories, code, design and, most of all, YOUR ideas. Show us your problem-solving skills and share your talents with the world! Through our partnership and collaboration on these exciting initiatives, we work on democratizing and popularizing inclusive innovation leadership and using STEAM for global challenges, across New York City, and all over the world. Join us as we launch these exciting initiatives this summer, while enjoying exciting new cocktails, and meeting some of Silicon Alley’s most inspiring innovators! The evening's speakers will include: The New York Bartending School Learn from the experts in mixology and bartending! The New York Bartending School is the largest bartending school in New York City, with multi-bar classrooms, and providing industry-level bartending training in up-to-date modern bar facilities taught by licensed bartenders with decades of experience in the bar industry. Walk away learning how to make great cocktails! KrystleLynn Kingcade is one of the best mixologists at the New York Bartending School has been in the restaurant industry for over 20 years. As a corporate trainer for the Hard Rock Cafe, she traveled around the world opening corporate restaurants. During her time as the Beverage Director for Añejo in New York City, she discovered new spirits from Mexico and shared them with her staff and guests. KrystleLynn's passion for spirits and cocktails has been publicized in magazines, news articles, and local news channels. At the moment she is enjoying her career on a rooftop at The Press Lounge, as well as traveling and teaching educational courses and seminars.   Hanne Madeleine Gates Paine is a celebrated cocktail inventor, and the Chief Operations Officer at hackNY. hackNY aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community. Co-organized by faculty from NYU and Columbia, hackNY has since February 2010 organized the hackNY Fellows program and hackNY student hackathons to create and empower a community of student-technologists. Hanne has previously worked at NASA, Google, Green Map Systems, and Betterpath. Hanne also works with Kagan MacTane on Paine X MacTane on exciting immersive media experiences, co-inventing new languages, and co-inventing new cocktails for the popular Sci-Fi TV Show, The Expanse.  Hanne is an Expanse superfan who has been instrumental in co-leading the #SaveTheExpanse efforts, popularizing The Expanse culture and fictional language (Lang Belta or Belter Creole), and organizing the epic, star-studded The Expanse Season 3 Finale Party. Hanne teaches immersive Lang Belta classes at Sci-Fi cons in the US, Canada, and Europe. Hanne has also co-invented 56 cocktails for The Expanse, which the lead actors and producers themselves have enjoyed, and will be sharing the story of her cocktail inventions at this event. Joseph Spens is the Executive Director of Space Apps NYC — a non-profit grassroots organization which hosts the annual NASA Space Apps Challenge. By organizing events at the intersection of space science and creativity, Space Apps NYC promotes STEAM initiatives in New York communities underrepresented in those fields. Space Apps NYC is a founding location — and recurring main stage — for NASA’s Global Space Apps Challenge, innovating the new space industry over a weekend of extreme problem solving. In addition to volunteering for the NYC space community, Joseph is a full-time software engineer and has a background in architecting web applications. He has been immersed as a technology leader in Silicon Alley, working as a systems architect and technical lead for e-commerce and health technology startups in New York City. Together with Hanne Paine, Joseph hosted and co-organized this year’s epic, star-studded The Expanse Season 3 Finale Party at SAP Next Gen.   The partnership of Space Apps NYC and Womensphere, and the new Womensphere Innovation Leadership Lab, will democratize technology education in New York, popularizing space technologies and using technology and innovation for social good, among aspiring innovators from all boroughs of New York, from students to professionals, across all races, genders, and economic groups. Analisa Leonor Balares is founder, CEO, and Chief Innovation Officer of Womensphere, a global platform that empowers women and girls to use STEAM, leadership, and innovation to create the future, and that fosters collaborations for equality, inclusion, and sustainability. Analisa curates the Womensphere Summits & Festivals, and leads building the Womensphere Innovation Leadership Lab, Womensphere Incubator Network, and Womensphere Foundation. Previously, Analisa worked in Wall Street for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Milestone Capital, and in technology and social media for Microsoft and 85 Broads (now Ellevate). She is an alumna of Harvard Business School, Mount Holyoke College, and Lester Pearson United World College. Analisa is also a NASA Datanaut, and one of the Partners-Organizers of the NASA Space Apps Global Challenge for New York City. She serves as a Commissioner of the Women’s Refugee Commission, Advisory Board Member of Music Beyond, Member of Women’s Forum of New York and International Women’s Forum, and Academy Member of the Global Teacher Prize. She also served as a Member of the Harvard Women’s Leadership Board, and L'Oreal's global advisory board for sustainability and social impact. Analisa has been recognized as a UBS Global Visionary, Young Global Leader (by the World Economic Forum), and 100 Most Influential Filipinas of the World (by FWN). She has been honored with the Madam C.J. Walker Leadership Award by US National Minority Business Council, and Distinguished Leader Award by UN Women New York Chapter. Join us as we launch these exciting initiatives this summer, while enjoying exciting new cocktails, and meeting some of Silicon Alley’s most inspiring innovators!   ** Please note: Participants must be age 21 or above to be able to join this event.**

Location: Galvanize NYC, Hudson Square Boardroom  About this workshop: The world is changing rapidly and competition is stronger than ever.  The speed of disruption is exponential and corporations cannot sit idle. In order to be successful, innovation and speed to market are crucial. In this talk we will share the tools, skills, and processes corporates are employing to stay ahead of the competition. There will be case studies from some of the largest global enterprises and hands-on design thinking activities.  “The method of Business Models Inc. provides you a roadmap to unlock solutions that are literally in the room. It’s a step-by-step guide to creating intense engagement and encourages diverse and unique points of view. This leads to a powerful shared vision and strategic plan coupled with a pragmatic execution plan.” George Borst, CEO Toyota Financial Services (USA) Target Audience:  Innovation Leaders Product Managers Intrapreneurs  Disruptors Entrepreneurs Meet Your Instructor: Carley Jacobson is a Strategy Designer at Business Models Inc. Through Business Models Inc she supports organizations with strategy, business model generation and validation, and value proposition design. For 6 years prior, Carley helped grow Autodesk's maker community Instructables.com. With over 115 do-it-yourself tutorials, Carley has gained over 13 million page-views and recognition from major publications such as The Huffington Post, GQ Magazine, Popular Mechanics, and more. She uses her experience in online community building, hackathons, content creation, and customer development to build new innovative strategies. Carley holds a degree in Computer Science and Visual Art from Union College and an MBA in Design Strategy from California College of the Arts.

ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONSWhen you arrive at the American Museum of Natural History, head to 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Take one of the ramps on the side to the entrance. Once you enter the museum you will be directed by one of the staff/volunteers toward Kaufmann Theater where the event is taking place. Join us for New York City’s most famous and longest-running monthly tech event! This month we have partnered with the American Museum of Natural History’s BridgeUp: STEM program to bring you a showcase of amazing solutions built during the Hack the Deep hackathon that took place earlier this year on the weekend of February 9–11. Over 127 developers, alongside 30 high school students and four teachers, worked over a 24-hour period to build solutions for challenges posed by Museum scientists and researchers.The challenges’ areas of research included minuscule protists, the diversity of marine life in museum collections, the physical processes of ocean currents and eddies, and climate. The challenges were:1. Untold Stories of Women in Science: Help us tell the world about the prominent female scientists and explorers who chronicled natural history for the Museum by creating compelling interactive narratives and visualizations of stories, imagery, and data from AMNH.2. Iron Out the Kinks: Create tools to automate rendering 3D models of marine microbes from 2D cross-sections.3. The Eye of Maria: Create animations and interactive tools to understand the motion of sailing objects in the vicinity of a hurricane.4. Map the Collections: Georeference collections specimens to visualize expeditions and ecosystems in space and time. The program will include presentations from:High School Hackathon ProjectsProfessional Participant Hackathon Projects BridgeUP:STEM Internship Projects -Let’s Go LIGOA simulation of the migration of stellar black holes (sBHs) in an analytically modeled AGN disk using an augmented N-body code. Cons”R”vationA land cover change map of Kalina in the Solomon Islands as part of a study on the environmental factors influencing Herpetogramma hipponalis destruction of the sweet potato staple crop. Virus HuntingA pipeline to compute the GC percentage of genomic DNA sequences in order to identify viral sequences in the genome of the green alga Cymbomonas tetramitiformis. Neighborhood Plot PartyAn interactive, three-dimensional map of the solar neighborhood, focusing on nearby low-mass stars with known exoplanets Arrive at 6:30 pmProgram starts at 7:00 pmCommunity Ask & Offer and Networking Reception to follow the program! The Museum’s BridgeUP: STEM hackathon is a conduit for citizen science where our public participants create real tools and build solutions to real problems in scientific education, communication, and research.About BridgeUP: STEMBridgeUP: STEM is an ambitious initiative designed to bridge the gender and opportunity gaps in computational science for girls and young women as well as boys and girls from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds. Hosted at the Museum through generous support from the Helen Gurley Brown Revocable Trust, BridgeUP: STEM has developed a distinct identity in the landscape of computer science education by embedding programming in the context of scientific research and communication to support participants’ college and career goals.

Calling all Web Developers, UX/UI Designers, Graphic Designers, Project Managers, and lovers of video games: the Red Queen Hackathon 2018 is going to be an amazing opportunity for gamers to build incredible web apps on the Red Queen platform! We're teaming up with some awesome game developers to open up their game data just for you so you can create cool stuff like Damage Calculators, Interactive Maps, Gameplay Analysis Tools, and Communication Tools. You'll get data, art assets, and mentorship from the devs themselves and Red Queen's team to help you turn your imagination into reality. Team sizes can range from 1 - 6 people. Feel free to come alone, or with a pre-made team. Every complete app will be hosted on Red Queen's Marketplace at https://www.redqueen.us. In addition to showing off your skills and making money through your creations, you'll be able to participate in our challenges: Red Queen Challenges: General challenges that any apps have the potential to win Game Specific Challenges: Our Game Developer Partners will create challenges for teams who want to build for the Challenge-Specific Game. Sponsor Challenges: Our sponsors will create challenges for best use of their APIs/SDKs Food and Drink are provided. There will be plenty of space to get comfortable while you work. Feel free to bring a sleeping bag if you'd like to take a nap at some point! If you are a game developer who would like to partner for this event, please contact us directly so we can talk about including your game. There are multiple partnership opportunities available, including mentoring, API hosting, challenge creation, and the ability to have a table to show your game. Join our Discord! https://discord.gg/gmf3KXG Potential sponsors, please check out our sponsorship packet for more information about how sponsoring this Hackathon can benefit your organization! Games and Game Developer Partners: AVARIAvs by Juncture Media Hastilude by Ghost Crab Games Super Rock Blasters! by Quadtron Games Beyonder by Flying Nightbear Games more to come! Sponsors: