List of hackathons in Vista, United States in 2016

Come to this hackathon to help make the city of San Diego one of the greenest and most connected cities in the world. Register for this San Diego Smart City Hackathon Kickoff & Info Session, to learn more about the format, specific objectives, challenges, tools and data sets for solving real city problems based on input from multiple city departments. The target is to come up with original creative solutions to difficult city problems, which require wireless sensors and a lot of data. Something, which has not been done before. Come to this info session to take part in this event and learn more about the hackathon!

This is a hackathon where you can turn your crazy ideas into real stuff. Startup UCSD is giving you the opportunity to hack away at a particular problem with a particular end-user in mind and coming up with a solution in the form of a product or service that people would actually want. It is the time to bring out those ideas, to add the finishing touches to current projects, and to create something completely new. There is no specific theme. You are open to work on any good idea!

​This is a 12-hour event open to all female high school and college students to come and work on websites, games, or mobile apps that address a real world challenge. There is no prior programming experience required! programming is allowed until the day of the event. ​Projects will be judged in 4 categories: Appropriateness to Theme, User Experience & Functionality, Originality & Impact, and Technical Difficulty.

Come to this hackathon to help make the city of San Diego one of the greenest and most connected cities in the world. Register for this San Diego Smart City Hackathon Kickoff & Info Session, to learn more about the format, specific objectives, challenges, tools and data sets for solving real city problems based on input from multiple city departments. The target is to come up with original creative solutions to difficult city problems, which require wireless sensors and a lot of data. Something, which has not been done before. Come to this info session to take part in this event and learn more about the hackathon!

Code for the Kingdom Hackathon is bringing together technologists, entrepreneurs, creative’s, and anyone with a love for technology and faith, to developing solutions for real-life society, community, families, and spiritual life issues. Providing the opportunity to use your talent and be the change that is needed and helping release the oppressed, teaching God’s Word, healing the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and supporting the church. Tackling challenges with 21st century technologies to serve God’s Kingdom and encourage Christian innovators. A Nashville Area judging panel will choose the awards for best projects.

Join the AT&T Mobile App Hackathon to hack and build apps/mobile apps, get fed, compete for prizes across different categories and most importantly: meet new people and scout for teammates to work on new or current projects. There will be experts from AT&T and the local community onsite to assist with your development.

Are you a maker? did you always wanted to showcase the million dollar idea you always had? Are you ready to build something innovative? Are you ready to take your idea to next level and showcase to the world? Now is the time, and here is your chance SoCal Microsoft Azure user group is hosting "Creative Days 2016" on Feb 20th at Santiago Canyon College, Its one of its kind IoT Hackathon Event with support from Microsoft How can I participate: There are many ways, If you are looking to participate as competitor here is what you have to do, Participate as Competitor team a)  Register via EventBrite. Make sure to choose “Participating Team” as your ticket type, This is a paid ticket, don’t worry we will refund the fee on the day of event as far as you physically show up to participate., space is limited, do not delay!! b)  Once you register : Fill up this form and submit your project c)  Form your team. Important: We will on the event day add one of the best student from Santiago Canyon College to your team to assist you in your project, its upto you to use him/her as your team resource d)  Start Working: You don’t have to wait for the event day to start, you can start coding part of your project or assembly as soon as your now Participate as Volunteer We appreciate your support for the community and the event, We need your help. On the event day, pre event and post event. If you want to volunteer your time, please register via EventBrite. Make sure to choose “Volunteer” as your ticket type, and will get in touch with you. Participate as Viewer Well there is nothing more fun to just hang around, network with your other Industry pros, makers and really just to see all the excitement building live at the event, Make sure you register via EventBrite. Make sure to choose “RSVP” as your ticket type and be ready to be part of this exciting event. What hardware/ software to use: Well this is upto you, we will provide each participating team with following 1)  Microsoft IoT Pack for Raspberry Pi 2 - w/ Raspberry Pi 2 by Adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/windows10iotpi2 Although the kit comes quite loaded, we have some more hardware at our disposal but as you can imagine we cannot get all the hardware your project may require so we request you to bring more hardware as your project demands. You are free to use any hardware you like and not restrict yourself to the kit we will provide. What software: Again this is purely your choice, we do not force you to use one software or other but to qualify your project for winning, we require you to use any two Microsoft Technologies, for example Visual Studio, Azure, Azure IoT, or anything else you feel appropriate for your project. What will we not be able to provide: Although the college facility is very nice and the lab setup is more than ideal setup for incubation style projects like yours, we have ample power points provided, and environment for you to succeed. we will not be able to provide you with any electronic hardware like soldering iron, electric wires, sure we have a good supply of jumper cables etc but not specific hardware your project may need, so we request you to bring your own. When will you announce winner: We have a panel of 4 judges, very reputed names in IoT world, and we expect to announce winner same day, the judging will be based on strict criteria and one of them is of course use of atleast two Microsoft Technologies, What is the prize: Oh my, now you ask, though for your million dollar idea a monetary prize will never do justice, so we could come up with something you may like even more. Winning team will get a 15 min air time to showcase their project on world famous channel9 in an interview format with Your local MVP Vishal Saxena, this as you can imagine is a game changer, having this advantage will give you and your project instant visibility to entire world, will more than few million visits a month if you are serious about your project Channel9 is the place to be. We also have another special prize, we will showcase winning project on Hackster.io as winning project for SoCal Creative Day event, both prizes are support and backed by Microsoft so this is something you will cherish and brag about for long J How will I submit my code and design: Your code belongs to you, and so does your project design and we seek you to figure a license that you want to use to make it open source to be shared with rest of the community and world, if this sounds all Greek to you, we can help, reach out to Vishal(Vishalishere@msn.com)   What if?: Q) I do want to participate but do not have a team yet. A) No idea is small, it’s worth trying, if you believe in your idea, we can help you form a team with some of the very bright students to work with you, and can even connect you with other professionals from our connected groups, with many technology experts available. Q) I do not show up at event. A) It will be sad. In case you were participating team, and no one shows up from your team to participate, we will not be able to refund your participation fee. Q) I have more questions A) Reach out to your SoCal Microsoft Azure Organizing Team or Vishal (Vishalishere@msn.com)   Sincerely, Your SoCal Microsoft Azure Organizing Team

ProtoHack exists to show non-coders that they can create something amazing from nothing. We empower and enable the non-technical community with the tools, knowledge and connections that will help bring their idea to life and visually communicate it through prototyping. How does it work? No coding is required. Instead you will use prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes and anything else you can think of to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage. (We’ve put together the best tools for non-coders, so don’t fret if you’ve never prototyped.) Although we encourage you to try some prototyping tools prior to attending ProtoHack, we will begin ProtoHack with optional educational workshops on how to use some of the top prototyping tools. You can choose to prototype alone or form a team with other participants and decide on an idea together. Teams can be up to 5 people. You will have 9 hours to produce a prototype. (Remember, you are creating a lean prototype of your idea and it doesn't need to be perfect. The focus should be on visually showing what the idea is.) At the end, you or your team will present on stage to a panel of judges consisting of developers and investors to get feedback. Looking for the Agenda? Click here Interested in speaking at ProtoHack? Are you a non-technical founder or entrepreneur?  Learn more about ProtoHack and how to become our Austin Keynote speaker by emailing us at info@protohack.org. ProtoHack is a 501(c)(3) and cannot pay their speakers.  What's in it for me?  ProtoHack will be a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually. Learn how to effectively use industry leading tools to put together a prototype and visually communicate your idea. Meet other like-minded people with various backgrounds in design, business, marketing, product management and more who are all excited and passionate about building something.  Become a better product person with a deeper understanding of UX. Exclusive access to over $200 in prototyping tools and sponsor related goodies. We will also invite developers who are looking for new projects, to come and watch the presentations so they have a no-pressure opportunity to contact you if they’re interested in helping you actually code your prototype.  Learn more about ProtoHack by visiting our website. National Sponsors            Looking for the Agenda? Click here Looking for the Agenda? Click here Interested in speaking at ProtoHack? Are you a non-technical founder or entrepreneur?  Learn more about ProtoHack and how to become our Austin Keynote speaker by emailing us at info@protohack.org. ProtoHack is a 501(c)(3) and cannot pay their speakers.  What's in it for me?

The Basement's student-centric mission is to encourage the spirit of UC San Diego students by helping and educating them in the startup business process. This time, they want to offer students a chance to participate in a software hackathon sponsored by Webroot, the Entrepreneur Challenge, UCSD Career Services Center and IEEE. Undergraduate and graduate students get 12 hours to make something out of nothing. Good luck!

Develop an app idea for a car! The App-O-Motive hackathon will introduce you to the latest cutting edge tools, and fellow attendees and mentors. Bring your laptop, skills & ideas. Whether you are a backend person and code in Ruby/PHP/.NET or are a designer and only work with Illustrator, you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed!