List of hackathons in Vista, United States in 2017

Stave Programming League, Presented by SPARK Students from all around San Diego County will be participating in this third annual programming league event.  Thanks to the generous sponsorship by Stave, this event is free of charge!  Space is limited to 12 teams, so sign up today! The league kicks off on Saturday, July 8 from 1 - 3 PM where students will build the foundation of the game.  The league is 6 weeks long and will conclude with a tournament on Saturday, August 19 from 9 AM to 2 PM.  Teams of 2-4 students ages 8 and up create a game, demo it, and code in a 1 hour Hackathon! T-shirt and lunch included - plus prizes for winning teams!   For more information, visit the SPARK Programming website HERE Registration Organize a team with 2-4 friends and/or family members.   Designate one parent as a volunteer coach, no experience needed, we will orient you at the kickoff event.  If you do not have a team, sign up now and leave the team name blank.  We will help you form a team at the kickoff event.  Sponsorship Three levels of sponsorship for this event are available.  To become a sponsor, CONTACT US.

Are you ready to have a Silicon Valley style A.I. Hackathon in San Diego? We are!!! Join the Machine Learning Society for a full weekend of hacking, data crunching and team building at San Diego's first Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Hackathon. We are expecting 130+ Data Scientists and over 1000+ Guests to attend. We invite technologists of ALL levels from Beginner to Advanced to join us. Spectate or Collaborate with Data Scientists to solve real world problems. Play with Drones / Robots / and other Autonomous Vehicles powered by AI. Attend Free Classes & Workshops(daily at 11am & 6pm): Class: Introduction to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence. Workshop: How to use Data Analytics for Business. Challenges will be announced globally during the kick off of the event, and attendees can pick one of the challenges to work on either by themselves or with a team. After two days of hacking and prototyping, teams have the option to showcase their projects on stage. Your local audience will pick 3 winners, one for each challenge, prizes TBD. We will be hosted at the ScaleMatrix (Launch Center) which will be providing free Data Center tours!   Meet our Venture Partners - Analytics Ventures Co-host - IEEE San Diego Section - BDSE   Cross-Promotional Partners

Designers, data scientists, neuroscientists, idea generators, and coders in the San Diego area! Are you passionate about artificial intelligence? Hackathon.com invites you to participate in the Global AI Hackathon - San Diego. As part of a global hackathon event, you'll work on your own, or collaborate with a team of like-minded individuals from your community. So sign up now and you'll get to work on an AI challenge to be announced...and compete for terrific prizes.

Are you ready to get your fingers on the pulse of a city and unleash your innovation with ubiquitous real-time data?  Earlier this year, the City of San Diego announced the world’s largest Internet of Things platform deployment to help the City improve community safety, reduce parking gridlock, recognize pedestrian patterns, and provide greater situational awareness, all while helping the City, businesses, and citizens enhance everyday life through insights and solutions built with real-time sensor data. Using Current, powered by GE’s CityIQ™, 3,200 intelligent nodes are being placed on streetlights throughout the City. As a participant in the Smart Cities San Diego Hackathon, you will not only compete for $3,500 in total prize money, you will also be one of the first developers to leverage and build Industrial Internet of Things applications powered by the Predix platform. Participants also get free access to CityIQ’s real-world datasets, Intelligent Cities APIs, engineering support, and developer resources during the hackathon. Join Cleantech San Diego, CyberTECH, City of San Diego, General Electric, AT&T, and Intel during San Diego Startup Week to explore how an application using real-time data from the thousands of CityIQ nodes throughout the City of San Diego will help solve problems with traffic, parking, public safety, urban planning, and environmental challenges. YOU BRING: Your laptop, skills, and ideas. Come with a collaborative, team-focused mindset and/or team-up in advance on social media via the #scsdhack hashtag. Whether you are a backend person, designer, entrepreneur, student, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend this event. Every group needs a good balance of talent and your development skills are needed! WE SUPPLY: Quick presentations and code samples that help to bootstrap your hacking, food to keep you going, and caffeine to keep you awake. We will have technical mentors to assist you in building faster, smarter, and with new tools. We will also have loaner hardware on-site for you to use in your solutions. EVENT SCHEDULE: Pre-Hackathon Workshop - June 21 6:00 pm - Workshop Beings Presentation of Hackathon Challenge Q&A Discussion 9:00 pm - Workshop Concludes Day 1 - June 22 6:00 pm - Kickoff Event  7:00 pm - Project Brainstorming  7:30 pm - Project Sharing  Project Execution  Day 2 - June 23 11:00 am - Judging Project Review  12:00 pm - Lunch Served  1:00 pm - Hackathon Concludes Lyft Promo Code:Get 15% off 2 rides to or from the Smart Cities San Diego Hackathon with code SDHACKATHON. PRIZES:  $3,500 in total prize money. Great prizes from General Electric, Intel, and CyberTECH. Submissions must include one or more of CityIQ™ Intelligent Cities APIs to be eligible for the competition. The hackathon prizes are experiential and geared towards accelerating you towards a successful business as well as expanding your network and industry knowledge. There will be prizes awarded in the following categories. Specific prizes will be announced closer to the event. Best IoT App Overall Best Smart City Hack Best Use of the Intel IoT Starter Kit  Hackathon winners will also be recognized at San Diego Startup Week's closing ceremony on June 24. DATA SOURCES: CityIQ™ Intelligent Cities APIs City of San Diego Open Data JUDGES: Kiva Allgood, GE Ventures Darin Anderson, CyberTECH Jason Anderson, Cleantech San Diego Austin Ashe, Current by GE Erik Caldwell, City of San Diego Eric Green, AT&T Maksim Pecherskiy, City of San Diego JUDGING CRITERIA: Apps will be judged based on the criteria below and weighted accordingly: 25% Weight - Ability to clearly articulate what your app does 25% Weight - Originality of idea 25% Weight - Technically creative and/or challenging implementation 25% Weight - Applicability to the City of San Diego’s unique challenge HACKATHON LEGAL: Hackathon Terms All participants are expcted to abide by the Hack Code of Conduct FAQ

Join IAC Eitanim groups from Los Angeles and San Diego for an overnight mini-Hackathon event! We'll start with a bonefire (Lag-Ba'Omer style), and continue to a night of innovation, entrepreneurship, and fun activities! As always, IAC Eitanim will bring you the Startup Nation attitude by tackling real-world problem with expert mentors. In collaboration with Tarbuton and Beth Jacob. 

2nd Annual Women Leading The Way A Women's History Exclusive! Historical Contributions of Women A LIVE S.T.E.M. Museum    You and your family are cordially invited to enrich your Sunday! May 7, 2017 Walkthrough Hours 12 Noon - 4pm FEATURING..... Conversation Reception With Local S.T.E.M. ExpertsLive S.T.E. M.  MuseumExhibition & PerformancesVideo GallerySpecial Presentations A Monologue Tribute from the play Ashbury Tree written over five years ago by the late Richard O. Jones will be presented by Martha Brantley Jackson, Director and Monica McMurtry, Actress. The play is a story about Henrietta Lacks.   Special Guest List Continues to Grow! You and your family will enjoy this unique event while learning about women who have made significant contributions to Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and other non traditional fields. Children will delight in seeing fellow students dressed as characters.  Get ideas for making the classroom more interactive and engaging using technology Scroll Up and Register Now! OUR PROUD PARTNERS AND SPONSORS Progressive OBGYN LJR Intellect Academy of the Arts   Proceeds from this event support SCHOLARSHIPS to Technology Programs for youth like our upcoming Drone Workshop. Other programs include: HACK THE WEB and CODE MY FUTURE.  Email Cynthia for details about these and other S.T.E.A.M. programs.  Let her know that you would like to be a sponsor. Read about our November 2014 Hackathon HERE  FAQs Is my registration/ticket transferrable? Yes. Since the registration is in your name, the person using the ticket only needs to mention that you gave her/him your ticket. Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? You are welcome to bring your printed ticket, however, it is not necessary.  Enjoy These Photos From The 1st Annual Event!

The Women’s Hackathon @ CSUSM is a bi-annual, 12-hour event that is open to high school girls and college women with varying background in computing technology. The term “hack” is used in the sense of exploratory programming, not its alternate meaning as unauthorized security breach to a computer system. Each event presents two challenges of local impact and asks student teams to propose and create computing technology solutions in the form of web-based or mobile applications. Students may come as a team or individuals interested in working with others at the event. Tech professionals serve as mentors and guide participants through the process of research, design, and development of their solutions. At the end of the event, teams present their solutions to judges from industry who in turn determine winners. Since its inaugural event in April 2014, the Hackathon has served over 250 young women from over 25 high schools and colleges in Southern California. For more information, please visit http://sandiegohackathon.org/.  The April 22 event appreciates funding from The Information and Communication Technologies & Digital Media Sector, California Community Colleges FAQs Do I need to be a Computer Science major or intend to major in Computer Science to participate? No. Creating effective computing technology solutions require talents from a diverse background. What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? The event will provide free parking at a designated area on campus. More details will be sent to registered participants directly. Two great mass transit options are available that can help you get to CSUSM with ease: the BREEZE and the SPRINTER. More information about these two options can be found at https://www.csusm.edu/guide/transit.html.  Limited fund may be available for reimbursing costs related to public transportation, gas, or a group of students sharing Uber rides. Please contact event organizer for more detail. Do I need to bring a computer to the event? Many participants in the past preferred their own laptops at the event but a computer will be available for those who do not bring one. How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Dr. Youwen Ouyang can be reached at ouyang@csusm.edu. Professor Sahar Mosley can be reached at smosleh@csusm.edu.

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 2017" on March 26th at the Urbanworkshop, 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, but 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. : If you need help finding your team members feel free to let us know and we can always look for like minded folks from our user group  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 project idea is approved 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 Azure IoT Starter Kit w/ Adafruit Feather HUZZAH by Adafruit:  https://www.adafruit.com/products/3032 Although the kit comes quite loaded, 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 for participation and your project for winning, we require you to use Azure IoT Hub as mandatory technology and any other two Microsoft Technologies, for example Visual Studio, Azure, Cortana or anything else you feel appropriate for your project. What will we not be able to provide: Although the urbanworkshop 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, etc that your project work may need, so we request you to bring your own. When will you announce winner: We have a panel of 3 judges, 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 Azure IoT Hub and atleast two other Microsoft Technologies, What is the prize: 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 and Evangelist Bret Stateham, 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 :) 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

YA KNOW WHAT'S HARD? Starting something new on your own! Join the Jewish Engagement Lab We can help you, while you help the community. This group inspires, encourages and supports Jewish innovation in San Diego.  FEBRUARY WORKSHOP: We talked about the importance of piloting last month, we'll workshop as a group several of our own Lab project founders ideas for pilots and answer their questions, challenge them with recommendations.  Volunteer to be our first Pitch RoundTable participants.email Jennie@startup18.org if you want to present your pilot idea at this meeting or the next. We will take up to 3 and allocate 15 minutes each to you. In addition, we'll talk about Covenant Foundation, Hadassah and new Natan Grants.  Deadlines for Covenant Foundation and Hadassah are Feb. 10 and 21 respectively.  New Natan Grants for projects dealing with Hate, Russian community programs and Books are in March. We'll talk about the nuances of each and answer questions you have about the Foundations and their focus and past grantees. MORE ON STARTUP18 AND PLANS IN 2017 5 Projects will receive $2500 grants each May 7th, 2017! WHAT:  A workshop for Jewish or Israeli project founders to help you launch a project to enrich Jewish life in San Diego or a public benefit nonprofit of any kind. Learn how to pilot your project, find funding, and increase your impact.  Get going and launch your idea this year! WHO: Jewish and/or Israeli project founders, pro bono coaches and/or donors.  WHY GET INVOLVED?  Meet other project founders dedicated to personal growth, improving our communities, and enriching Jewish life in San Diego. Pro bono coaches engage with members in the Jewish community leveraging your strengths, skills and experience.  Donors hear about innovative work that needs further nurturing and be a part of building a stronger and more engaged Jewish San Diego. WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?  3 Jewish Community projects will be selected by their peers involved in the process from January-May for grants sponsored by the Covenant Foundation.  Two additional projects led by Israeli-Americans or related to Israel will be selected at the Hackathon for grants sponsored by the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation.  To be eligible, projects must participate in some meaningful ways in either our Idea Slam on 1/8/2017, the Jewish Engagement Lab or small discussion circles leading up to the Hackathon on 5/7/2017.  Questions?  858-201-6094 - info@startup18.org - www.startup18.org SUPPORTED BYCovenant Foundation, PresenTense, the Adam and Gila Milstein Family Foundation IDEA SLAM & HACKATHON CO-HOSTS Tarbuton, Jewish Federation of San Diego County, Leichtag Foundation

Students, engineers, developers, programmers, scientists! You're invited to sign up to participate in the Big Data Hackathon, San Diego. You'll be challenged to design and build an app, platform, and/or technology that uses the provided datasets to deliver a compelling public health solution.