List of hackathons in Walnut Creek, United States in 2017

Students, professionals in Marin County! If you're interested in the use of technology to help solve health care issues in the county, then the County of Marin invites you to sign up to participate in Hack4Health: Design, Code, Build. Even though Marin County ranks as one of the healthiest in the state, some of your fellow residents are not so lucky! You'll be tasked with helping identify health challenges in the community, coming up with creative technology solutions and then designing, coding and building them.

Designers, back-end and front-end developers in San Francisco and the Bay Area! You're invited to sign up to participate in a Civic Hackathon - Building the First Police Accountability Platform. You'll be challenged to help finalize and perfect the Raheem Ai chatbot and interactive dashboard that lets individuals anonymously track and rate their experience with police officers. The hackathon output will be presented to a panel of city officials, activists, and law enforcement, followed by discussions on strategies for implementing Raheem Ai and similar police accountability platforms within local government.

Socially conscious analysts, statisticians, data scientists, coders, hackers, designers, and other humans in the Bay Area! DataKind SF Bay Area invites you to participate in DataKindSF DataDive. You'll be challenged to collaborate to help participating social change organizations do initial data analysis, exploration, and prototyping. Participating organizations at this DataDive include Concrn.org, Compassion at Work, SupplyBank (K to College), and Living Goods.

Founders, engineers, scientists, business hackers, or students! OneTraction invites you to sign up to participate in the Artificial Intelligence - Global Hackathon. The focus of this innovation event is artificial intelligence. Sign up as a team, or join one at the event.

Hackers and coders! Are you planning to attend the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 conference? You're invited to sign up for the hackathon that will be run in conjunction with the conference. You'll be challenged top create your own new and innovative approach to how individuals in the digital age can best analyze, visualize, and use the enormous amount and wide variety of personal data that we create.

Volunteers Needed for The Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley Hackathon!! Date/ time location:Friday, March 31st 2017: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM @ Smythe Clubhouse 2195 Cunningham Ave, San Jose, CA 95122 Overview:50 students from  BGCSV clubs will participate in teams of 4-5 students and complete 3 projects throughout the day. Each activity will last about 1 hour with a wrap up and rotation. Raffle tickets will be given to each student at each activity and more tickets will be distributed to the "winning" team. Dinner, snacks, t-shirt and training will be provided! Activities will include: Google Science Journal, DASH Robots, and Raspberyy Pi LED Lights Volunteer Roles: Group Mentor, Station Master and/or Guest Speaker (see flyer below) For more information please visit bgclub.org or contact Jordan @ jordan.arnold@bgclub.org Thank you!

Hackers and coders! Are you planning to attend the Personal Digital Archiving (PDA) 2017 conference? You're invited to sign up for the hackathon that will be run following the conference. In the hackathon, you'll be challenged to create your own new and innovative approach to how individuals in the digital age can best analyze, visualize, and use the enormous amount and wide variety of personal data that they create.

Take a dive into Django & Python with Girls in Tech! Django is a free and open source web application framework written in Python. A web framework is a set of components that helps you develop websites faster and easier. In this workshop, we will create a simple blog using Python and Django. You will learn the basics of Python, how to navigate the command line, and learn enough Django to deploy your own blog with it. We will be using the DjangoGirls tutorial as our guide. No prior experience with Python, Django, or the command line is expected.  Required Materials: 1) Install Python 3.52) If you don't already have a code editor of choice, download Sublime Text. Instructions for installing python can be found here:https://tutorial.djangogirls.org/en/installation/#install-python Sublime Text can be downloaded here: https://www.sublimetext.com/3 *The $15 fee is a reservation ticket. You will be refunded the entire amount upon check-in at 9 AM on the day of the event.* Agenda: 9am-12pmSetting up IntroductionInstallationCode EditorIntroduction to PythonWhat is Django?Start building our blog12 pm lunch 1pm - 5pmContinue building our blogDeploy the blog About the Instructors: Linda is a UI Engineer at We Also Walk Dogs, Inc. (ActionKit.com), where she works on tools used by progressive organizations using Python and Django. She enjoys sharing knowledge, and hosts a Women Who Code meetup in Berkeley every other week as well as countless hangouts on CodeBuddies.org, an open-sourced study groups platform and Slack community she started in 2014. She graduated from Duke University with a double major in Public Policy and Economics, loves recording violin arrangements and participating in hackathons, and is probably a Hufflepuff. Nico is a software engineer at Coffee Meets Bagel. He was born in Cyprus and studied Computer Science at Imperial College London in UK. He uses Python and Django everyday at CMB to develop features, fix bugs, and contribute towards having a scalable platform. He is working at a dating app because he really enjoys solving complex problems and making people's lives easier and better. Daniel is a Software Engineer at Coffee meets Bagel, he is a passionate Python developer and has attended multiple Python events such as EuroPython, Pycon Italy (where Daniel is from) and Django Under the Hood. Daniel is also one of the organizers of SF Python, the San Francisco Python meetup featuring more than 8000 members. Daniel is also an Open Source contributor, he contributed to Django's Meta API during Google's Summer of Code program in 2014.

Are you looking for an internship or full-time opportunities? Do you want to know what skill sets you need to build to be successful in the tech industry? Join us for a career workshop to learn more about the data science and software engineering! We are featuring 3 Berkeley Alumni who have worked in these fields:   Andy Chen Multiple Open Source Contributor Winner of 9 Hackathon Prizes CTO @Yeah Education         Jerry Chen Product Management@Upstart  

Blockchain developers, engineers, hackers! Do you have a passion for building blockchain solutions? Unbank.Ventures invites you to participate in BlockHack SF. You'll collaborate with the best-of-the-best blockchain techies to conceive and develop blockchain-based apps. Showcase your skills and compete for the Bitcoin cash prize.