List of hackathons in Watsonville, United States in 2017

Student hackers in Silicon Valley and Santa Clara County! You're invited to sign up to participate in the West Valley Hackathon 2017. You'll be given a challenge theme such as “When 2-D meets 3-D” and then be required to design and build an app based on your given theme. You will collaborate with other student hackers on a team and present your project to a jury.

What dances, eats, and lights up? Animals you create in the Robot Petting Zoo!  Come spend a very hands-on evening learning to design, build, and program your own robot animal with the Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Find out how you can host your own Robot Petting Zoo & Makeathon anywhere. No coding experience necessary--Absolute beginners are welcome! A Hummingbird Robotics Kit will be provided for you to use during the workshop, but if you want to take your kit home with you, be sure to purchase "Workshop + Hummingbird Base Kit" at checkout.  Do you already have a Hummingbird robotics kit? Feel free to bring it with you!  Please bring a laptop with Snap! software downloaded: http://hummingbirdkit.com/learning/snap-programming  The Robot Petting Zoo (RPZ) & Makeathon engages students and educators in friendly making, coding, and design with a creative twist on the traditional hackathon. During an RPZ Makeathon, student groups create animatronic animals while learning empathic design thinking, teamwork, and engineering using cardboard, robotics kits, code, and craft supplies. They then bring their animals together for a Robot Petting Zoo Showcase where the public, and especially young children, can interact with them.  RPZ's are transforming robotics education by engaging the disengaged, breaking stereotypes about who can be computer scientists, engineers, and technology innovators, and attracting more people into creative and technical learning in a more accessible, friendly way. Have questions about the workshop? Please contact Katie@birdbraintechnologies.com  Parking $5 Flat Rate at San Jose Convention Center. See Parking Map.

Open-source enthusiasts -- programmers, designers, QA types, UX designers, and other techies! Register for the Online Collaboration Tree Hackathon. You'll get to collaborate on the open-source Collaboration Tree (cTree) web platform for community think tanks. Come network and build your resume, while working with like-minded techies to help advance the cTree project by helping create an open-source tool for online collaboration around specific topics or goals. Visit the expert hackathon advice pagefor answers to your questions on participatiing!

Fintech hackers! The Symphony Software Foundation invites you to participate in the Open Innovation Challenge. This two-month long virtual Fintech hackathon challenges you to develop a bot, app or integration for the Symphony platform. Showcase your skills and compete for prizes in a number of categories, including Best Integration and Best Open Innovation.

Event Summary  herScript Hacks is an annual regional hackathon meant to engage and excite the tech community by creating technological solutions to real-world problems. This year’s herScript hackathon will be an agTech themed hackathon for college level students interested in AgTech. Event Vibe herScript will create an environment that fosters innovation. Each team will be encouraged to think outside of the box and their imagination will have no bounds. Attendees will feel as if they are in an AgTech incubator. A trialogue between students, facebook engineers, and agriculture experts will feel natural, and each conversation will help all parties form relationships and better understand agriculture. Registration Requirements  Floor: Be familiar with Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures Ceiling: It doesn't exist. Whether you're a student, first-year engineer, or senior engineer, feel free to take the weekend off and hack with us! FAQs Is this open to any gender?  Yes!  Do I have to be a student to attend?  No, we do have a floor defined, though. It would be helpful if you know OOP and data structures or have experience creating a software program. Whether you're a student, first-year engineer, or senior engineer, feel free to take the weekend off and hack with us!  What can I bring into the event? 1) Grit + Creativity  2) Laptop 3) Sleeping bag 4) Photo ID Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event? Bring a form of identification to confirm your admission into the event. There are no age requirements; if you know object oriented programming and feel as if you can develop a prototype solution, please register.  What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event? We encourage that you carpool with people that you know will be attending. You may want to route to the parking structure next door.  Monterey Street Parking Garage 20 E Market St, Salinas, CA 93901 Since it's 2017, this might be more helpful:  https://goo.gl/maps/4SggZx22Xak Is parking free?  Bad news: Not all of if. Good news: It's very inexpensive and we are covering 4 hours! (If you let us know you need a 4 hour voucher from us) The Monterey Parking Garage charges $4.00 for a full day pass and $2.00 to stay overnight until noon, and $0.50 per hour.  We do, however, have a free voucher to cover your last four hours (noon - 4pm on Sunday).  If you take a voucher from us, you will only have to pay $6.00. If you don't then you will have to to pay $8.00. How can I contact the organizer with any questions? Contact herScript.io@gmail.com. Please title the email with "herScript Hacks Eventbrite Question" Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event? No, just your ID with your name and picture. You can bring your confirmation email if you would like.   Is it ok if the name on my ticket or registration doesn't match the person who attends? No, please make sure your name on the ID matches the name that you submitted on your registration form. If you need to change it, please contact the organizer of the event.  Can I sign up with a team? / How will teams be formed? No, but don't worry all teams will be self-formed on day one. Reference the itinerary on Saturday from 11:00a-12:00p for more information on this.  Team sizes will range from 3-4. We will allow larger teams if you can justify the size.  I don't want to participate, but I would still like to attend, can I? Yes, you can, but on Sunday. We will have our participants demonstrate their work on Sunday, April 30th from 1:00p - 3:00p. Feel free to attend during these hours! Please bring a friend to join you.  Where is the code of conduct? It's currently being authored, but just follow the golden rule and you'll be on our good list! Event Itinerary *Subject to change Saturday, April 29th  9:00a - 10:00a Check in (Coffee and pastries)   10:00a - 11:00a Agriculture Expert Series       In this segment, you will hear a few words from agriculture experts. They will talk about the impact that agriculture has, the problems that farmers are facing as an industry.   11:00a - 12:00p Team formation + Open trialogue between mentors, farmers, and participants       In this segment, the floor will be open for participants to speak to farmers about different operational problems they face to inspire an idea. Facebook engineers will also be present to help you think of a way you can produce a software solution. The floor will be divided into 5 - 10 clusters. Each cluster will have a mentor and a farmer. It will be a fluid experience, as participants can float from cluster to cluster until they find an idea they are interested in hacking. Students who wish full autonomy on their project idea do not need to participate with the purpose of finding an idea. Instead, they can use the time to pitch their idea to get feedback and valid the industry need of their idea.  12:00p - 1:00p Lunch  1:00p - 5:00p  Finalize Project Idea + Mock up + Development plan       During this time, you can begin developing a development plan for the evening.  5:00p - 6:00p Dinner          Saturday 6:00p - Sunday 9:00a Hack        During this time, you will receive help from a facebook engineer as needed.  Sunday, April 30th 9:00a - 10:00a Breakfast  10:00a - 12:00p Last minute work + Presentation creation + Demo practice      During this time, each team will be given a final presentation template. Each presentation will be planned to take no longer than 3-minutes, including a demo if possible.  12:00p - 1:00p Lunch  1:00p - 3:00p Public Showcase       During this time, each team will present to the panel of judges and compete for a grand prize (soon to be mentioned).  Event Partners  Western Growers Innovation Center Western Growers, founded in 1926, is a trade association of California, Arizona and Colorado farmers who grow, pack, and ship almost 50% of our nation's produce. To help our members do more with less, Western Growers launched the Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology (WGCIT) in Salinas, CA. The Center was created to help identify industry priorities, discover technologies to address those priorities, set up testing, facilitate industry feedback and communicate progress to California, Arizona, and Colorado fresh produce farmers. Facebook Founded in 2004, Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them. Google IgniteCS The goal of igniteCS is to encourage undergraduate students who have an interest in computer science, diversity, and helping others to apply what they’re learning in the classroom through mentoring. We provide funding, resources, and support while student groups develop a program, find a faculty advisor, and take it into their local community.

San Mateo County Community College District students! Cañada College Computer Science Club invites you to sign up to participate in the Cañada College (#ColtsHacks) - Hackathon v1.0. This coding competition is open to all students in the district -- regardless of your level of coding experience. If you're attending Skyline College, Cañada College or CSMAll, come and learn, come and collaborate, come and compete for great prizes.

Coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, and technologists in the Bay Area! You're invited to participate in the NASA Space Apps Challenge Silicon Valley - West Coast. You'll be part of a 48-hour global collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration. The theme will be solutions for the Earth -- and challenges will involve robotics, data visualization, hardware, design, and much more! You can select one of the following challenges: 1. The Earth and Us, 2. Planetary Blues, 3. Warning! Danger Ahead, 4. Our Ecological Neighborhood, and 5. Ideate and Create.

Girls in Tech special price for admission to ProtoHack, a code-free hackathon! Have great ideas, but don't know how to code? This hackathon is for you! ProtoHack is a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually. During ProtoHack you’ll learn how to use the best prototyping tools in the industry, network with like-minded people with various backgrounds, become a better product person, and receive access to prototype tools, learning communities, and other prizes just for attending (up to $300-400 value!) Prizes: - The winning team will receive full access for life to the Founder’s Suite, a portfolio of management software tools or “tools to get startup sh*t done as they like to say.” - $5000 worth of development or design services in mobile/web or cloud technologies courtesy of EI Group International. - $3000 worth of services from Metascope including MVP, Mockups, Logo, Digital Marketing. About ProtoHack: ProtoHack is a group of adventurers, dreamers and conceptualists who have successfully transitioned from wantrepreneurs to bona fide entrepreneurs. United by their shared struggles in business and bringing a great idea to life, ProtoHack is a culmination of those shared experiences—both good and bad—and a carefully crafted experience that gives anyone with a good idea and an ounce of ambition the platform upon which to do something with it.

ProtoHack exists to show entrepreneurs that they can create something amazing from nothing without having to write a single line of code. We empower and enable the non-technical community with the tools, knowledge, and know-how that will help bring their idea to life and visually communicate it through prototyping.  The theme of this protohack will be AR/VR! ProtoHack requires no coding. Instead, you’ll be using prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes and anything else you think of to visually demo your idea on stage. Competitors will work in teams (up to 5) or solo. ProtoHack is a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually. During ProtoHack you’ll learn how to use the best prototyping tools in the industry, network with like-minded people with various backgrounds, become a better product person, and receive access to prototype tools, learning communities, and other prizes just for attending (up to $300-400 value!) Still not convinced? Check out our FAQ, read more about how it works, or contact us. About the event host:  DAQRI is disrupting technology that empowers you to visualize and interact with data in a completely new way, bridging physical and digital worlds with revolutionary 4D experiences.                                                                               Judges Noopur Gupta (Senior Product Manager @ LYTRO)  Noopur Gupta is a product leader and specializes in new product development and launch. She has 12+ years of experience with engineering and research background. She has worked with innovative products using bleeding edge tech at DAQRI, Samsung. She has built and launched applications using Augmented Reality, Indoor Maps, Outdoor maps, Localization, Analytics, Computer Vision for wearables, mobile and web platforms. Recently, she has successfully launched AR apps for the flagship product DAQRI Smart Helmet and Glasses. Specialties: New product development and launch, Product Management, Leadership skills Domain: Augmented Reality, Virtual reality, Indoor maps, Localization, Computer Vision, 3D, Wearables, Mobile and Web. Nitin Pachisia (Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures) Entrepreneur. Investor. Founded Unshackled Ventures to help immigrant founded startups succeed faster. Unshackled Ventures is a pre-seed stage fund to invest in and support immigrant-founded startups in the US. We use capital, a hands-on approach, large engaged network, and an innovative funding model to help founders turn their ideas into reality. Christopher Peri (Director of AR/VR in Samsung) Christopher had worked on 3D and VR starting with the VFX1 back in 1995 including teaching a class on VRML. His master thesis at UC Berkeley, 'Spatial Perception in Virtual Environments: Visual Cognition Gain with Head Mounted Displays' focused on how spatial perception and memory are improved using a HMD. This work was a foundation for his Ph.D. in Spatial Communication. His professional work includes creating many virtual worlds using VRML and Java and then employed those skills to dynamic web content using Flash. Later in his career he focused on project management to company leadership including 3 years as CTO at VentureBeat. Currently Christopher has returned to his roots working at Samsung Research Lab working on mobile strategy and business development for various VR/AR projects. Steven Kan (Head of Global Strategy, AR and VR at Google) Twitter: @kansteven Linkedin: linkedin.com/kansteven WeChat: stevenlkan As Google's head of AR and VR Global Strategy, Steven Kan is responsible for identifying new AR and VR growth opportunities and ensuring Google is well positioned for long-term success in the AR and VR industries. Steven joined Google in 2011 and helped launch and grow Google Drive, Chrome OS, and On Hub, consumer products which are now used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In 2014 he took over new business development responsibilities for Android, IoT, and VR where he managed technology and content partnerships for products such as Google Cardboard, the world's largest VR platform. Before joining Google, Steven was Vice President of Business Operations at Apture (acquired by Google). Prior to Apture, Steven was with venture firms Clearstone and Redpoint where he helped incubate multiple companies including the online video technology company Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper). Steven began in online media at Overture (acquired by Yahoo) where he helped start and grow the contextual advertising business to a $100 million run rate. Steven studied Applied Physics at Yale and has an MBA from UCLA Anderson where he was Venture Fellow. He lives in Northern California and can be found sailing the Bay or skiing in Lake Tahoe with his wife and two children. Product Mentors Wenyi Zhao (Director of Vision and Sensor Group at DAQRI) Wenyi is a problem solver, inventor, and technologist with solid skills on computer vision, sensing and visualization. He has extensive research, development and management experience. Since March 2014, He joined DAQRI to help push the boundaries of Augmented Reality to fuel the next round of industrial revolution. Indu Ancha (Product Designer @ Google) Derek Bender (Product Designer at Uber) Specialties: mobile design, art direction, ui design, ux design, ios & android design Chelsea Kim (Product Designer at Facebook)                                                                          Pitch Mentors

Developers, designers and data scientists in the Bay Area! CMU Emirates Innovation Lab invites you to participate in the Emirates Travel Hackathon. In this 24-hour coding marathon, you will be challenged to build innovative new travel-centric web and mobile apps. This year's theme is ‘inspiring insights and personalized customer experiences with data, machine learning, and AI’.