List of hackathons in Watsonville, United States in 2019

High school students in the Bay Area! Bananium Labs Incorporated invites you to participate in the 24-hour LaunchHacks I high school hackathon. Come with a team of up to four students -- or join one at the event. You'll get to apply and improve your design and development skills, as well as learn the business and presentation skills required to pitch your project and more.

Launch Hacks is a 24 hour, 200-participant hackathon hosted by Monta Vista High School students. The event brings Bay Area high school students together to convert ideas into reality. In addition to helping students improve their design and development skills, they also get support to help them improve business and presentation skills -- not just to pitch a successful project, but also to inspire the next generation of inventors, entrepreneurs, and leaders. Food, workshops, prizes, and swag will be provided to all participants for free!

Special Thanks to Showdown, Blockchain Gamer, and Mousebelt! Hackathon Prizes: 1st Place $1,000 cash prize for team by Mousebelt Meeting with Atari Meeting with QTUM Pre-sale Atari VCS console Meeting with Draper Associates, Draper Dragon,  and Draper U Ventures $6,000 scholarship to Draper University for non-DU students (each individual team member) One day free pass at Hero City (each individual team member) One hour free gameplay at Hero Hangout (each individual team member) 2nd Place $3,000 scholarships for non DU students (each individual team member) One day free pass at Hero City (each individual team member) One hour free gameplay at Hero Hangout (each individual team member) 3rd Place $1,000 scholarships for non DU students (each individual team member) One day free pass at Hero City (each individual team member) One hour free gameplay at Hero Hangout (each individual team member) FAQ What is the challenge? The challenge is to build an application on QTUM that inspires the future of gaming and entertainment. While we want you to build something that is tailored to the above sentence, participants are free to build whatever they want. The judging and prizes will be based off of the challenge listed. What ticket should I get? All tickets are free because we want anyone interested to come. Choose what type of person you are based on the tickets listed. If you aren't any one of them, please choose the most relevant one. This just gives us an idea on who we can expect to come. What level of experience do I need to attend? Absolutely none! Although it's nice if you have some prior experience we do not require any experience to attend the hackathon. We want everyone and anyone interested to attend. Bring your friends as well! Do I need a team to attend? No, you do not need a team and don't need to know anyone! We will have plenty of time to meet people and form teams before the hackathon officially begins.  Draper University is happy to announce its first public hackathon, the HEROthon, sponsored by QTUM with special guest Sickick. By getting involved you will be joining hackers, product developers, marketers, business leaders and Draper University entrepreneurs in reshaping the future of decentralized gaming and entertainment. The HEROthon is held simultaneously with Draper University's Spring Pre-Accelerator program. Challenge  Build an application on QTUM that inspires the future of gaming and entertainment Details Join a Draper University entrepreneur in hacking and pitching within 40 hours. You must build on the QTUM blockchain. Teams will have a chance to pitch to Draper U Ventures, Draper Associates, and the QTUM team. Winning teams get prizes and will be published on Draper University and QTUM social channels. Must be over 18 to participate. QTUM Workshops and other opportunities to learn Mentors available to help you with your project Prizes given to winning teams Snacks available throughout the day QTUM QTUM is defining the blockchain economy. Qtum is an open sourced public blockchain platform, leveraging the security of UTXO while enabling multiple virtual machines including EVM and the revolutionary x86 VM. Qtum is PoS based and boasts a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) allowing specific blockchain settings to be modified by making use of smart contracts. For instance, the block size of Qtum can be increased without the need of a hard fork. Decentralized Governance Protocol Abstract Account Layer x86 Virtual Machine Global peer to peer network Wallet ecology Development resources For developer resources and more information visit: qtum.org Sickick With over 1.5 million followers, Sickick is quickly building his name and presence in the industry. His blend of musical genres creates an atmospheric, otherworldly auditory experience that so many fans have come to adore. The iconic mask represents his deepest and darkest of fears. Wearing this mask as a symbol allows him to overcome his fears and befriend his demons. Sickick uses his newfound confidence as a way to inspire his fans, known as the Sickick Army, to pursue their dreams and face their fears. With his increasingly populated touring calendar, Sickick continues to spread his message around the world: Everyone has a dark side, find the beauty in yours. Recommended that everyone new to QTUM goes to (qtum.org/en/developer) reads the whitepaper, goes through the source code, and goes through the Developer's guide. Schedule *Schedule is subject to change Friday, April 19th 4PM - 6PM | Check-in at Draper University - Networking and Games 6PM | Opening Ceremony - QTUM Presentation 7PM | Networking and Team Formation 9PM | HEROthon Hacking Begins! 9:30PM | QTUM Presentation Saturday, April 20th (Hacking all Day!) 12AM | Midnight Snack 9AM | QTUM Presentation 3PM | Draper University Pitch Presentation Sunday, April 21st 12AM | Midnight Snack 12:30PM | Submission Deadline 1PM - 3PM | Round 1 Pitching (3 min pitches) 2:30PM | Doors Open to Spectator Ticket 3:00PM | Closing Ceremony - Announce Top 10 Teams 3:15PM | Round 2 Judging (4 min pitches) 4:30PM | Winners Announced 4:45PM - 7PM | BBQ and Pool Party If you have any further questions please email alex@draperuniversity.com  Looking forward to hacking!

Stanford University students from all degree programs and departments! If you're passionate about clean energy, then you're invited to participate in the first-ever Stanford Cleantech Challenge -- clean energy hackathon! This is not a traditional computer science hackathon. You'll have 24 hours to develop a creative, innovative solution proposal to a challenge of your choice, drawn from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, finance, and policy. Collaborate and compete for cash prizes awarded to the top winners!

High school students -- 13 or older -- in the San Francisco Bay Area! If you're interested in natural language processing -- think Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant -- then you're invited to participate in LingHacks II. LingHacks II is the second iteration of the world's first computational linguistics hackathon for high schoolers. Come with a team of up to 4 people -- or join one at the event. You will be challenged to collaborate with a team to design and build a software project that integrates computational linguistics and solves a scientific or social problem.

Welcome to the SONiC/SAI Pre-Summit Workshop and Hackathon. During the workshop, we will have technical talks and a one-day hackathon on SONiC. A laptop is required for hackathon. We will have 1 hour training on how to install the Virtual Switch with SONiC image on your laptop and how to use it. Participants may team with up others. Attendees will vote for the winning team at the end of the hackathon.  Agenda Tuesday, March 12 9:30 – 10:00 - BREAKFAST SOCIAL 10-10:10 – OPENING AND WELCOME - Sadaf Fardeen, LinkedIn 10:10 – 10:30 – KEYNOTE - Zaid Kahn, LinkedIn 10:30 – 11:00 - "SONiC OS Virtualization and Data Plane Emulation Work" - Yongfeng Liu, Alibaba 11:05 - 11:35 - "SONiC in Microsoft Azure: Enabling Mission Critical Applications" - Alberto Gonzalez Prieto and Weixi Chen, Microsoft 11:40 - 12:10 - "SONIC Extension Infrastructure" - Matty Kadosh, Mellanox 12:15 - 12:45 - "Using programmable dataplanes to transform network system high availability" - Kumaresh Perumal, Barefoot 12:45 – 1:30 – LUNCH 1:30 - 2:00 - "Developer`s Overview of Sonic", - Praveen Chaudhary, Linkdedin 2:00 - 2:30 - "Opportunities and Obstacles for Open Source Networking" - Alley Hasan and Sandeep Madhavan, Dell 2:30 - 3:00 -  "Cloud-grade Routing as a Micro-service for Open Networking Platforms" - Vinay Nallamothu, Juniper 3:00 – 3:15 – BREAK 3:15 – 3:45 – "Using NBI images for SONiC system on Cisco Platforms" - Ashoka Kallappa and Jiahua Wang, Cisco 3:45 – 4:15 – "SONiC unit test and function test enhancement" - Larry Ho, Edgecore 4:15 – 4:25 – HACKATHON INTRO - Sadaf Fardeen, LinkedIn 4:25 – 4:30 – BREAK 4:30 – 5:30 – System Setup Instructions and Team up 5:30 PM - DISPERSE Wednesday, March 13 8:00am – 4:00pm – HACKATHON (Breakfast included) 12:00 - 1:00 - LUNCH 4:00 - 5:00 - HACKATHON PRESENTATION AND AWARD Instructions for Hackathon: Put on your thinking caps, team up with friends, and get ready to be the geek coder!! As a part of SONiC Workshop we are organizing a Hackathon for SONiC. Here are more details of the event. Feel free to reach out with questions if any. Rules 1. Participate alone or in teams up to a size of 4. 2. Team up with anyone in the community. 3. Free to choose any idea as long as it is useful for SONiC. Some suggested areas: test framework, debugging, performance improvement, standard interfaces, Monitoring. 4. Execute on a virtual switch or a physical switch. 5. Hackathon begins at 4PM on 12th March and ends at 4 PM on 13th March. You are free to work at home or hotel during this period and come back at 4 PM for final presentation. 6. Participants from remote/video conferencing can also join. 7. Final presentation at 4PM on 13th March includes a working demo of 7-10 min. 8. Bring your own laptop for development. 9. Development in any programming language is fine as long as it can integrate with SONiC ecosystem. 10. Use of any off the shelf tools and package is allowed as long as it has appropriate license for use with SONiC. Instructions 1. Prepare your laptop for virtual switch based development by following instructions given here: https://github.com/Azure/sonic-mgmt/blob/master/ansible/doc/README.testbed.VsSetup.md 2.Reach out to community and form a team before the event. Awards 1. Three winning teams to be chosen. $1000 per team.   - Zeus Hacker: Award for most difficult project   - Athena hacker:  Award for best idea   - Prometheus hacker: Award for best presentation 2. Judging committee consists of Senior Engineering leaders from SONiC community and OCP    - Haiyong Wang, Senior Director, Alibaba Group   - Lihua Yuan, Partner Developer Manager, Microsoft   - Omar Baldonado, Director of Software Engineering, Facebook   - Shawn Zandi, Director of Engineering, LinkedIn 3. Criteria for evaluation : Relevance for SONiC, complexity in execution, overall presentation and uniqueness of idea. 4. All participants will get a swag Click here for more information about the 2019 OCP Global Summit.

Students, parents, educators, and learners of all ages in San Mateo County, California! You're invited to attend The Next Big Think - a free public event. While you're there, be sure to visit the 2019 SMCOE STEM Fair -- you can participate in the hackathon and view the student Arts Expo, the Districts Showcase, the pop-up Makerspace, and more.

International Technological University (ITU) students! Sign up today to participate in the ITU Hackathon. You'll be challenged to design and prototype a digital solution to a problem of your choice -- one that you think needs to be solved. Come as part of a team of 4-6 people, or join one at the event. Come collaborate and compete for a $1,000 cash prize pool.

Denali Hacks is a 24 hour Hackathon hosted by Summit Denali High School at Sunnyvale. The Hacks Team will introduce the Denali Hacks that will be held on March 30-31, 2019. Open for middle school and  high school students.

Hackathon - Food Expense - $400