List of hackathons in Canada in 2016

Developers, designers and hackers in Waterloo and the Greater Toronto area! Interested in applying technology to pressing environmental issues? The Waterloo Region Environmental Network (WREN) invites you to sign up and participate in the Waterloo Region Environment Network Hackathon 2016. Collaborate with like-minded techies and create innovative technology solutions.

Teen girls age 13 to 17! Want to be a problem solver? Come and participate in Teen:Clubs Hackathon, sponsored by Ladies Learning Code. You'll be part of an interactive learning experience at a special Teen:Clubs Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like-minded girls and be challenged to explore problems, turn your ideas into reality, and design and build innovative technology solutions.

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The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre and the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes invite data engineers interested in the Common Archive Observation Model to attend a workshop and hackathon. You will work on the CAOM open source project — to collaborate to help evolve the data model and support new use cases. Should you choose, you may participate in the one-day hackathon to further develop the observation model data and to stage test datasets for complete end-to-end use of CAOM.

Interested in the potential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)? Cambridge House International, Canada's premier conference company, invites you to participate in the Disruptive Business Challenge hackathon, which will be held at the inaugural International UAV Show. You'll network and collaborate with like-minded UAV professionals and enthusiasts to come up with innovative UAV start-up ideas. Your projects should have the potential to create new markets, capture existing ones, and have the ability to change our lives for the better.

Students in and around Toronto! SAGE Canada invites you to participate in the Innovation Hack 2016. You will collaborate with like-minded people with an entrepreneurial spirit to create innovative solutions to pressing social challenges? You'll work in a team and apply out-of-the-box thinking to develop innovative, maybe unconventional solutions to real world problems.

Toronto high schoolers! The University of Toronto invites you to come and participate in the Hi-Skule High School Design Competition. This engineering design competition/hackathon is open to all students in grades 9-12. Come along and enjoy a full day of building, problem-solving, and engineering. You'll collaborate with like-minded students to undertake a design project, which you will present to a panel of judges for a chance to win!

Come and participate in the Break Inequality hackathon! Help create something with tangible social impact and help empower women through technology. This event is open to both women and men. You'll get the opportunity to collaborate with Bangladeshi women, using web and SMS tools in innovative ways to connect, empower and provide accessibility to the next potential billion users.

Interested in the plight of refugees? Think you know how technology solutions could help? PeaceGeeks & Simon Fraser University invite you to come and participate in #PeaceHacks. You'll collaborate with like-minded individuals in a mini-hackathon, where you'll explore ways in which innovative technology solutions can help increase access to services for refugees and strengthen intercultural integration.

Boys of color aged 8-17! Planning a career in technology? Excited by robotics? Come and participate in the next BlackBoysCode 2016 Hackathon Challenge. The theme is Robotics! Sign up and collaborate with your peers to develop the best, smartest, and most creative robotics solution. You'll be challenged to program a physical robot to traverse obstacles. You'll work in a team, using critical thinking and programming skills, and demonstrate your program to a panel of judges. Perhaps your team will be judged the winner and take home an awesome prize?