List of hackathons in United Kingdom in 2016

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! Sign up to participate in the SpaceUp Hackathon in Manchester. Come and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Compete for awesome exclusive prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. Get hackathon advice from the tips page!

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! This is a virtual event—you don't have to be on-site in Manchester to participate! Just register for the SpaceUp Virtual Hackathon. Sign up and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Compete for awesome exclusive prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. For SpaceUp Virtual hackathon advice visit the tips page!

Coders, designers, makers, scientists, citizens, space nuts! Sign up to participate in the SpaceUp Hackathon in Manchester. Compete for awesome prizes including the chance to send your hack into Space. Come and collaborate on your choice of challenge: XploraSat Challenge: Develop hardware for use on the XploraSat platform Destination Discovery Network Challenge: Propose a future Space Mission Get your hackathon advice here on the tips page!

Dundee University students! You're invited to participate in the first ever Dundee University Computing Society (DUCS) Quackathon! This 24-hour student hackathon is open to all students of all abilities — you don't need to know how to code! You'll participate in a team — either come with your own team or join one on the day! So come, collaborate, code and network with the best and the rest!

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week Acorn Aspirations is running a 2-day hackathon/start-up style event where 100 young people aged 12-19 will collaborate with mentors from the TechCity community to develop tech start-ups that solve social problems in their local communities and worldwide. #AcornHack2016 will unlock young people’s entrepreneurial potential by inspiring them to get creative with coding, programming and digital technology, as well as attend masterclass workshops in digital marketing, branding, APIs, lean UX and Business Model Canvas. The purpose of this event is to equip young people with the tools that will enable them to become change-makers and entrepreneurs of their own lives. What is Global Entrepreneurship Week? Global Entrepreneurship Week is the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth, and expand human welfare. No hacking experience required, just passion to get up and go for it. #AcornHack2016 will show you how your favourite mobile apps are built, you will then build your own as part of a team with the help of people who do this everyday. You will learn how to turn your ideas into a basic working version. Things you'll learn: How to decide which of your ideas are worth working on How to decide what features the user needs to get them from A to B How to sketch your ideas How to build your idea using rapid prototyping tools How to pitch your idea Basic coding skills & UX - HTML, CSS and Android studio                                                                         AGENDA  Day 1:     19 November 9:45am – 10:00am  Registration 10.00am - 10.10am  Welcome and Introduction 10:10am – 11:00am  Ice-breaker and team formation 11:00am – 12:00am  Ideation workshop 12:00am – 12:15pm  Intro to SCRUM 12:15pm – 1:00pm  Lunch 1:00pm – 2:00pm  SPRINT 1 2:00pm - 3:00pm  SPRINT 2 3:00pm - 4:00pm  SPRINT 3 4:00pm - 4:30pm Intro to Coding 4.30pm - 5.00pm Wrap-up End of Day 1 Day 2:       20 November 09.45am - 10.00am Arrivals & Welcome 10.00am - 11.00am SPRINT 4  11.00am - 12.00pm SPRINT 5  12:00am – 1:00pm  Pitch training 1:00pm - 2:00pm  Lunch 2:00pm - 3:00pm SPRINT 6  3:00pm - 4:00pm PITCH 4:00pm - 4:30pm Judging 4:30pm - 5:00pm  Winners announced & Closing   To learn about the #AcornHack2016, please visit: http://acornhack2016.co.uk/ To learn about Acorn Aspirations, please visit: www.acornaspirations.co.uk

Eye Heroes invites all interested volunteers, eye health specialists, teachers, designers and friends to sign up and participate in the Eye Heroes Hackathon. You'll be challenged to come up with effective and innovative ways to fight avoidable blindness. Collaborate with like-minded individuals to help shape the future of Eye Heroes and further its impact, by creating new ways to spread the word about eye health.

Do you have experience of software development or design? Want to be a hacker? Sign up for MoHack Belfast - Hackathon for Movember. You'll help spread the message of Movember and help strive towards the goal to stop men dying too young. Come with your own team or join one at the event and create awe-inspiring apps that help address themes such as: »Give men the facts »Change behaviour for the better »Create services that work for men »Bring the brightest minds together »Listen to the community and advocate for men

#DataScience. #MachineLearning. #BigData. These aren't just buzzwords, they're extraordinarily practical tools for turning impenetrable datasets into clear insights & decisions that can help you to achieve your goals. Take a tour of cutting edge techniques that can transform your approach to marketing & social media, including case studies covering: How to use clustering algorithms to identify distinct behavioural user segments for enhanced targeting; How to use network analysis to identify key influencers on social networks; How to drive down CAC and churn by predicting customer behaviour long before it happens! John Sandall https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/john-sandall/6905 Over the years, John has added a number of strings to his bow. Statistician, geneticist, business analyst, startup founder, software developer, educator, non-profit strategist, data scientist, multi-instrumentalist! He currently runs a data science consultancy focused on helping businesses to identify and solve the challenges they face through a combination of research-grade statistical techniques, strategic analysis and a lean-startup engineering mentality. Until recently he was the Lead Data Scientist at YPlan. Prior experience includes business analytics at Apple Inc., genomics research at Imperial College London, building an ed-tech startup at Knodium, developing strategy & technological infrastructure for international non-profit startup STIR Education, and losing sleep to many a hackathon along the way. He also teaches the data science evening course and multiple workshops at General Assembly. He's also been known to dabble in violin; a concerto here, a pop gig there, occasionally conducting youth ensembles, and usually playing with his folk music band.

The next Sheffield Tech For Good meet up is on Tuesday 15 November at Yoomee's new office at 9 South Street, part of the redeveloped section of Park Hill. We'll be starting at 6pm with four short talks until about 7.15pm, when we'll start socialising with food and drink, which is kindly sponsored by Tech North. Each Sheffield Tech for Good meet up focuses on a single theme such, as mental health, the environment, education and social care. This meet up focuses on refugees and specifically, refugees in Sheffield. Sheffield and the refugee crisis There will be three sessions followed by a good hour for networking and general chit-chat. First, you’ll get to hear about the Asylum Journey, a tool that came out of the Sheffugee hackathons. It’s gone from a paper prototype to something used by organisations across Sheffield to help refugees get the vital information they need. We have a more general talk from those who are working hard to support asylum seekers and refugees in Sheffield. They’ll share the work they do and some ideas for how people in the tech community can get involved. Finally, you’ll also hear from Sheffield Donations for Calais, a small local group that collects and sends donations for asylum seekers and refugees in desperate need in the refugee camps in France, Greece and even Syria. Food, drink and finding us Tech North have kindly sponsored food and drink for the event again, so no need to grab an after-work sandwich. And to find us, just head to Yoomee’s front entrance at Park Hill, the side facing the city centre. The address is 9 South Street, S2 5QY. Don’t worry. We’ll put some signs up. Reserve your spot The aim is to have 50% tech folk and 50% social good at each event. That’s why we have specific tickets set up on Eventbrite for each audience. If you work in tech, hit the big green register button and choose the 'tech' ticket. If you work for a charity, non-profit or identify as working in the general area of 'social good', choose the 'non-profit' ticket.  Note: Tech tickets are always popular, so we'd like to restrict tickets to one person per company to give everyone a chance to attend.  Find out more If you have any questions, email iain@yoomee.com and I’ll get back to you pronto. For more information see: http://shefftech4good.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/shefftech4good Hashtag on Twitter: #shefftech4good

What exactly is Data Science and why does it matter? How does it differ from analytics? We live in a world with seemingly infinite data, and if you can learn the right balance of computer science, statistics, and information theory, there are lucrative opportunities available to you. Discover case studies about how data science is uniquely positioned to solve major problems for a variety of companies. By the time you finish this class, you’ll have a better idea of what the data science field is, and more importantly, how you can help yourself get what the Harvard Business Review calls the “sexiest job of the 21st century”. John Sandall https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/john-sandall/6905 Over the years, John has added a number of strings to his bow. Statistician, geneticist, business analyst, startup founder, software developer, educator, non-profit strategist, data scientist, multi-instrumentalist! He currently runs a data science consultancy focused on helping businesses to identify and solve the challenges they face through a combination of research-grade statistical techniques, strategic analysis and a lean-startup engineering mentality. He also teaches the data science evening course and multiple workshops at General Assembly. Until recently he was the Lead Data Scientist at YPlan. Prior experience includes business analytics at Apple Inc., genomics research at Imperial College London, building an ed-tech startup at Knodium, developing strategy & technological infrastructure for international non-profit startup STIR Education, and losing sleep to many a hackathon along the way. He's also been known to dabble in violin; a concerto here, a pop gig there, occasionally conducting youth ensembles, and usually playing with his folk music band.