List of hackathons in United States in 2016

Want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? Come and participate in the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series in Miami, FL! Collaborate with like-minded women—and men—in an effort to build creative solutions to realize the potential of the female half of our world population! You'll be asked to hack a solution to one of the following challenges: » Health: Help women access health resources to ensure that they can have successful careers, regardless of whether or not they choose to have children. » Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they; go to, are at, and come home from work. » Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses. » Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace.

High school students in and around Austin, Texas! Want to showcase your techie creativity and coding skills? Are you ready for the Design for Progress Challenge? Come and participate in the Coding4TX Hackathon @ Galvanize. You'll be challenged to design and build a cool product that aims to solve an important youth problem of your choice. Collaborate and compete for awesome prizes!

Performers and developers! Are you interested in how technology can foster innovation in dance? Kinetech Arts & CounterPulse invite you to participate in DanceHackDay 2016. This is a daylong event that combines the traditional hackathon with a dance lab. You'll get the opportunity to create new and innovative applications of technology and dance material to create awesome live audience experiences. You'll be challenged to use DIY wireless heart monitors to create a cloud-based dataset of the heart rate of performers and use it to create interactive performance pieces based on the actual live heart rate of performers in multiple cities.

Developers, designers, marketers, entrepreneurs, etc.! Are you dissatisfied with the 2016 election cycle? Step up with an idea that could improve the next one. Debug Politics invites you to participate in Debug Politics: SF Hackathon II. a nonpartisan hackathon. Come along and collaborate to find innovative ways to make a real difference. You'll be part of a team that will be challenged to identify one specific thing about the election cycle you were dissatisfied with and build something to fix it. You can come as a team or form one on the night!

Engineers, designers, product managers, businesspeople, marketers, investors, etc. in the Bay ASrea! Frustrated with the state of the political climate? Want to make a difference? Sign up today to participate in the non-partisan Reboot Democracy Hackathon. Participate and use technology to help build tools that can help transform the political system to be truly representative of — and responsive to — all citizens.

FinTech coders, designers, bus dev professionals! AARP invites you to come and participate in the Startupbootcamp Fintech Holiday Hackathon. You'll get the opportunity to tackle FinTech challenges faced by all generations, while you engage with expert mentors, and network with like-minded individuals. You can choose to create innovative solutions to challenges such as: »Design an app for soon-to-be retirees providing them with a complete picture of their finances and their projected daily budget. »Create a finances and budgets solution for adult children to assist their aging parents. »and more...

SOLD OUT! Check out our next workshop on January 20th - 22nd: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vr-weekend-workshop-learn-unity-tickets-30060904976  Intro to Virtual Reality Weekend Workshop  VR is blowing up right now! The space is expected to grow into a $150 billion dollar industry by 2020. With the recent release of Playstation VR, Google Daydream and more, now is the time to learn how to be a part of this industry. Join us on December 9th-11th, where in just 3 short days we'll teach you how to build VR experiences. The workshop will focus on teaching you Unity VR, enabling you to build fully functional VR apps in no time! You'll also make new friends and get to try amazing VR experiences. We will announce more workshops focusing on business strategy, product concept and development for different industries soon. If you're interested in any future workshop offerings, please email ned@uploadvr.com.  About UploadVR Upload is the leading news, coworking, events and education provider in the VR industry. For more info check out www.uploadvr.com. Prerequisites: A computer with Unity installed  Basic C# coding knowledge (if you've never programmed before then put a few hours in at Microsoft Virtual Academy or LearnC# - Either one will prepare you enough for this course). What's provided: Food and drinks provided all three days HTC Vives and Oculus Rifts for testing your creations VR Gaming experiences to play with during down time Free online courseware access for you to continue your VR education Discounts to VR software and future VR education programs VR Weekend Schedule: Friday, December 9th (6:15pm-9pm) 6:15pm: Dinner, drinks and play VR games in our Holodeck Rooms 7:00pm: Intro to Unity | Building your first VR Experience 9:00pm: Light drinks and hanging out then we're done for the night! Get some rest for a big day tomorrow! Saturday, December 10th (10am-7pm) 10:00am: Breakfast, meet and greet, and play VR games in our holodeck rooms 10:30am: VR Weekend Talk: Jewel Lim and Jake Stull, Found  11:00am-1:00: Learn to make your first VR game, SKI BALL  1:00pm: Lunch 1:30pm-6:00pm: Finish making your VR SKI BALL Game 6:00pm-7:00pm: Stick around, test your game and play around in VR Sunday, December 11th (10am-7pm) 10:00am: Doors open, breakfast :) 10:30am: VR Weekend Talks: Jazmin Cano, High Fidelity 11:00am: Go over your SKI BALL game, address concerns and work through blocks 12:00pm-1:00pm: Learn about the Unity Asset Store and prep for your 2nd VR experience: Shooter 1:00pm: Lunch 1:30 - 5:30pm: Finish building your Shooter game 5:30 - 7:00pm: End of class celebration and drinks, game testing and playing with VR About the Guest Speakers and Instructors   Guest Speakers   Jazmin Cano VR Content Creator Jazmin Cano has been developing 3D content for Virtual Reality games and education since her first experience using a DK1 in 2013. Most recently, she operates as High Fidelity's Marketing and Events Coordinator, organizing hackathons and meetups in the metaverse and in person. While working in VR she has experience building worlds to be seen in the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard. In her free time, she creates 3D artwork, plays PC games and visits local comic book shops in search of new sci-fi material. Jewel Lim Producer at Found Jewel Lim is a hybrid artist-developer and the Producer of Found, a VR experience born out of the Upload Academy (in partnership with MakeSchool). With degrees in both visual arts and computer science, her passion is to bridge art and technology by creating meaningful and impactful experiences, particularly in areas of education, data visualization, and cinematic experiences, using VR technologies. Selected to participate in a highly competitive mentorship-incubator program called Oculus Launch Pad by Oculus, she works with the Found team to realize a cohesive and moving interactive cinematic experience. Through her product management expertise, she ensures that all parts of the process, from creative to technical, are in line with the team’s collective vision, while also participating as a developer and designer. Jake Stull CG Artist at Found Jake Stull is an illustrator, animator, and CG artist for Found, a VR experience born out of the Upload Academy (in partnership with MakeSchool). With a focus on storytelling, he builds scenes and characters, bringing them to life in 3D. Working primarily in Maya, zBrush, and Photoshop, he has three years of experience in the animation and gaming industry. His background in illustration and animation has helped him to collaborate on the artistic vision shared by everyone on the Found team. Instructors   Benjamin Taller Lead Instructor @ Upload Academy, formerly built games @Sony @Zynga @Kabam Benjamin Taller has been a virtual world pioneer for most of his life, starting at a young age making levels and mods for Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, and Quake. He always knew VR would be the future of gaming. Ben went to school for computer science and joined Metaplace in 2008. Shortly after Metaplace, Ben worked at Sony Online Entertainment building AAA virtual worlds. He also worked on Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures: a large scale Star Wars Massive Multiplayer Online World. Ben subsequently worked at both Kabam and Zynga on social and mobile games. He has been using Unity professionally for almost four years. This past summer, Ben was an instructor for the Upload Academy, an 8-week intensive VR coding academy in partnership with MakeSchool. Sky Nite Best selling author of Virtual Reality Insider, CEO of Dimension VR, Instructor @ Upload Academy Sky Nite wrote 'Virtual Reality Insider', the bestselling VR book in the world for the last 2 years. He then taught himself the VR stack and went on to build a VR game company, Dimension VR before joining Upload. This past summer, Sky was an instructor at the Upload Academy, an 8-week intensive VR coding academy in partnership with MakeSchool. Sky is currently working on expanding Upload's education efforts in a new online program with Udacity. You can normally find Sky at meetups around town, VR forums, and on the top of Reddit for all kinds of wonky stuff. No refunds. Questions? Please contact Ned Atkins, ned@uploadvr.com

Hackers in Missouri! Want to hack something good for the community? Sign up and participate in Hack 4 Good Springfield: #HackPoverty. Your challenge is to design and prototype a radically good mobile app that: 1.Connects the homeless to vital resources, and 2.Connects volunteers in real-time to meet the needs of the homeless community.

All New York City tristate Fintech startups and hackers! Signed up for Startupbootcamp's Fintech Holiday Hackathon? Terrific! Come and sign-up for a pre-hackathon workshop to learn all about BBVA's application programming interfaces (APIs). You'll be able to meet and network with BBVA's CTO, and other Fintech hackathon participants. Get all the technical and design scoop on the APIs that you'll use in the hackathon!

All open source contributors! The GSA is looking to redesign open.gsa.gov, the GSA Open website, the developer portal for all GSA data, APIs, and source code open to the public. They're looking for people to help in the project. Do you think you've got the creativity and skills it takes? OK! Sign up and participate in the Grace Hopper Day Hackathon, a competition to redesign the website. You can come in a team or form one at the event.