List of hackathons in United States in 2016

Google Developer Group is a community run by volunteers which creates exciting projects and shares experience about Google technologies. Join them at this years DevFest in Las Angeles to learn about google tech and hack in your area of specialty for awesome prizes!

Interested in bots and all things AI? Come and showcase your skills and creativity at the Facebook BOT Hackathon: San Francisco! This is 24-hour hackathon, where you'll show whose boss by building awesome on building Bots for Facebook Messenger! You'll be using the Recime platform for building bots, so all the underlying plumbing is taken care of — leaving you to concentrate in building your bot!

Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music With A Purpose. It's a free, non-competitive monthly all-day event for participants to create new music-related projects from scratch, develop them over a period of ~8 hours, then perform or present them in a concert format at 8pm.

Kids in South LA! Want to learn to code? Want to help improve your church, school, block, park, or any part of your community? Sign up for the South LA Hustle N’ Code Hackathon! You don't have to know how to code! There'll be plenty of people who get help get you started. You'll get the chance to come up with some great web or mobile app ideas to solve community problems. You'll be part of a team and compete for awesome prizes like laptops, Beat headphones and lots more!

Middle and high school students in the Lucia Mar Unified School District! Come and participate in the Central Coast Youth Hackathon (2016)! You'll have an awesome opportunity to be exposed to hands-on coding. You will work in a mentor-supported team to build a project in one of the following areas: web page, mobile apps, digital art, or game. Team members will work together, with creative problem solving and conceptual thinking.

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 Los Angeles! 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.

Techies, coders, designers, entrepreneurs, and engaged residents of Jersey City, NJ! The Jersey City Office of Innovation invites you to participate in Hack into Sustainability. Come along and collaborate, conceive, design and create solutions that will help Jersey City become a more sustainable community. Meet with like-minded Jersey City residents to come up with ways to make the city become an even better place to live!

Interested in BOTs? Want to participate in the Build A Bot Hackathon @ PLUG? That's cool! First sign up for the Build A Bot Preparation event, where your pre-formed team will meet-up, or you'll make new friends and form your team to build your bot! At the hackathon itself, your goal will be to create an open source bot for the inSitu mobile field sales application. Your bot will be packed with awesome features that will provide information about the company, package/invoice status, and any other cool features you come up with. Showcase your skills with technologies such as natural language processing, voice recognition, and AI.

Virtual reality fanatics in and around San Francisco and the Bay area! Think you have what it takes to blow some VR minds? Come and participate in the Virtual Reality Hackathon. You get to meet and collaborate with the best of the best VR techies in Northern California. You can bring your own VR project or pick om e of the challenges posed at the event. It's your choice!

Developers, designers, Internet of Things hackers in the Portland area! Showcase your IoT hacking skills to help your city become more sustainable! Come and collaborate with like-minded individuals at the IoT Hackathon 2016, sponsored by Women Who Code Portland. You'll work in teams of 3 - 5 women and men to create innovative ways to preserve energy and prevent wasteful consumption in the home and/or at work.