List of hackathons about health in 2017

Biomedical engineering students and undergraduates from other fields! The Associated Students of Biomedical Engineering invite you to participate in the ASBME Makeathon 2017. You'll collaborate with like minded individuals to brainstorm, design, and computer aided design a medical device. Five teams will be selected to move their device to fabrication, using USC’s Fabrication Lab. One Grand Prize Winner will be selected, with two runner-up prizes.

VR hackers in the Bay Area! Enflux invites you to showcase your skills at the Future of Sports Technology Hackathon. You'll network and collaborate with the best-of-the-best VR techies and be challenged to solve real problems for athletes, coaches, sports companies, and fans by leveraging the latest in sports technology. You'll get to use the latest technology in performance tracking, sensors, video, and VR/AR!

Fulton Engineering graduate and undergrad students at Arizona State University! You're invited to participate in the Spring 2017 Devils Invent Series: Healthcare Inventathon. You'll be challenged to design, build, and implement innovative solutions to healthcare problems.

Techies in and around Brisbane! Are you interested in helping the fight against juvenile diabetes? Josh Wulf of Minecraft invites you to participate in the MCT1 Hackathon to help produce a modified version of Minecraft for children with Type 1 Diabetes and their families. You'll collaborate and team with like minded individuals to create a modified version that allows the children to play as a player with Type 1, and learn to manage their condition in a fun, and engaging environment free of consequences.

Programmers, 3D designers, project managers, healthcare professionals! Voices of Africa invite you to form teams to participate in ReFab Dar's Hack4HealthAfrica Design Challenge. You'll be challenged to show how 3D printing and design can be used to help bring better healthcare to Africa. Sign up as a team, or come along and find your team-mates at the event. You will select and compete in one of the two challenge categories: »Healthy Mamas and Babies »HIV prevention

Interested in social change? You're invited to participate in the 2nd edition of Madrid Change: Hackathon for Social Innovation. You'll be challenged to collaborate to build an innovative project in areas such as Information and Data Algorithms, Blockchain, Social Searchers, Time Bank, Local Currency, Fair Trade, Mobility, Pollution, and more.

Health Innovators invites you to participate in HI HACK, a meetup where you'll collaborate to code innovative healthcare solutions. The goal of HI HACK is to uncover opportunities for digital health start-ups. You don't have to be an expert coder, or even know how to code at all!

Students in and around Sarnia, Ontario. The Cub at Lambton College invites you to sign up to participate in the DementiaHack 2017. At this information session, you'll meet with potential team mates and find out what the world’s foremost dementia hackathon is all about. At the hackathon, you'll be challenged to conceive and develop life-improving hardware and software solutions for those living with dementia and their caregivers.

Portuguese higher education students, recent graduates! Are you interested in how technology can be applied to issues related to solidarity and social development? CeSIUM — the Student Center for Computer Engineering at the University of Minho — invites you to sign up to participate in the Return Hackathon. You'll collaborate with like minded individuals to develop a technology platform (website, app or other system) that helps solve social problems, such as: »Support for children and young people; »Family support; »Protection of citizens in old age and disability; »Promotion and protection of public or personal health.

In preparation for the Hacking Health hackathon, you're invited to participate in the HIP613: Design Thinking Workshop. Here, you'll learn the collaborative design approach to solving problems! Select a health project for your challenge on Hacking Health Ottawa's hhottawa.sparkboard.com project board. At the workshop, you'll begin to dive into your selected project, as you familiarize yourself with the toolkit for your design problems.