List of hackathons about industry in 2016

Developers, designers, project managers, or just interested in tech, you are invited to attend the AT&T & GWC Women in Tech and IoT Hackathon - Atlanta. You will come to the hackathon to collaborate om the design and build of innovative websites for non-profit charity organizations. You will be working with a team which is a great way to meet other girls who are passionate about technology too.

Houston Inventors is proud to present the PowerUp Houston Hackathon this year at the Mini Maker Faire. The theme will be sustainability to further our efforts as a society in conserving energy and water. Both hardware and software projects are allowed, and the venue will provide access to Rapid Prototyping equipment like 3D printers. Participation is limited to highschool and college students only.

Student designers and engineers! Interested in social learning? Come participate in the Yellowdig hackathon and team with like-minded individuals to explore the question as to whether social learning works! Combine your creativity and collaborative skills to use Yellowdig's platform and code and answer the question. Compete to win cash great prizes, internships, and mentoring opportunities.

Singapore youth between 9 - 13 years old! Come and participate in the inaugural Singapore Junior Hackathon! Join a team and bring innovation to your home, school and neighbourhood. You'll have to brainstorm a technology solution to a particular problem or service need in your home, school or neighbourhood. Pitch your idea to the judging panel and compete to win prizes. You'll be expected to present: »Identify a unique problem to solve »A poster format presentation of the proposed solution »A basic prototype of the solution (coded in Scratch or another programming language)

Student hackers! Come and participate in the GreatUniHack 2016 at the University of Manchester. Come on your own or with a team. If you're on your own, you'll find teammates when you arrive on site! You'll be tasked with tackling sponsor challenges which will be announced before the event, Collaborate in your team with like-minded student techies to compete for awesome prizes!

Freshers at King's College London! Are you looking at a future in technology and interested in building tech products? The KCL Tech Society invites you to come and participate in Hack X: First Year Hack Fresher’s Challenge. Come and hack your Saturday away in a beginner-friendly environment! There is no theme, so you're encouraged to strut your techie stuff. Get creative, build something awesome and learn for yourself what hackathons are like.

NGA’s Expedition: Hackathon is looking for the best data explorers and developer storytellers in the US to finally find stories lying in disparate databases all over. These seldom used mountains of data lie dormant, waiting for someone to explore and study their findings, and to tell their stories to the world. Come and develop the next generation of engaging stories in time and space (geospatially) using the piles of data NGA will give you. Your app must educate and demonstrate data exploration at its finest!

Interested in statistics and how to communicate them to the world at large? Come and participate in StatFest 2016 - Illuminating Statistics via Dashboard, a hackathon sponsored by the Columbia University Statistics Club. You'll collaborate to use Rstudio to create innovative dashboards for visualizing statistical concepts, so that they are accessible to the general public.

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 Mexico City! 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. Go to our hackathon tips pagefor participation advice!

Hackers, designers, entrepreneurs, social activists, and others in Barcelona and across Catalonia! Do you want to help break down the barriers to female entrepreneurship? Want to help more women enter and succeed in the technology sector? AngelHack invites you to come and participate in the Barcelona edition of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series! You'll get to 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, or Safety: Help ensure that women can be safe when they go to, are at, and come home from work, or Economic Empowerment: Help women gain financial literacy and access the resources they need to grow their businesses, or Culture: Help women access better mentorship and feel less isolated in the workplace. Compete for an array of awesome prizes from sponsors and community partners including Women Who Code, Proctor & Gamble, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, 4YFN, One Month, and Getty Images. The winning team in each city location of the Lady Problem Global Hackathon Series will be inducted into the AngelHack social good accelerator, a 12-week mentorship, and acceleration program. Answers to commonly-asked questions can be found on the hackathon tips page!