List of hackathons about media in 2016

The Electric Sky is a cross between an artists' retreat and a hackathon where you'll spend several days in the woods, on the river, in an outdoor creativity lab, making stuff combining art and tech. This event aims to bring together artists, technologists, designers, hackers, makers and friends to collaboratively engage with the environment in new and exciting ways.

Hackathons don't have to be about coders! What about bloggers? If you want to put the fun back into your blog-writing, sign up to attend the first ever Writally Blog-hackathon. Just bring your laptop--you'll be given your own blog post recipe--and Writally mentors will help you create and workshop your blog post step-by-step as you write it. At the end of the event, you’ll walk away with tons of helpful feedback to improve your blog writing, plus you'll have an amazing blog post you can publish immediately!

This is a hackathon for teachers to learn and explore with technology, as well as network with other educators, makers, and industry representatives. You will explore computer science by designing and creating tech projects and discuss issues surrounding making and computer science, including curriculum design, software and equipment. The first day of the conference we will offer a guided exploration of several current topics in tech education, including coding, robotics, making, Arduinos, Raspberry Pis, MakeyMakeys, 3D printing, app development, wearable electronics, circuits, soldering, and basic woodworking. The second day of the conference we will put what you have learned into design and construct a tech project of your choosing. We will also have experts on hand to help you through the process!

Join this hackathon for a 2-day conference for one of the largest communities of design and engineering software developers in the world. Be among the first to learn, experience and use the next generation of Autodesk Cloud Services, a set of web services, APIs and SDKs that span early stage design, engineering, simulation, visualization collaboration, production and operations. Attendees can mix and match between Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, AEC, Manufacturing with 3D printers, and Business Development.

Come participate in Hack the Local! Collaborate with community and mainstream journalists, journalism students, tech start ups and software developers to build new apps and platforms based around local news challenges. Teams will compete for prizes while being provided expert guidance in open data and community journalism.

Are you a journalist, designer or developer interested in digital journalism? Are you a disruptor -- good at thinking outside the box? Come! Join a team at the digital journalism hackathon and help develop a prototype, a new gadget or a new form that is purely digital and radically pushes journalism into the future.

Is Virtual Reality your thing? Come and participate in the Philippine Mobile VR Jam. Open for all participants--students, professionals, artists or programmers. The Philippine Mobile VR Jam is a Virtual Reality hackathon that will bring together brilliant minds to learn and collaborate on creating applications with immersive mobile virtual reality technologies. Over the period of 42 hours, teams are tasked to create their own Virtual Reality game or app for the Samsung Gear VR mobile virtual reality headset.

iCODEX--the first event dedicated to the world of innovation, culture and technological development. Who should attend? Developers, designers, computer scientists, creative minds--anyone who is passionate about the intersection of culture and technology.

iCODEX is a 24-hour hackathon promoting cultural innovation. Participants will be asked to develop ideas that improve the way people think, create, and enjoy cultural products. The projects that this event wants to accomplish with iCODEX will be transmedia, interactive and immersive.

Are you a champion of democracy? Come join like-minded people at Open Democracy Now! Work collaboratively to build practical digital solutions to the challenges of participatory democracy. Participate with an open source/open data proiect that can help expand open government initiatives.