List of hackathons about media in 2016

The Central Coast Youth Hackathon is a great opportunity for youths to get hands-on coding without taking big risks by programming in a supported way. This hackathon is aimed at middle and high school students who will form teams together with the support of mentors to build projects in a number of different areas: Web pages, Mobile Apps, Digital Art, and Games. Join this event for a full day of learning, connecting and fun!

Join the FremantleMedia Website Hackathon to reimagine the TV show website. This event is inviting all developers and designers to build a website experience for TV fans using code from Wordpress.org and our API partners. The new site will be for FremantleMedia North America, a separate site from the current FremantleMedia site. You will be provided with corporate style guides, fonts, logos, videos, stills/images, show descriptions, show event information, show social links, etc. Your challenge is to provide ways to take the Fremantle site beyond the basic information bringing more awareness of shows, viewer Engagement, andSocial Mediaers!

Join the Seattle VR Hackathon for the ultimate VR experience, learn about new technologies, and work on a project to pump up your portfolio! There's no theme or prizes for this hackathon, it is simply a gathering for creatives and passionate people to let out their imagination! You also don't need to have experience developing for VR to participate. There will be hackers from all sorts of backgrounds and levels of expertise, so it will be a great learning experience for everyone involved!

The Memory Palace Hackathon's main aim is for you to develop a software that will allow individuals to build memory palaces in virtual reality or a 3D modeled environment on a 2D screen. Human memory is significantly better adapted to learning spaces and images than it is to learning textual and numerical information. For millennia, memory techniques have been developed and leveraged in oral cultures to store huge amounts of information in human memory through association with space and image. While the core principles of memory palaces can be learned quickly, their application to specific subjects and disciplines remains elusive. By creating a means of building memory palaces in virtual reality, the entire process can be transmitted and demonstrated faster, more effectively, and with digital – as well as human – memory storage. Users will be able to see their own and other people’s memory palaces, as well as be able to create their own memory palaces with built-in guidance and step-by-step instruction. This event will require developers familiar with Ruby programming language and preferably with Sketchup itself. The goal is to code the steps and functions that allow teachers to create instructional modules and students to add their own associations and build their own memory palaces.

Digital Harbor presents the Abilities Hackathon, a collaborative effort to engage the tech community in solving the needs of people with impacted abilities

SkyWatch hosting the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for the Waterloo Region. This hackathon will attract Waterloo’s top tech and non-technical talent including: developers, makers, citizen scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs who will be asked to work non-stop for 48 hours to address NASA-designed challenges. The two winning solutions from the Waterloo challenge will move on to compete with other winners from across the globe, to be judged by the NASA International Space Apps Challenge team. This year’s event will include the unveiling of Canada’s first ever accelerator focused on space startups. The Canadian space industry will make this program become a reality right in the Waterloo district. More details will be reveal at the event.

This is a hackathon on communication in education for developers, parents and early years teachers with ideas for edtech products for children aged 4 to 8. Your challenges will be to develop a literacy app or platform to help children to articulate and express their ideas and experiences verbally, to other challenges involved in school readiness including physical well-being and motor development, social and emotional development, approaches to learning, and cognition and general knowledge, creating a platform for parents to get connected to other parents.

The ART//GAMES//HACKATHON is an intensive workshop welcoming all artists, coders and technologists to team up, collaborate and develop prototypes for game art projects.  This hackathon is part of Europeana Space, a large EU-funded project, which examines the creative reuse of online content across a range of media and art forms. The three winning projects will receive further mentoring from Simon Cronshaw from Remix and the chance to participate in a Business Modelling Workshop to further shape their projects and develop business plans. These three finalists will then compete for three months of tailored business incubation from world-class industry leaders.

Join this hackathon to design the future of public media in North Carolina! The UNC-TV Hackathon will bring together the most talented students and professionals to use technology, experience and brainpower to solve how UNC-TV public media cultivates statewide community engagement among NC’s diverse geographic, social, individual, corporate and non-profit universe. Based the participants, teams with a mix of interests, skills and experience will be made. Each teams will then get 40 hours to work on a concept to improve UNC-TV. Mentors and media experts will provide expertise to teams.

Join the AR Standards Hackathon to learn about and develop AR (augmented reality) experiences using existing and emerging standards. You will get an introduction to existing and emerging specifications designed for AR experiences, there will be augmented reality experts on site, devices for testing AR, food, beverages, and sample or suggested use cases. All you need to bring along is your programming skills, your laptop, an open mind for augmented reality, and user cases you want to work on.