List of hackathons about media in 2016

Musicians and sound engineers! Come along to the monthly Music Hackathon NYC. This month's topic is Music Education. 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.

The VR Austin Jam 2016 is the newest installment of the annual VR Jam series, which will be formatted similar to a game jam. Join other VR programmers in a 3 day long non-competitive VR experience hacking event. Programmers will work with their teams to create a 5 minute or less immersive VR experience, both new and previously started projects are welcomed, create all day and party all night at the VR Austin Jam 2016!

Managers, marketers, engineers, developers, hobbyists, artists! Interested in new media? Come and participate in the TICKER TOOLS hackathon in Berlin. Work in small teams and create ideas around the topic of News Journalism in the Berlin newsroom of the DPA news agency. Bring your idea, conceive, build, validate and refine your proposed solution and compete to win one of the prizes!

So you're not a coder? Here's a hackathon for you! ProtoHack exists to show non-coders that they can create something amazing from nothing. Sign up today for this code-free event. Instead you will use the best tools for non-coders -- prototyping tools, drag and drop editors, mockups, wireframes -- to VISUALLY demo your idea on stage.  ProtoHack will be a 12-hour experience where you will build a prototype that communicates an idea visually.

Emojicon is a festival for emoji lovers everywhere. Come listen to the creators speak and even suggest new emoji to members of the unicode Emoji sub committee.

Whether you are a bootstrapped founder, engineer, doctor, PhD scientist, business hacker, or student, you are invited to join this must attend Hackathon. Global Startup Hackathon is open to anyone who is planning to start, work, mentor or fund a startup. If you are seeking to launch a startup across a large market, you will enjoy this chance to mingle and network with potential co-founder, partner, corporate clients or investors along top industry domain experts. This event will focus on Digital, IoT, Health/BioTech, CleanTech, or Media.

LA entrepreneurs, coders and tech enthusiasts! Come and showcase your skills at Al Borde's Dia De Los Muertos 2016 Hackathon. Collaborate to build something amazing from the ground up! During a 4-hour hackathon, you'll work in a small team to introduce a game-changing concept for one of EC Hispanic Media’s brands. You can compete for an awesome pool of prizes including scholarships, tech wearables and gift certificates.

Open research is much more than open access. It is about making all aspects of the research process open to all possible interested parties. Attendees have 4 hours to take concrete steps to make their own research more open. Ideas include sharing a dataset, setting up a research blog or project website, planning an engagement project, pitching a news article, or creating a video biography or a podcast.

Georgia State University will be holding a hackathon available exclusively to their students in which participants will work with sponsors to design a scalable web and mobile based platform to display the best Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math projects and advances of Atlanta. There are no rules about what or how you design except for that you must #buildsomethingfromnothing, and you must address a group or community that is typically underrepresented in the STEAM fields.

The Nordic VR Hackathon focuses on bringing together some of the most skilled and intelligent hackers from around Europe to create in the name of virtual reality. If virtual reality is something you are interested in and you feel you have what it takes to compete, then join this community driven event to develop cutting edge hardware and software technologies for full immersion.