List of hackathons about media in 2016

US university students! Come and participate in the 30+ hour QuackCon hackathon at the University of Oregon. Come and collaborate on prototyping sports and outdoor products for athletic performance and audience engagement.

For those interested in turning their love of gaming into a profession, U-tad and Diboos have collaborated to provide the residents of Las Rozas with the ability to attend an Advanced Unity workshop for multi-platform game developement. Participants will learn important concepts in Unity Game Engine from animation to user interface and even virtual reality.

BCNAnalytics and SocialPoint will once again be teaming up for the second annual Barcelona Gaming Datathon! 10 teams of 4 members each will be working together to try to win their share of over 1.5k euros in prizes, food tshirts and a team if needed will all be provided. Selections for participants will be made off of merit based on linkedin/github profiles.

Fullwave, a group of millennial entrepreneurs from New York City, will be hosting an event within the Philippines startup community along with other entrepreneurs, developers, and investors from around the world. Join to participate as a company that will host a startup booth featuring demos about your company and its products.

Volta Labs and Atlantic Lottery are teaming up to put on the first ever Atlantic Lottery Hackathon.001: Probability and Randomness! The anything goes 4 day hackathon will have mini prizes throughout the week and a Hacker’s Choice award in addition to the prizes listed below, and bonus points will be awarded for sticking to the theme of probability and randomness. This hackathon differs from others in that competitors can compete solo, join a team, or join multiple teams, there's is no limit on your team involvement!

Ever wanted to understand what a hack day is? Come along and Newcastle Libraries staff will show you how to do stuff! This is the premise for Newcastle Libraries' second hackathon -- a day-long hackathon to learn new skills and collaborate on ideas for using data and content released by Newcastle Libraries. Following on from the first hackathon -- Wuthering Hacks -- which was mainly for developers and people with programming skills or data visualisation experience, this event is open to people who want to learn some of those skills too.

Do you have expertise in digital design, programming, data architecture, marketing, communications, etc.? Come and participate in the second edition of the Hackathon of Culture Days. Collaborate as a team to build a prototype mobile application, website, video game or digital product that serves a purpose: To make culture accessible to all!

Learn to work in teams with support from hacking experts to develop a creative solution for companies to use to grow their business through the use of technology. Ideas will be judged by a panel of experts, with the best ideas moving on to participate in Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startup Machine will then in turn help to continue developing the start up as well as providing access to funding and investors.

Writers & performers! Come attend "Create Interactive Fiction Using Twine". Discover the game creation platform Twine—the simplest game-making tool around! If you're interested in making interactive fiction then there's no better place to start than Twine. Attend this course and learn: »Master the ins and outs of the Twine software »Construct interactive and non-linear stories »Hone your storytelling skills »Enhance live performances with audience interaction »Discover how (and why) minority communities have embraced Twine »Perform your creation at the class exhibition!

The advent of the digital age has radically transformed whole industries in recent years, allowing new entrants into business to acheive previously impossible levels of growth. As such, traditional businesses must change and adapt their strategies to fit the society in which they exist. Attending the Partners4Innovation Hackathon will help you to identify areas where digital innovations already exist, and to find new areas in which you can better your business.