Facebook has hosted a couple of
hackathons for veterans, including the first ever hackathon for female veterans.
We have themed
hackathons for different things.
Sega allowed the hosting of many game jams and
hackathons for game developers to learn how to make games by remixing the original Sonic games and trying to make something awesome out of them.
At Games for Change, he uses this expertise to coordinate and facilitate events such as game jams and
hackathons for the company's various programs.
One such teacher is Fiona Kempton from Norwich High School, who wants to put on a series of
Hackathons for other schools in the Norwich area.
This led me to find more
hackathons for Kloss Angeles to participate in, so I always update the group chat with any new ones that I find.
Organizing and / or sponsoring
hackathons for IT - focused businesses, marathons for sport - related businesses, cook - offs for restaurants, and even speed assembly contests for computer hardware or automotive shops are but a few ideas you can consider.
The 2018 Annual NYUAD International
Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World will be held on April 27 - 29 at NYUAD.
Facebook kicked off its 2018 Community Challenge
hackathon for its Developer Circles communities on the second day of the conference.
Qeyno established «Hackathon Academy» in 2013 with the launch of the first
hackathon for Black male achievement, Startup Weekend Oakland (BMAHack), to address the diversity gap in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art Design, and Mathematics).
After the success of launching Oakland's third annual My Brother's Keeper Hackathon (#mbkhack), Qeyno Labs and the NACA (Native American Community Academy) Inspired Schools Network will collaborate on the launch of the first Native youth - focused
hackathon for My Brother's Keeper: #nativembk in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 22 - 24, 2016, prior to the annual Gathering of Nations.
The free CS extravaganza will feature a student
hackathon for middle school students (5 - 8th grade), a teacher coding workshop, CS showcases of drones and robotics, and keynote speakers!
Karen Winton, Managing Parner Nest VC: «Legal Geek's Law Tech
Hackathon for Good with the Hackney Community Law Centre uncovered some unique and creative ideas that have the potential to transform the practise of law within the legal aid environment and greatly improve people's lives.»
In 2016 our first hackathon was themed around Law Centres and appointment management, we went on to organise
a hackathon for the advice desert in mid-2016.
Hi Magaret, I'm developing a criminal law
hackathon for youth in the Greater Toronto Area, and I'd love to use the model that the Legal Design Lab used for its criminal law hackathon as a template.
We also have a separate «Law For Good» program to provide technical support to legal charities through activities such as Hackathon's, including the recent Online Courts
Hackathon for the UK Government.
As Military Appreciation month wraps up for May and we recognize Memorial Day, I wanted to recount an experience I had judging
a hackathon for military veterans run by VetsinTech and hosted at Facebook.
Read next: Salesforce offering $ 1 million prize at its inaugural Dreamforce
hackathon for the best mobile app
A month - long Borderless Block Party
hackathon for high school and undergraduate university students starts in November.
Not exact matches
VanHacks, a Vancouver «social good
hackathon,» is aimed at solving problems
for charities.
One of my earliest stories
for Fortune consisted of a sleepless dispatch from a two - day Bitcoin
hackathon at New York University that was sponsored, in part, by Ludwin's company (before it pivoted to enterprise software).
In early October, the city held TrafficJam, a
hackathon that invited entrepreneurs to come up with ideas
for beating gridlock.
Some examples include DreamWorks, where employees take free classes to learn how to pitch their ideas and are then able to pitch them directly to executives, and Facebook's «
hackathons,» where engineers collaborate on software projects that have turned into real features
for the site including the infamous «like» button.
With a modern - day innovation rush enveloping the globe, startup ecosystems» stakeholders mainly search
for it in a neighboring garage or at a never - ending tech
hackathon.
The business of honey will be the focus of a
Hackathon to address challenges facing the honey industry and explore the market
for valuable, but largely untapped honey bee products.
IoT devices offer flexibility and collaboration
for better
hackathons, touchdown meetings, connected desks and working surfaces, company - wide Monday meetings, content creation and data analysis
for better decisions.
For example, you could check out booths by other companies, head to niche events like
hackathons or just walk up to random strangers.
Teja says he believes the event put MaRS on the map
for the company, which has now run the
hackathon with them several times.
«In our
hackathon pitch, I remember saying, «Speech is one
for the most underutilized sources of information in the business world today,» and this fact still remains, but technological advances are now at the cusp of being unlocking this true potential,» Salman added.
Commenting on his entrepreneurial journey with Wrappup, Salman said, «It's been a wild ride
for sure, from a simple idea at a
hackathon, to a working prototype in 24 hours, to the current state of the platform driven by predictive A.I. and voice commands - it's been an incredible experience.
The search giant retires its annual
hackathon, replaces it with an around - the - clock program that allows hackers to submit (and get paid
for) finding bugs anytime, from anywhere.
To encourage solutions
for reducing childhood obesity, one non-profit is embracing two hot startup trends:
hackathons and pitch contests.
For example, pitch competitions,
hackathons, start - up week, anything that is happening around the world, we work as an organization to bring it here,» she said.
Frost has since cofounded AngelHack, a
hackathon with angel investors as judges, and joined the board of directors of VictorySpark, a seed accelerator
for military veterans.
Sponsoring a
hackathon and publishing your data
for free is a great way to give your business a fresh perspective.
Unleash Toronto builds on the success of the Unleash Boston
hackathon held
for employees in July 2015.
During the coworking phase, PIE served as a hub
for community, regularly hosting gatherings,
hackathons, and educational meet ups.
This past weekend Zillow and the University of Washington's Computer Science & Engineering school hosted «Hack Housing: Empowering Smarter Decisions» — a weekend
hackathon focused on coming up with creative solutions to make it easier
for first - time home buyers, low - income renters and senior citizens to find a home that meets their needs.
A total of 17 teams competed and presented proposals
for new PropTech hacks at the Real Estate Board of New York's (REBNY) first #REBNYTech
Hackathon — hosted by its REBNYTech Committee and sponsored by Real Capital Analytics, RealConnex, and Samsung Internet — over three days during #NYCRETechWeek.
The government of Canada's Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE)
hackathon is coming to Montreal
for an information session on January 29. . .
This past weekend in Toronto, five women founders pitched to a room of 100 people
for the the first - ever #MoveTheDial
hackathon.
It was created at TechCrunch Disrupt
Hackathon over the course of one day, but it isn't quite ready
for use yet.
Mar 02, 2017 Over the past weekend (September 10th & 11th), I attended my first ever
Hackathon at TechCrunch Disrupt — an amazing experience
for one such as me (a former «corporate techie» and recent startup entrepreneur).
ETHWaterloo will give ambitious and talented developers the opportunity to work alongside the inventors of Ethereum
for a 36 - hour
hackathon.
Registration is now open
for Zillow and the University of Washington's weekend - long housing
hackathon.
This
hackathon is
for all genders.
This unique mentorship program will last
for 8 - 10 weeks, and has combined
hackathon with an incubation program.
With the precious support of the World Bank and Valrhona, the World Cocoa Foundation, the Trade
for Sustainable Development (T4SD) project of the International Trade Centre (ITC), Google Food Lab (GFL), Future Food Institute (FFI) and the Business School Lausanne (BSL) invite you to a three - day
hackathon (October 23 - 24) to collaborate on creating, prototyping and birthing hardware and software tools which address some of the greatest challenges of cocoa farming.
High school students compete
for prizes and enjoy great food and swag at the LexHack
Hackathon (Lexington)
Last weekend, I ran across this article about a project (a «
hackathon,» actually) intended to vastly improve the breast pump (and make it only suck literally): The goals
for the
hackathon were to educate ourselves and our colleagues about the mechanics of breast pumping, discuss design challenges posed by current technologies... View Post