Hackathons for Beginners 2025

Beginner hackathons are the ideal launchpad for aspiring developers, students, and technology enthusiasts who are new to programming. These events provide a supportive and inclusive environment where participants can learn through hands-on experience, collaborate with others, and create their first project. Whether exploring web development, Python, data science, or design, beginner hackathons help participants gain practical experience, mentorship, and real-world confidence. No prior coding skills are necessary—just curiosity and a desire to learn.
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IN-PERSON Code for Accessibility

March 9, 2024

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Code Your Dreams and Deaf Kids Code have joined forces for this year’s hackathon at Google's Chicago office. Teams will develop solutions that aim to …

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Beginner · Education · Social · Chicago, Illinois, United States
IN-PERSON UB ACM Hack Nights

March 4, 2024 - May 4, 2024

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About the challenge

Hack Nights is a semester-long ‘hackathon’ focused on getting students together to work on long-term projects together. We’ll be checking in with …

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Beginner · Education · United States
IN-PERSON Hack the Treasure

March 2, 2024

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What is Hack the Treasure?

It's a programming event where participants work together to make creative projects using their chests, mystery software packages that you …

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Beginner · Web · United States
IN-PERSON personal & cozy computing hackathon

Feb. 24, 2024

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Schedule

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Beginner · Web · United States
IN-PERSON C4-TIE Spring Hackathon

Feb. 23, 2024 - Feb. 25, 2024

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Join C4 and TIE for our Spring 2024 Hackathon! The theme this year is green initiatives and sustainability!

Schedule:

  • Friday
    • Check-in: 5:30 pm
    • Kick-off: 6 …

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Beginner · Social · Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
IN-PERSON SWE Hackathon 2024

Feb. 18, 2024

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About the challenge

The Georgia Tech Society of Women Engineers (GT SWE) is hosting a Hackathon, a 2-day event where high school students have the …

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Beginner · Health · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
IN-PERSON [See desc for more info] PlanetUnity Winter '23 - WORLD

Feb. 17, 2024 - Feb. 25, 2024

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Planet Unity is hosting their second large event on Feb 17-24, 2024!

 

In person venue will be available and is mandatory to attend from Feb …

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Beginner · Social · San Francisco, California, United States
IN-PERSON Code for Change 2024

Feb. 10, 2024

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ABOUT THE CHALLENGE

Calling all programmers-- seasoned and inexperienced alike! On February 10th, SHPE, ACM, ,Dream Team Engineering, Girls Who Code, Software Engineering Club, Gator …

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Beginner · Education · Social · Gainesville, Florida, United States
IN-PERSON Community Collab Night

Feb. 10, 2024 - Feb. 18, 2024

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What are we doing??

The goal of the event is to build better relationships within the tech community in the OC and inspire people to …

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Beginner · Low/No-Code · Irvine, California, United States
IN-PERSON Hacklytics 2024: Around the World

Feb. 9, 2024

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What is Hacklytics?

Hacklytics is a 36-hour data science-focused hackathon hosted by Data Science @ GT, the largest data science club at Georgia Tech. Each …

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Beginner · Fintech · Machine Learning · Atlanta, Georgia, United States

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