Hackathons for Beginners 2025

Beginner hackathons are the perfect launchpad for aspiring developers, students, and tech enthusiasts who are new to programming. These events offer a supportive and inclusive environment where you can learn by doing, collaborate with others, and build your very first project. Whether you're exploring web development, Python, data science, or design, beginner hackathons help you gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and real-world confidence. No prior coding skills required—just curiosity and the drive to learn.
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IN-PERSON Hack Our Community

Oct. 13, 2023 - Oct. 15, 2023

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Cornell DTI's Student-Run Hackathon Date: Oct 13-15 Eligible: Students Description Join us for a 48-hour tech sprint where coders, designers, and business minds converge. Learn, …

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beginner · social · Ithaca, New York, United States
IN-PERSON Autonomous Agents: Unleashing the Power of AI

Oct. 13, 2023 - Oct. 14, 2023

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**COLORADO SPONSORS: Visit this link to support the hackathon and be featured at the AI Peaks Conference** About the challenge Welcome to "Autonomous Agents: Unleashing …

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beginner · machine learning · web · Boulder, Colorado, United States
IN-PERSON Girls in Tech NYC ClimateHack 2023

Oct. 7, 2023 - Oct. 8, 2023

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This hackathon enables developers, creatives, and entrepreneurs from all over the NYC & tri-state area co-create solutions to some of the most pressing challenges facing …

IN-PERSON Boston University Welcome Back MiniHack

Oct. 7, 2023

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The Welcome Back Mini Hack is tailored specifically for underclassmen and transfer students so that students can begin to understand the world of innovations and …

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beginner · social · web · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
IN-PERSON Wildcat Fresh Hacks

Oct. 7, 2023

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About the challenge After 3 weeks of school, how can you create an impactful solution to help NU students be more productive, meet new friends …

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beginner · design · low/no-code · Evanston, Illinois, United States
IN-PERSON NASA Space Apps Challenge Mountain View

Oct. 7, 2023 - Oct. 8, 2023

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Dates October 7th and 8th 2023. Location NASA Ames Conference Center Building 3500 Severyns Ave, Moffett field, CA 94035 About the challenge The NASA International …

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beginner · education · machine learning · Mountain View, California, United States
IN-PERSON AUIB Hackathon

Oct. 4, 2023 - Oct. 5, 2023

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The GDSC Beginner-friendly Hackathon aims to introduce basic problem-solving techniques and have you apply them by solving programming challenges. This Hackathon will depend mainly on …

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beginner · low/no-code · Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
IN-PERSON Badger Hacks

Sept. 30, 2023 - Oct. 1, 2023

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About the challenge: Create a Web3 App Get started:

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beginner · Madison, Alabama, United States
IN-PERSON Carolina Data Challenge 2023

Sept. 30, 2023 - Oct. 1, 2023

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CDC is UNC’s weekend-long data science hackathon hosted by Carolina Analytics and Data Science (CADS) in partnership with the UNC Department of Computer Science. Hosted …

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beginner · databases · machine learning · Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
IN-PERSON AI HackTrack at LiU

Sept. 29, 2023

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About the challenge Join us for a Hackathon at Linköping University, where teams of students will come together to build innovative solutions using artificial intelligence. …

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