Top five online hackathons | beginner friendly

Here are top ten online hackathons.

1. SLC (Stembay learning center) online hackathon

2. Hackathon for beginners

3. Girls who code hackathon

4. Congressional App challenge

5. Milpitas hack

The following is a list of hackathon event resources.

The following is a list of useful sites for hackathon preparation.

Most complete list of hackathon events:

Major League Hack (for university students): https://mlh.io/ 

Project inspiration: https://devpost.com/ 

Up&coming hackthons: https://devpost.com/hackathons 

High school hackathons https://hackathons.hackclub.com/ 

All Hackathons https://allhackathons.com/themes/beginner/ 

DoraHacks https://dorahacks.io/ 

https://www.airmeet.com/hub/blog/major-hackathons/ 

https://www.idtech.com/blog/hackathons-for-beginners

Stembay Online Hackathon

Verified 2025 hackathon list and details (time and format)

Hackathon events in California

https://www.eventbrite.com/d/united-states--california/hackathon/

Trivalley Hacks https://www.trivalleyhacks.org/ 

Hackathon in San Jose https://allevents.in/san%20jose/hackathons#

Hayward https://lu.ma/elslsy0w

City of Cupertino https://www.cupertino.gov/Parks-Recreation/Events/Hack-Cupertino 

San Joaquin Hackathon https://www.h2ohackathon.org/ 

Oakland https://oaklandpostonline.com/53608/campus/quackathon-grizzhacks-celebrates-its-seventh-edition/ 

Agentforce Hackathon by Devpost https://agentforcehackathon.devpost.com/ 

Hack Illinois https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=hackathon+in+illinois

Chicago Hackathon https://hackathons.hackclub.com/list-of-hackathons-in-chicago

Central Illinois https://www.uis.edu/news/innovation-center-blog/top-hat-hackers-hackathon

IIT Pubic Safety Hackathon https://www.firstnet.gov/newsroom/media/coders-participate-public-safety-hackathon-illinois-institute-technology

Illinois Tech https://www.iit.edu/events/hackrtc

Chicago Innovate https://www.chicagoinnovate.tech/hackathon 

Pitch Illinois https://pitchillinois.org/ 

UT Dallas Hackathon https://hackutd.co/

HackTX https://hacktx.com/ 

Seattle area https://www.meetup.com/seattle-hackathons/ 

Bellevue https://www.huskyadapt.me.uw.edu/events/kcls-hackathon 

Philadelphia https://drexel.edu/cci/partnerships/corporate/philly-codefest/ 

AI Summit New York https://newyork.theaisummit.com/features-2024/ai-hackathon 

India Hackathon https://www.sih.gov.in/ 

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/latest-news/top-10-coding-hackathons-that-beginners-to-should-attend-in-2022 

https://acehack.uem.edu.in/

Startup India https://www.startupindia.gov.in/content/sih/en/ams-application/application-listing.html 

Canada Hack the North https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=hack+the+north 

South Florida tech club https://techhubsouthflorida.org/hackathon/ 

ETH Europe https://ethglobal.com/

AI

College Hackathon

Cornell https://hackathon.cornell.edu/

MIT AI https://raise.mit.edu/events/global-ai-hackathon-2024/

University of Maine https://calendar.umaine.edu/event/bring-your-own-brain-hackathon-2/2025-03-29/ 

Wehack UTD https://www.wehackutd.com/ 

Brasil https://hackathonbrasil.com.br/ 

https://www.novascholar.education/blog-posts/10-hackathons-for-beginners-to-participate-in

https://www.wearedevelopers.com/en/magazine/383/hackathons-for-beginners 

https://blog.ecoism.in/top-10-hackathons-for-beginners-2023/

Beginner friendly Hackathons

https://www.bestcolleges.com/bootcamps/guides/hackathons-for-beginners/ 

Beginner friendly Hackathon https://www.lumiere-education.com/post/10-hackathons-for-beginners

https://www.veritasai.com/veritasaiblog/10-best-online-hackathons-for-beginners

https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs

https://www.quora.com/Which-hackathons-are-the-most-friendly-for-beginners-at-programming

https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/hackathon-for-beginners/

Stanford Law School LLM in law Hackaton

https://law.stanford.edu/event/llm-x-law-hackathon-stanford-5/

AI and cloud Hackathon: https://unstop.com/hackathons 

Hack Earth https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/hackathon/ 

H2S: Hack to skill https://hack2skill.com/ 

Reskill Hackathons https://reskilll.com/allhacks 

Federal AI General Services Administration https://www.gsa.gov/technology/government-it-initiatives/federal-ai-hackathon

World Climate Research Hackathon https://www.wcrp-esmo.org/activities-and-events/wcrp-global-km-scale-hackathon-2025 

Devfolio https://devfolio.co/hackathons

Girls

https://girlswhocode.com/ 

Google summer of code https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs 

Girl Hackathon India https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/girl-hackathon 

Patel story https://www.womenofinfluence.ca/2025/03/26/you-need-to-meet-ahana-patel-a-15-year-old-innovator/

Level up https://girldevelopit.com/virtual-hackathon/

https://verso.ac.th/hack/

Corporate and Government

American Airline https://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2024/Annual-hackathon-paves-path-for-IT-students-to-join-American-Airlines-ID-BK-11/default.aspx  

SAS Hackathon https://www.sas.com/en/events/sas-innovate.html 

https://www.sas.com/sas/events/hackathon.html G

Walmart https://careers.walmart.com/undergraduate-internships 

Google https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/25 

NASA https://data.nasa.gov/ 

IBM https://www.stocktitan.net/news/IBM/2025-call-for-code-engages-developers-to-build-ai-solutions-that-30ntnqjpi7pi.html 

Meta https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-more-potential-meta-aitx-152437066.html 

JP Morgan https://careers.jpmorgan.com/us/en/students/programs/tfsg-hackathons?search=&tags=location__Americas__UnitedStatesofAmerica 

SportsPro Hackathon https://hackathon.sportspro.com/ 

Meta hackathon for veterans https://www.fallin.today/ 

Umbrella and platform sites

Best place to find Hackathons https://medium.com/@jonathanallengrant/the-7-best-websites-to-find-a-hackathon-the-hacklife-guide-3e420f2a565b 

List of lists https://www.thetechedvocate.org/how-to-find-a-hackathon-in-your-area/ 

Calendar view in USA https://devitjobs.com/events 

Aaqib Ali https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/top-websites-discover-exciting-hackathons-coding-challenges-aaqib-ali-flcmf/ 

DEVPOST: Home for Hackaton https://devpost.com/ 

Google Events https://developers.google.com/events

Sprint list https://www.sprint.dev/  

Fablecon https://fablecon.com/resources/online-hackathon-for-beginners/ 

Hackathon guides

https://hackathon.guide/

Beginner https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-blog/hackathon-for-beginners-a-guide-to-getting-started-in-2025 

Hack NC https://hacknc.com/ 

How team Agent Halo won in TDX Agentforce https://www.salesforceben.com/how-team-agent-halo-won-100k-at-the-tdx-agentforce-hackathon/ 

Microsoft blog https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/work-life/hackathon/ 

https://medium.com/@7594hsj/hackathon-success-guide-from-novice-to-hackathon-expert-97951da28396 

https://www.inspiritai.com/blogs/ai-blog/hackathons-for-beginners

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/tag/hackathon/ 

First Hackathon

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/navigating-your-first-hackathon-beginners-guide-katya-ryazantseva-3nnvf/

https://www.galvanize.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-your-first-hackathon/ 

Hackathon space

https://www.peerspace.com/plan/hackathon

https://www.spacebase.com/en/san-jose/hackathon/ 

https://youtu.be/HUqPIgdlYrM?si=isdOom2BibzCidWh 

Google Hackathon

30000 dollars in Prize?

Some low quality links (but for some reason ranked high in Google)

I found a lot of out dated links.

Hackathons by city https://www.hackathon.com/city

Company hackathons: https://www.eventbrite.com/d/online/hackathons/ 

Hacker earth https://www.hackerearth.com/challenges/hackathon/

Ideas

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/project-ideas-for-hackathons/

Training and schools

https://www.codeninjas.com/ 

http://stembay.org

First Lego League https://www.firstlegoleague.org/ 

Bootcamp and job support https://www.hackreactor.com/explore-hack-reactor-coding-bootcamps/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=learn%20to%20code&utm_campaign=3_NB_Upper&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7pO_BhAlEiwA4pMQvHsKnEF8uqOQk9UgY3S6jAEuX2Z4ooUuFXyYfmkhEzRSt6I1cPFFMhoC86YQAvD_BwE

Angel Hack AngelHack

The stakes get higher when you're competing for a 12 week accelerator and Global Demo Day in SF. You'll not only compete with other students but other 30-40 year olds looking to build a real startup. A few winning teams have formed into startups and have been acquired by companies such as Google.

https://masterclass.hackathon.com/ 

Advanced level

Machine Learning Hackathon https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2020/10/ultimate-beginners-guide-top-10-machine-learning-hackathons/

AI Encode

https://www.encode.club/

ML and AI hackathons

Open Hackathons: https://www.openhackathons.org/s/upcoming-events 

Verified 2025 hackathon lists

Some hackathons are no longer hosted. Here are some that are verified to be active.

Congressional App Challenge, hackathon - October 24, 2024. Link.

Milpitas high school hackathon - in person, May 24, 2025. Link.

United Hack - online, July 11 to July 13, 2025. Link.

https://youtu.be/kkpUZF1MGJU?si=9ClaagzYlEeXAqrj