Craig Benson (mercyCoach)

I have over 20 years of software development experience. ( also coaching endurance sports ) and working on a carbon removal blog.

Daly City, California, United States
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DevNetwork [AI + ML] Hackathon 2025

South San Francisco, CA, USA

Join the nation's largest challenge-driven in-person and online hackathon @ AI DevSummit 2025!

$12,500 in prizes
May 12 – 29, 2025
841 participants

PyTorch Annual Hackathon 2021

Online

Welcome to the Official PyTorch Annual Hackathon 2021!

$39,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1915 participants

AWS Graviton Hackathon

Online

Build or migrate an application to Amazon EC2 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton2 processors for a chance to win $10,000 cash and a trip to re:Invent 2021

$45,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1245 participants

Microsoft U.S. Azure IoT Hack for Sustainability

Online

Save the planet and develop your skills with Azure IoT

$10,000 in prizes
Winners announced
319 participants

Azure AI Hackathon

Online

Build AI-powered apps with pre-trained models or create your own machine learning models

$25,500 in prizes
Winners announced
1918 participants

Climate Hackathon

Online

Hack the climate - for a sustainable world!

€6,000 in prizes
Winners announced
410 participants

Microsoft Azure U.S. Hack for Accessibility

Online

Grow your cloud skills and harness the power of Azure, with services like AI, to amplify human capability for more than one billion people around the world with a disability.

$10,000 in prizes
Winners announced
444 participants

The HERE Map Data Hackathon

Online

Join and start building solutions for the public, local communities and businesses using HERE Data Layers.

$8,500 in prizes
Winners announced
480 participants

API World Hackathon 2020

Online

The API World 2020 Hackathon is the nation's largest API hackathon.

$15,500 in prizes
Winners announced
180 participants

Alexa Skills Challenge: Alexa Conversations

Online

Discover the Future of Natural Alexa Interactions

$101,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1800 participants

AWS Data Exchange Challenge

Online

Build answers to tough questions on AWS using hundreds of data sets from AWS Data Exchange

$35,700 in prizes
Winners announced
1327 participants

DocuSign Good Code Hackathon

Online

A global hackathon for the greater good

$58,000 in prizes
Winners announced
577 participants

PyTorch Summer Hackathon 2020

Online

Welcome to the Global PyTorch Summer Hackathon! #PyTorchSummerHack

$25,500 in prizes
Winners announced
2462 participants

CDP Climate Hackathon

Online

Create solutions to three distinct climate challenges using CDP’s data

$4,500 in prizes
Winners announced
204 participants

Amazon Raise-up Buildathon

Online

Build sustainable solutions using AWS to ensure the survival of nonprofits and cultural institutions

$40,800 in prizes
Winners announced
860 participants

Local Hack Day: Share

Online

Join your local tech community for a global digital finish-up-athon, demo day, & celebration of learning, building, & sharing!

Non-monetary prizes
Winners announced
279 participants

AWS Marketplace Developer Challenge: ML Powered Solutions

Online

Develop a creative solution with ready-to-use ML models from AWS Marketplace deployed on Amazon SageMaker

$58,000 in prizes
Winners announced
1052 participants

DeveloperWeek 2020 Hackathon

San Francisco, CA, USA

The Nation's Largest Challenge Driven Hackathon

$56,000 in prizes
Feb 15 – 16, 2020
583 participants

GridShift Hackathon by Silicon Valley Clean Energy

San Francisco, CA, USA

Accelerate the Transformation to a Smart, Clean and Equitable Grid

$16,000 in prizes
Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2020
117 participants

API 2019 Hackathon

San Jose, CA, USA

The world's largest API integration Hackathon

$20,445 in prizes
Oct 9 – 10, 2019
96 participants

Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon

Online

Check out the current Azure AI Hackathon:

$23,000 in prizes
Winners announced
895 participants

Decentralized Application Hackathon

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Build decentralized applications for IoT, AI@Edge, Blockchain apps to run on our decentralized cloud

Non-monetary prizes
Jan 24 – 31, 2019
66 participants

Genomelink Hackathon 2.0

Online

Genomelink Hackathon 2.0: Build hyper-personalized consumer applications using insights from DNA data with Genomelink API

$7,000 in prizes
Winners announced
178 participants

Disrupt SF Hackathon 2018

Online

TechCrunch's Hackathon Goes Global

$154,620 in prizes
Winners announced
990 participants