Name: Houston Hackathon 2025
Start: 2025-09-05T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-07T23:59:00-05:00
Location: Impact Hub Houston @ The Ion

Save the Date for the 2025 Houston Hackathon! This is your opportunity to put your skills to work for a good cause!
About this Event

Work on projects & learn about Houston! All skills welcomed!

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The Houston Hackathon is an opportunity for people with different skills to collaborate on projects to improve life in Houston. Don't think you've got what it takes to hang? That's simply not true. We'll help you get oriented. We invite all people who want to make a difference in our region to join us at the annual Houston Hackathon!

We envision a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable economy, where people are empowered with the skills, capacity, and resources they need to take action. We invite you to be a part of this vision by participating in this annual opportunity to develop systemic and transformative solutions for Houston – solutions that are rooted in local communities so that they are as diverse as Houston, and work for ALL of Houston.

We invite all people who want to make a difference in our region to join us at the annual Houston Hackathon! This is a “civic” hackathon, focused on ideating, designing, and developing both policy-based and tech solutions to some of Houston’s greatest challenges. Project stakeholders will be there from the city, county, local organizations, and Houston's impact community!

Houston Hackathon Schedule // Sept 5th In Person Kickoff

12PM Check-in, Coffee + Networking
12:30PM Welcome Remarks, House Rules and HouHack Overview
12:45PM Houston Hackathon Challenge Presentations
1:30PM Team Formation & Workspace Setup
2:00PM Lunch + Hacking Begins!
2:30PM Lightning Talk: Design Thinking
2:45PM Lightning Talk: Prepare Your Pitch
3:00 PM Coaching & Feedback Sessions
3:50PM Wrap-up and Next Steps

*Friday, Sept 5th will be in person from 12PM-4PM. We will not meet again on the 6th or 7th! Teams will continue working offsite before the Devpost submission deadline of 11:45PM on Sunday.*
Houston Hackathon Next Steps Schedule

Sept 7 @11:45PM -- Project Submissions Due on DevPost
Sept 8-10: Judges will review submissions on DevPost and submit their rankings.
Sept 12: Winners Announced!!

Thank you to our sponsors and community partners:
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