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WHEN AND WHERE?

WHEN IS SPACE APPS 2019?

Space Apps 2019 will be held at all locations the weekend of October 18-20, 2019. Some locations hold pre-event meetups in the period leading up to Space Apps weekend so that participants can meet one another and learn valuable skills.

WHERE IS SPACE APPS?

Find a Space Apps event being held near you by browsing our Location pages (coming soon). If you don’t see a physical location near you, attend our Virtual Event!

Registering for the Space Apps Virtual Event will allow you to collaborate with any of the other Virtual Event attendees to form teams and create projects that answer this year’s challenges. You will be able to chat virtually with NASA experts during hackathon weekend, and you’ll be eligible for global judging by NASA just like anyone at a physical Space Apps location.

Space Apps is a NASA

incubator innovation program.

WHO AND WHY?

WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN SPACE APPS?

All are welcome in Space Apps. The common thread among Space Apps participants is that you are interested in space science and exploration, you are creative, and you want to solve problems. Over 18,000 people from 75 countries and in 200 cities around the world participated in the 2018 International Space Apps Challenge. If you can’t find a Space Apps event located near you, join the Virtual Event online, and do the Space Apps challenge from your home!

Space Apps builds connections. As a part of Space Apps, you are part of a global hackathon community that embraces collaboration across borders, sectors, and cultures to bring about paradigm-shifting innovation.

WHY DOES NASA HOLD SPACE APPS?

Space Apps introduces problem-solvers worldwide to NASA’s free and open data. NASA missions to Earth, our Sun and solar system, and out into the universe – all gather data in pursuit of new knowledge, to expand our understanding through new scientific discoveries, and to help us to improve life on Earth. By using NASA data to solve each year’s challenges, Space Apps teams learn about NASA’s data, and share in the creation and application of the knowledge that results.

Space Apps inspires collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking, fosters interest in Earth and space science and exploration, and encourages the growth and diversity of the next generation of scientists, technologists, designers and engineers.Space Apps is managed by the Earth Science Division, Science Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC

WHAT IS THE SPACE APPS CHALLENGE?

Since its inception in 2012, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge has become the world’s largest global hackathon, engaging thousands of citizens across the globe to use NASA’s open data to build innovative solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space.

Space Apps inspires local communities to come together, think intensely, and create solutions to important problems. Each year, Space Apps engages thousands of individuals in cities around the world to work with NASA’s open source data in a 48-hour sprint. Teams of technologists, scientists, designers, entrepreneurs, artists, and others collaborate to answer some of the most pressing challenges on Earth and in space.

NASA

How does Space Apps work?

On one weekend each year, with the help of NASA’s Global Organizing Team (fondly known as the GO Team), hundreds of local leads around the world host events in a 48-hour sprint in which their participants hack solutions to challenges that NASA proposes, creating games, smartphone and computer apps, videos, teaching tools, and much more.

The challenges change each year within the theme of Earth and space. Some of the most popular challenges last year included subjects ranging from autonomous spacecraft inspection, to monitoring disasters, to exploring the beauty of the Universe.

Space Apps is a NASA

incubator innovation Program