Space Apps Sylva, NC was held on October 19th, 20th & 21st. Thank you to the 17 people who joined the International Space Apps Challenge at this location.The local results, including the work of 2teams, can be found below!
Thanks Sylva, NC!
Global Nominees
We wish our global nominees the best of luck!
Join us for NASA's hackathon!
We want you if you are...
- A programmer, a data scientist, an engineer, a storyteller, a student, an educator, a project manager, an entrepreneur
- You love data and you want to transform NASA’s open data sets into real world applications
- You are passionate about Earth & space and you want to join in building our future together for the benefit of humanity.
- You love hardware. Yes! Hardware projects welcome.
- Bring your laptop, your dreams, your biggest thinking... imagine what we can do together!
Schedule (All times US/Eastern)
Friday, October 18th
Kickoff in Burrell Building: Register, mingle, form teams. Get oriented. Learn about the challenges, ask questions and get inspired by our speaker.
The guest speaker is Dr. Bronson Messer, a computational astrophycist from Oak Ridge TN and faculty member at UTK. See his page here: http://astro.phys.utk.edu/bronson/
Saturday, October 19th
Doors open and teams begin tackling this year's challenges.
Lunch - bring your own for now. We're working on a sponsor.
Doors close, but you can continue working remotely.
Sunday, October 20th
Doors open. Make your finishing touches and get ready for presentation.
Lunch
Presentations begin & will be live streamed from our Facebook page
Guest Speaker - Dr. Mary Hemphill. North Carolina's first director of Computer Science and Technology Education.
Awards presented
Hackathon concludes!

