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NASAInternational Space Apps ChallengeCleveland

The NASAInternational Space Apps ChallengeCleveland applications are open!
Dates: 1-2 October (Saturday and Sunday)
Location: NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is the biggest hackathon in the world, and Cleveland is annually partnering up with NASA Glenn Research Center where the hackathon will take place. Our energetic Local Lead, Martina Dimoska, and her team, this year are vouching for inclusivity by enabling two platforms for participation in a hybrid model, on-site and online.

You can participate ON SITE if you are a US Citizen or a US Lawful Permanent Resident.
You can participate ONLINE, from anywhere in the world, whilst being immersed in an online experience of the event, where you can follow the on-site activities through a live stream and communicate with the teams seamlessly.

This year, the theme for the NASA Space Apps Challenge is ”Make Space” which celebrates inclusivity, at Space Apps, “there’s always space for one more”.

Sign up for THE EVENT OF THE YEAR in Clevland to show your creative side! No matter which field you're in, join us! You can be an artist, influencer, creative, cook, designer, doctor, lawyer, or into STEM and Space, we'll still find you a slot and make sure you grow and learn! Empowering your curiosity is one of our goals. The world needs YOUR ideas! All space enthusiasts are welcome, including but not limited to software engineers, designers, UI/UX analysts, writers, and artists! For our IT Geeks, Space Lovers, and Engineering Fam, of course, you can show your skillset in Cleveland technology: Robotics, software, education, medicine, and many other areas!

Contribute to applications and other projects that solve problems or put forth new ideas, and can optionally make use of NASA's great open data. We love creating diverse teams and learning from each other. Our community is safe and welcoming to anyone who wants to participate! For the software projects, prototypes with some functionality are great, but we will be focusing on the ideas and the feasibility of completion, so "some code" will be sufficient in many cases!

Cleveland will have local event winners, and select projects will be nominated for global judging.

Specific challenges will be announced, but there will also be a freestyle category for those who wish to undertake space-related projects of any type. These projects will not be eligible for global judging, but we will promote them widely. We are especially interested in freestyle projects related to art, advanced visualization, and open-source 3D engines.

Information about our Slack workspace and other event software will be emailed to all registrants soon. Feel free to contact us at spaceappscle@gmail.com as well.

LOCAL AWARDS

1st Place Award - Galactic Impact - Team Starflock

2nd Place Award - Stellar Blast - Team Geyser of Galaxies

3rd Place Award - Solar Effect - Team GoSpaceGo

We have an award eligible for Global Nomination, as well as Local Awards and a lot of surprises! Every participant goes away with new friendships, acquired skills, a bigger network, and a certificate!

Based on how many local projects were submitted, only one, the 1st Place Award will be nominated for Global Judging.

Projects not related to the official challenges were most welcome, but they are not eligible for global awards.
We hope you enjoyed our Local Awards! We thank you all for your engagement and participation!
The judges were faced with a lot of hard decision-making since all of the projects were so outstanding!

MEET THE WINNERS!

1st Place Award - Galactic Impact - Which will be nominated as the award for the Global Judging is Team Starflock!
They solved the challenge -Take Flight: Making the Most of NASA’s Airborne Data.
You can see their project here:
https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/take-flight/teams/starflock-3/project

2nd Place Award - Stellar Blast is awarded to Team Geyser of Galaxies.
They solved the challenge - Learning Through the Looking Glass
You can see their project here:https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/through-the-looking-glass/teams/geyser-of-galaxies/project

3rd Place Award - Solar Effect is awarded to Team GoSpaceGo
They solved the challenge - Track the Space Station in 3D
You can see their project here:https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/2022-challenges/track-the-iss/teams/gospacego/project

We're so grateful for each and every one of you competing and we hope we can make a bigger and better hackathon next year with all of your help! Make sure you check out all of our teams and the remarkable effort participants worked on on the link below:
https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/cleveland/teams

You can utilize the ideas in your community, business, or agency and we'd love to see it happen!

Awards and Goodies provided by our Partners and Sponsors:

The 1st place got goodies from our partner Coppermoon Coffee, which included things like mugs, shirts, stickers, and coffee. They also got Mama's food jars and we know that Ajvar is delicious!

All winning teams got a hand-made trophy built by our partners at Trine University, a remarkable thank you to them, as well as thank you for the food they've provided as a general partner of the event. They were stellar!

We thank them for all they enabled us to achieve!

Meet the NASA Space Apps Cleveland Core Team:

Martina Dimoska (Local Lead),
Bobi Sofronijoski (Data Architect),
Andrej Janevski (Graphic Designer),
David Mukka Dimovski (Host),
Marko Paloski (Mentors Lead),
Dragan Mojsovski (Legal),
Stefani Hristov (Multimedia Specialist).

PARTNERS

NASA Glenn Research Center

The NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio designs and develops innovative technology to advance NASA’s missions in aeronautics and space exploration.

Trine University

Trine University is a private nonprofit university in Angola Indiana. Whether part of our ABET-accredited programs in biomedical, chemical, civil, electrical, computer, mechanical and software engineering, learning in our revitalized computer science and information technology programs, or gaining essential design engineering skills, students in Trine's Allen School of Engineering and Computing receive hands-on experience, the opportunity to work in state-of-the-art laboratories and personal attention from professors who have practical experience in their fields.

Max's Imports & Mama's

Mama’s Roasted Pepper Spreads & Dips are a traditional homemade style of Fine Specialty foods. Made from traditional recipes. The process is farm to table the same day! Mama’s is 100% All Natural and made from only 4 ingredients: Roasted peppers, Roasted Eggplant, Sunflower Oil and Sea Salt. Mama’s is also Vegan, Vegetarian, Halal and Kosher Certified. Max’s Imports is the US importer and distributor of Mama’s Products. We are a family owned and operated company and in business for over 40 years and distributed throughout the United States. We are proud to share the Mama’s love and manta “Mama’s Knows Best”

Copper Moon Coffee

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Copper Moon Coffee is a family roastery in Lafayette, Indiana, focused on a simple mission: to create evenly roasted, uniquely smooth, high-grade coffee—giving you a perfectly satisfying taste that’s out of this world.

SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

The hackathon starts at 9:00 AM on October 1st and ends at 11:59 PM on October 2nd.

Time Zone in which we will operate is Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4). Calculate the time zone here.