Columbus

Welcome to Nasa International Space Apps Columbus, Ohio!

The Event

Columbus will be returning to the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for its 11th anniversary in 2022! This will be an IN PERSON event, subject to all COVID related mandates in place at the time.

Sign up for the event and show your pride in Columbus 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.

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 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!

Columbus will have a local event winner, 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 Discord channel and other event software will be emailed to all registrants soon.

FAQ

Q. Who is invited?

A. Anyone who is interested. Invitations are being publicized to The Ohio State University, Rev1 Ventures, Ohio Univesity, Kent State, Shawnee State University, as well as key local IT departments, and to the general public.

Q. Is there an age restriction?

A. Attendees under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult at all times. Attendees over the age of 90 should be accompanied by their children.

Q. Where, how and when do I sign up?

A. The registration for the event will become available 15-July. There will be a shiny 'Register' button available on this page for Columbus. There is more information in the participant faq.

Q. What should I do now in preparation for the event?

A. There is a Nasa International Space Apps Columbus, Ohio Facebook page to publicize monthly discussions leading up to the event and you can find resources on space data hackers wiki. Further, check out the 2021 official video on the youtube channel, as well as other regions such as SpaceAppsNYC, and a Liv's winning story.

Q. Is there a document I can share with my colleagues?

A. Here is a pdf invitation to local leaders.

Q. Will there be virtual collaboration tools / services provided by the local event host?

A. No. It is tempting to roll our own solution, however, it would be best for each team to use the virtual tools with which they have become accustomed or which may be mandated by their organization. It will be very helpful to do at least one test run prior to the event to make sure all team members have the expected features working, including headsets, microphones, screen-sharing, project read/write permissions, etc.

LOCAL EVENT COORDINATOR

Colin Rose - colin@objectiverealityvr.com

Want to help volunteer with this event? Please connect with objectivereality#6047 in the Objective Reality Inc Discord at link.