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🎉CONGRATULATIONS!🙌

We had a wondeful time with you all over the weekend, thank you for taking part and for showing us your awesome projects! You all did amazingly well!

🏆 First Place Local Winner : INTO THE VOID
🏆 Runner up: By Jove

Huge congrats to both teams!

After meeting this week and reviewing all the team submissions, our local lead team have put forward 🏆 INTO THE VOID as our global nomination, who continued working on their project right up until midnight! We wish them the best of luck.

📷 We've got some photos up at https://www.flickr.com/photos/196651557@N03/albums/72177720302640350 and will be making a short video which will go up on our Youtube page.

We can't wait to see all of your lovely faces back at the UK Met Office HQ in Exeter. This year we're sponsored by theJoint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence, South West Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applications and TechExeter CIC.

The weekend will be about meeting new people and solving interesting challenges together. Don't let the 'Apps' part put you off, the best teams are often the most diverse teams in terms of age, skills and experience. We have seen great projects made entirely from cardboard!

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC

• If you are a Met Office / JCEEI employee, you may still attend - please register by clicking the 'join the waitlist' button and register using your MetOffice email address.
• If you have already registered, we'll see you on Saturday at 9am! Please remember to bring a form of photographic ID with you (Passport, Driving License). Please note that under-18s need to be accompanied by an adult.
• If you have not yet registered, we're sorry, but you have missed the securtiy cutoff date and you won't be able to join us at the Met Office - but there are virtual events happening around the globe - including Bristol

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What is SpaceApps?

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is the largest global hackathon on Earth, for scientists, coders, designers, technologists and storytellers, amongst others. Participants from around the world come together over a 48 hour period to solve challenges (around 25 to choose from) submitted by NASA or the Met Office, which can be as diverse as: creating a video about climate change facts (and/or experiences in your area); using open source Earth data applications and augmenting these with other valuable data/analysis/features; simulating a space biology superhero to help understand space travel stresses; moonquake map app development of seismic data transmitted back from the moon. More information about the challenges can be found here: https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/

Participants range from multinational companies, government organisations and space agencies, small to medium businesses, through to university students and the wider general public. Last year 28,000 people, spanning 162 countries and territories took part. Global winners get invited by NASA to visit a rocket launch.

The two days at the Met Office hosted event include a buffet lunch and dinner for the Saturday and a buffet breakfast and lunch for the Sunday. Snacks and drinks will also be provided throughout the day.

• Check out what it's like to do SpaceApps at Exeter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMtYFoXU1g
• Chat with us in the TechExeter slack channel at #spaceapps

Pre-event bootcamps (optional)

We will be running 3x 2-hour bootcamps on Met Office data, tooling and data analytics on 27th - 29th September - these will be held at Exeter Phoenix from 2pm-4pm, and can also be joined virtually. If you would like to attend these workshops then please register at the following links:

• Tuesday Sep 27th, 2pm-4pm
  Introduction to Python for Environmental Science
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nasa-space-apps-bootcamp-introduction-to-python-for-environmental-science-tickets-415418627297
• Wednesday Sep 28th, 2pm-4pm
  Machine Learning with Weather Data
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nasa-space-apps-bootcamp-machine-learning-with-weather-data-tickets-415924871487
• Thursday Sep 29th, 2pm-4pm
  Introduction to Weather Climate Datasets
  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nasa-space-apps-bootcamp-introduction-to-weather-climate-datasets-tickets-415927599647

Note - you are welcome to attend these workshops even if you're not coming to SpaceApps!

Sponsors

We're proud to be working with the Joint Centre for Excellence in Environmental Intelligence, The Met Office, University of Exeter, South West Centre of Excellence in Satellite Applicatoins and TechExeter CIC