Pittsburgh

The Event

Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh 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!

Pittsburgh 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 Slack workspace and other event software will be emailed to all registrants soon.

Schedule (subject to change)

Day 1

9:00am - Welcome, opening comments, logistics

9:30am - Final team formation

10:00am - Development begins

12:00pm - Lunch break

1:00pm - Development continues

4:00pm - Optional progress check, development continues

5:00pm - Dinner break

6:00pm - Development continues

Day 2

10:00am - Event updates, logistics updates

10:15am - Development continues

12:00pm - LOCAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE

12:00pm - Lunch break

1:30pm - Presentations

3:00pm - End of presentations

4:00pm - Awards

5:00pm - Post event social

11:59pm - GLOBAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Local Awards

People's Choice

Best Art Project (if applicable)

Best Data Visualization or Infographic (if applicable)

Best Use of an Open Source 3D or Game Engine (if applicable)

Global Awards

The best local projects will be nominated for global judging, and global winners will be announced in early 2023. Projects not related to the official challenges are welcome, but they are not eligible for global awards.

Partners

Umbra, Santa Barbara CA, Austin TX

https://umbra.space

Umbra designs, builds, launches, and operates satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring.

Code & Supply, Pittsburgh PA

https://codeandsupply.co

Code & Supply is a community for consummate, conscientious software professionals building software, community, and friendships together.