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NASA Space Apps Sydney - NASA is on a mission to foster innovation through a diversity of perspectives. Empowered by open data, global citizens collaborate with strangers, colleagues, and friends to solve perplexing challenges in new and unexpected ways -- from designing an interactive space glove to natural language processing to clean water mapping. Students, experts, engineers, makers, artists, storytellers -- Space Apps is for everyone!
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- 2. NASA Space Apps Challenge • 48 hours, brainstorming and problem solving event. Hack + Marathon = Hackathon • One of the largest hackathons in the universe. • (NASA Open Innovation Program) NASA incubator innovation program
- 3. Team Venus Izadi Official Lead Organizer of NASA Space Apps Sydney Shayaan Malik Co-Organiser Nimish Shete Co-Organiser Kate Rubins Co-Organiser Hassan Zaheer Co-Organiser Adele Valeria Co-OrganiserRobert Parker Co-Organiser
- 5. Projects • Choose a challenge that captures your imagination and uses your skills • Form a team (4-6 people) • On Sunday you will create a project page that includes description of the project and resources used • You need to create a GitHub repo and submit the project under an open source license
- 6. Prizes • Everyone is a winner - All projects will be reviewed by NASA experts • Four local winners We will nominate three projects for global judging • Global winners will be invited to attend a NASA Rocket launch event (NASA will not cover travel expenses)
- 7. Agenda Information Night • 18:30 - Introduction to NASA Space Apps Sydney • 19:00 - Dr Jason Held, Space Mission • 19:30 - Introduction to challenge categories 2017 • 19:45 - Few notes from Sydney Winners 2016 • 20:00 - Forming teams (Visit Challenge Stations) • 20:30 - Pitch your idea • 22:00 - End of event
- 8. Key points Saturday 29th April • 09:45 - Live chat with NASA Kennedy Space Center • 09:30 - Space Mission workshop (Optional) • 11:30 - Virtual Reality workshop (Optional) VR testing station and devices will be available
- 9. Key points Sunday 30th April • 13:00 - Presentation workshop (Optional) • 16:00 - Submission deadline • 16:30 - Pitch presentations • 18:30 - Awards/Closing Remarks • 19:00 - Celebration/ After Party
- 10. Notes • Please note that the content of this hackathon is streaming globally in many levels • All participants will receive a certificate of attendance • Use "#SpaceApps", "#SpaceAppsSydney" in social media posts • You can join our International team
- 11. Welcome Dr. Jason Held • CEO of Saber Astronautics • PhD, Aerospace and Mechatronics, University of Sydney • BSc, Computer Science,Virginia Military Institute
- 12. #SpaceApps #SpaceAppsSydney NASA Space Apps Sydney @spaceappssydney @nasaspaceappssydney Space Apps Sydney @spaceappssydney NASA Space Apps Sydney spaceappssyd.slack.com
- 13. • 5 X Categories • 26 X Challenges • 2 X days • More than 120 cities • More than 150 participants 2017 Theme: Earth
- 16. The Earth and Us Challenges in this category will ask you to combine NASA Earth Science data with sociological and economic information to generate new understanding and perspectives on human- environment interactions.
- 17. Planetary Blues Challenges in this category will ask you to analyze and visualize NASA’s data on the hydrosphere (surface and groundwater, etc.) and the cryosphere (sea ice and ice sheets, etc.).
- 18. Warning! Danger Ahead! Challenges in this category will ask you to analyze NASA data to assist in monitoring natural disasters and phenomena associated with health risks, and to assess their impacts on life and property.
- 19. Our Ecological Neighborhood Challenges in this category will ask you to use NASA Earth Science data to study ecological systems and generate solutions to understand life here on Earth better (whilst addressing the UN’s SDGs).
- 20. Ideate and Create! Challenges in this category will ask you to interpret NASA Earth Science data creatively and design new means to experience NASA Earth Science data and technologies.
- 21. Welcome to NASA Space Apps Sydney 2017