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Space Apps Cleveland 2016 Wrap Up

Space Apps Cleveland 2016 was held at the NASA Glenn Research Center on April 22-24, 2016. It was a huge success for many reasons:

1. The location reached its goal of 150 registrations.

2. Seventeen projects were submitted from the Cleveland location.

3. For the first time, youths participated in the event.

4. Some new features of the event included having the NASA Glenn Band perform, presence at the event by NASA librarians, the NASA Gift shop was available for participants to buy items.

5. Makegear, a local manufacturer of 3D printers, provided four printers and two of their employees

6. A NASA history quiz by Anne Mills, NASA Glenn Historian

7. A talk from David L. Stringer, Director of the Plum Brook Management Office (Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force, Ret.)

8. Tours of the Graphics and Visualization Lab and SLOPE Lab.

A big thank you to the collaborators on the event: OHTec, Expedient, Cleveland Tech Consulting, and MakerGear.

The projects nominated for global competition were:

D.R.E.A.M (Damon Recovery and Extraction Air Machine)

Star Whal

The Dragonfly

A local winner was

High Power Density Electric Motor

A distinguished group of judges made the tough decisions. From left to right: Sean Gallagher, NASA Glenn CIO; Therese Griebel, NASA Glenn Director of Strategy; Olivier Izad, Explorys; Phil Abel, Deputy of Mechanisms and Tribology Branch at NASA Glenn; and Herb Schilling, Space Apps organizer. The fifth judge, Doug Meil, also of Explorys, was unable to stay for the photo.

The event attracted the attention of the press including:

1. Local minds take on the Space Apps Challenge

2. Recap: Space App Challenge at NASA Glenn

Thank you to Rami Daud, Gary Nolan, Audrey O’Bryon and Brian Sommers for the use of their photos in this blog post.

NASA Glenn to Host Cleveland Location of International Space Apps Challenge 2016

We are excited to announce that for the second year in a row, the NASA Glenn Research Center will be hosting the Cleveland location for the International Space Apps Challenge. Here is a short video about the Challenge.

The event will take place April 22-24, 2016 in NASA Glenn’s beautiful, state-of-the-art Mission Integration Center.

The event is done in collaboration with OHTec and Cleveland Tech Events and is part of OHTec’s Tech Week, which takes place from April 13 through 24.

Last year, the Cleveland location had the fourth highest number of attendees in the US.

For more images from last year, take a look at our picture gallery from 2015.

This year the goal is to have even more participants. As part of NASA Glenn’s 75th anniversary in 2016, the event should be bigger and better than ever! Some key features of this year’s event:

The local theme will be the 75th Anniversary of NASA Glenn

Two outstanding speakers:

David L. Stringer, Director of the Plum Brook Management Office (Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force, Ret.)

Anne Mills, NASA Glenn History Officer

Music by the NASA Glenn Band

Opportunity to purchase items from the NASA Glenn Exchange/Gift shop

NASA librarians will be available for part of the event to help participants find information and data

Additional 3D printers

Oculus Rifts, Leap Motions for use at the event

Master of Ceremony for the event will be Matt Murray who is also the MC for the FIRST Buckeye Regional

More subject matter experts to help participants

Tours:

Graphics and Visualization Lab

Simulated Lunar Operations (SLOPE) Lab

NASA Trivia Game

Here is the Agenda ( subject to minor changes ) :

Friday, April 22: 5:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Music by the NASA Glenn Band

Free food

6:00 PM: Welcome

6:15 PM: Presentation by David L. Stringer, Director of the Plum Brook Management Office (Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force, Ret.)

7:00 PM: Overview of the event including rules and security issues

7:15 PM: NASA history quiz with prizes !

7:30 PM: Team forming

8:00 PM: Stand-up with team leads

9:00 PM: Wrap-up but doors will close at 10:00 PM

Saturday, April 23, 8:00 AM to midnight

8:00 AM: Continental breakfast

8:15 AM: Welcome and stand-up with team leads

8:30 AM: Break into teams

11:00 AM - 2:00 PM: NASA Glenn Exchange/Gift Shop available for item purchase - cash only

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM: NASA librarians available for consultation

12:00 PM:

Lunch

Presentation on the History of NASA Glenn by Anne Mills, NASA Glenn History Officer

12:45 PM: Stand-up with team leads

6:00 PM: Dinner

6:30 PM: Stand-up with team leads

Teams can work up until midnight

Sunday, April 24, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

8:00 AM: Continental breakfast

8:15 AM: Stand-up with team leads

12:00 PM: Lunch

3:00 PM: Project presentations and awards

5:00 PM: End of event

Please join us! Participants of all ages, skills, and experience levels are encouraged to sign up. This is much more than a software hackathon.

The only restriction is that, unfortunately, participation at the host location is restricted to U.S.Citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs), also known as Permanent Resident Aliens (PRAs) or Green Card Holders, U.S. Citizens Representing a Foreign Entity, and persons with multiple citizenships (one of which is U.S.).

The online processes to sign up will begin on March 21 at https://2016.spaceappschallenge.org/. For more information about the event, follow @spaceappsCLE on Twitter or contact Herb Schilling at [email protected].

The Energy Gauntlet project won first place. Raju Shah, Deputy CIO at the NASA Glenn Research Center, holding the quadcopter that was part of the project, joins the team on stage. From left to right are: Will Yaworsky, Tristan Hearn, Carl Shotwell, and Gilligan, the telepresence robot.

The team that worked on the Cæléstis project won second place. With Raju Shah, Deputy CiO at the NASA Glenn Research Center, in the middle, are the team members from left to right: Eugene Malinskiy, Daniel Dudley, Ilya Malinskiy, and Steve Mieskowski. Team member Justin Nolan was not present.

Scenes from the project presentations.

The main organizers of the Cleveland Space Apps Challenge are hard at work. In bottom photo it is, left to right, Sarah Dutkiewicz, Brad Nellis, and Herb Schilling.

The participants gather for a group photo to thank everyone who put on the event.

The participants gather for a group photo to thank everyone.

NASA Glenn’s iLab supplied a 3D printer for the Space Apps Challenge.

There was a demo of high speed photography by NASA Glenn’s Imaging Technology Center.

Images of the teams working on their amazing projects.

The Space Apps Challenge participants had a chance to tour NASA Glenn’s Graphics and Visualization Lab.

Some of the organizers of the event have a photo taken with an astronaut suit mockup. From left to right, Sarah Dutkiewicz, Calvin Robinson, Herb Schilling, Brad Nellis.

The project leaders gather for the Saturday morning stand-up.

Having fun at the Space Apps Challenge in Cleveland. Some of the participants brought in their quadcopters.

Space Apps participants working hard on their projects.

Matt Melis giving his talk on “Use and Application of Scientific Imaging Technology in Support of NASA’s Aeronautics and Space Programs”.

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