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2 Weeks To Space Apps Challenge!
Do you know where the nearest Space Apps Challenge location is to you on Oct 19-21? We're just over 2 weeks away from NASA's 7th annual global hackathon. All backgrounds & experience levels are welcome to "work for NASA for a weekend." Virtual participation available too
https://2018.spaceappschallenge.org/locations/map
Space Apps in October 2018
NASA has announced that their seventh annual International Space Apps Challenge will be the weekend of October 19-21, 2018!
Stay tuned to spaceappschallenge.org for the latest information on the Challenge categories, and for the opening of registration. We look forward to seeing you all there!
2018 Yuri’s Night Events in Central Florida
Yuri’s Night is a global celebration of humanity’s past, present, and future in space. Yuri’s Night parties and events are held around the world every April in commemoration of Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961 and the inaugural launch of the first Space Shuttle on April 12, 1981.
Just like Space Apps is in cities around the world, Yuri’s Night is too. There will be multiple locations in Central Florida each year. Here is the 2018 list.
Friday, April 6: Yuri's Fort Night @ ERAU (Daytona)
Thursday, April 12: Nerd Nite Orlando: World Space Party 2018 at The Geek Easy (Orlando)
Thursday, April 12: Yuri's Night Strikes Back at The Cloak & Blaster (Orlando)
Thursday, April 12: Yuri’s Night Celebrating 1st Manned Spaceflight at U.S. Space Walk of Fame Museum (Titusville)
Thursday, April 12: Yuris's Night Russian Imperial Stout, Sputnik release party at Bugnutty Brewing Company (Merritt Island)
Thursday, April 12: Yuri's Night at the Brewpub! Tomoka Brewing Company (Port Orange)
Friday, April 13: Yuri's Night Space Coast at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex under Shuttle Atlantis
Astronauts will be at the KSC event. Kennedy Space Center will have representatives at Nerd Nite Orlando and KSC events. The Titusville event will have a former NASA space shuttle launch director speaking.
International Space Apps Challenge participants from Orlando tour Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA Kennedy Space Center wrote an article about Space Apps Orlando visiting KSC’s Swamp Works Lab at the end of July!
3rd KSC Intern Space Apps Challenge
Interns from the NASA Pathways, NASA Internships, Fellowships & Scholarships (NIFS), Abacus, Jacobs, Millennium, and a.i. solutions, inc. came together on Friday, June 23 to participate in a one day Space Apps Challenge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. This team building event is a condensed version of NASA's annual global hackathon.
The 155 students divided into 32 teams with 4-6 people each, working on projects based on nine past Space Apps Challenges (see below). Their goal was to create a solution and develop prototypes and/or mockups to present in the afternoon. A few full-time employees visited the teams as they worked to offer insight and opinions on their ideas.
Everyone regrouped mid-afternoon to give 2 minute elevator pitches of their project to the other interns and interested full-time employees. It was a challenge for the students to express their solution in a short time, but they proved themselves up to the task and showcased their amazing work.
Those in attendance selected Where On Earth is Major Tom and Rove Marzer as the People's Choice Winners (one per pitch location). These teams lunched with the Center Director in the Astronaut Crew Quarters on June 28. Additional teams were recognized by full-time employee judges based on their pitches and some of these teams were awarded tours on center.
Together with Wednesday’s Innovation Training and Space Apps Boot Camp sessions, the students networked with one another, developed their team and leadership skills, and got a taste of working on intracenter teams. Additionally, they delved into Agency concerns outside of their day-to-day job and got to see what they could build with their peers in just a few hours.
Additional pictures of the event are available on this Facebook album. Friday, June 23 was International Women in Engineering Day, so we gathered the applicable interns and created a #IAmANASAEngineer video.
CubeSats for Asteroid Exploration
Dictionary of Earth
Earth Is Cool!
Geotagging Space and Aviation
Jet Set Mars
Let's go to the Beach!
Our Planet, Our Home
Space Jockey
Where on Earth
Space Apps is coming to Florida locations near you this weekend! (April 29-30, 2017)
Orlando, Tampa, Sarasota, & Jacksonville
Space Apps visit KSC for OSIRIS-REx Launch
We had a great visit last week of winners and organizers of the International Space Apps Challenge in for the OSIRIS-REx launch! We had 92 people travel in from outside Florida or even the USA. Over ninety of us gathered at Juice N’ Java in Cocoa Beach to exchange ideas and share our experiences with space and innovation. It’s always quite an experience to communicate with people on the other side of the country/world via email and social media & have them come to you in person!
Beth Beck, who currently leads Space Apps out of Office of the Chief Information Officer, wrote a great article about their experience. Katey Metzroth of Second Muse also did a write-up.
We also have a Storify for getting the most major posts in one place (Facebook not included). We’ve posted a small album to our Facebook, featuring all everyone going on the bus & our signature board, others’ photos (Debbie, Lisha), and retweeted many of the visitors’ posts on Twitter. A participant is a filmmaker & created this 4 min video about his experience. Gavin was a part of the Launch Sight team, the overall Kennedy Space Center winner for 2016 that worked on communicating the launch viewing experience to people far away. Another one took a 360 deg video of the whole group at the launch site waving and cheering for NASA, Space Apps, asteroids & more, plus a couple 360 photos (funny, serious, jump).
Update: A 360 degree video of launch operations along with the launch from near pad created by NASA was posted in January 2017.
Social with Space Apps 2016 Winners from Around the World!
We will have a social on Wednesday, September 7 starting at 5 p.m. at the Juice 'N Java Cafe (information below). Space Apps winners around the world will be visiting and can meet each other, NASA persons involved/interested in Space Apps; the local area Space Apps community will also be invited. Though this event is being coordinated by the Space Apps lead at KSC, the event is not sponsored by NASA; all attendees will be responsible for their own food and beverages. RSVP (optional) via Facebook or Meetup.
Juice 'N Java Cafe
75 N. Orlando Avenue
Cocoa Beach, FL 32931
Google Maps location
321-784-4044
Parking: the café has its own parking lot; just tell the attendant you’re there for Juice 'N Java. If the lot fills up, the attendant will direct you to their extended lot at a nearby bank.
Menu: Coffee, wine, beer, paninis, wraps, soup & salad, flatbreads and more!
Vegan? Across the street is The Green Room Cafe
Winners of KSC Space Apps Challenges for 2016
Here at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), we’ve had our challenge owners assemble panels and review all the video for their challenge. Via some tough decisions, they selected winning projects from the eligible submissions; some panels also chose to recognize teams for honorable mention.
We’re proud to announce this year’s KSC Space Apps Challenge winners, who along with the honorable mentions came from locations on 4 continents and the virtual participants:
Challenge: Geotagging Space and Aviation
Winner: CubeShot (London)
Honorable Mentions: Linkress & Avanautrice — A game that puts women's achievements front and centre (Tokyo & Sydney)
Challenge: Launch: A Global Experience
Winner: Launch Sight (York, England)
Honorable Mention: Live Launch (NYC)
Challenge: Space Route 66
Winner: SpacePort Futuristic Development (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
Challenge: Print My Rocket
Winner: 3D manifacture in rocket system (Ismailia, Egypt)
Honorable Mention: Printable Modular Rockets (Tampa, Florida)
Challenge: Backfill My Model
Winner: Slice & Dice (virtual)
We also had a separate panel of KSC judges review the winning project videos and select an overall KSC Space Apps Challenge winner. Launch Sight narrowly won over CubeShot! Launch Sight will be invited to a launch viewing opportunity along with the Space Apps Global Winners.
We enjoyed seeing the work done by all the teams and appreciate the time spent to create and explain your projects. The challenges relate to current work of those on the KSC judging panels, whether the teams were putting together design ideas or educational tools to communicate the work to the public. See teams around the world working on the KSC Challenges with our Storify.
We have playlists on our SpaceAppsKSC YouTube channel with all the videos (or links to those on Vimeo in the playlist description) for each challenge. We’ve also created a playlist to capture winners of KSC challenges from 2013 and on, including the videos of this year’s winners.
Videos of KSC Space Apps Challenge Projects
Thanks so much to everyone that worked on one of the five KSC challenges. We got some amazingly creative ideas out of it! The challenge owners and others in their field reviewed these projects and selected winners for each challenge. Here are YouTube playlists for each of the challenges:
Geotagging Space and Aviation (includes links in description to Vimeo videos)
Launch: A Global Experience
Space Route 66
Print My Rocket
Backfill My Model
There were several projects that submitted videos significantly longer than the 30 second limit. Though those projects did some amazing work and we looked at their work also, they were not eligible for KSC judging. The video length was posted in the announcement on KSC judging.
Space Apps 2016 with Central Florida & KSC
The weekend of April 22-24, Central Florida had three sites actively working on the International Space Apps Challenge: Orlando, Tampa, and Sarasota. John Sprague, the Deputy Chief Technology Officer for IT, came down from NASA HQ and visited all three sites. KSC provided judges, speakers, and volunteers at the Tampa and Orlando locations. We also provided additional NASA swag and Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex tickets for winners at all three sites. See pictures & more with our Storify.
Globally, over 15,000 participants registered and created 1,178 projects from locations in 61 countries. Tens of millions of people were reached over the weekend via Twitter alone. Book It to the Moon, a challenge written by Space Florida and sponsored by KSC, was the most popular challenge of the 25 available, with 92 projects solving it. For the five KSC written challenges, 140 projects were created; 80% of them came from outside the USA and more than half created a video.
Many of the teams put together a 30 second video about their project for judging and/or posterity. We’ve created YouTube playlists of videos from Central Florida teams and videos from teams solving the five KSC challenges this year.
We assisted the NASA HQ team with global judging and are wrapping up our own judges panels for the KSC written challenges now. The global winners and overall KSC winner will be invited to the OSIRIS-Rex launch viewing opportunity. We’re looking forward to the 2nd annual KSC Intern Space Apps Challenge with 150+ students on Friday, June 24.
Central Florida Data Boot Camps
Once again, #SpaceApps is hosting a virtual Women in Data Boot Camp the Friday (April 22) before Space Apps weekend. This year, they’re also encouraging locations to host their own data boot camps, encouraging participants to develop their skills, connect women with hackathons, and more!
Tampa Hackerspace is hosting their data boot camp on Sunday, April 17 from 12:30-5 p.m. They’ll have several women speak about data and space, then have sessions where participants can practice skills, form project teams for the following weekend, and more!
Orlando is not having a Space Apps specific data boot camp. However, Orlando Tech Week (April 18-24) has incorporated Space Apps and will be hosting many tech events throughout the week. As a part of this, weVENTURE will be hosting a 1-hour Women Who Code session (FREE) at The Iron Yard in downtown Orlando.
KSC Challenges Judging & Prize
KSC will conduct judging for each of its five challenges:
Print My Rocket
Backfill My Model
Launch: A Global Experience
Geotagging Space and Aviation
Space Route 66
To be eligible, teams attempting one of those challenges just need to submit the same elements as for global judging (even if they were not nominated for global judging). If the project was nominated for global judging, it will be considered for BOTH global and KSC judging.
The most notable item required in global judging is a 30 second video posted publicly about the project by Friday, April 29. Each challenge will have a panel of KSC experts review the eligible projects and select the top project.
The overall KSC challenge winning team will be invited to a NASA launch viewing opportunity with the Space Apps Global Winners!
We hope Space Apps participants consider attempting one of our challenges!
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The winning teams of each KSC challenge will be recognized on social media by Space Apps KSC. Of the winning teams, one will be selected as the overall 2016 KSC winner and will be invited to a NASA launch viewing opportunity! A select number of invitations will be issued to the team; the invitations are available for U.S. citizens as well as non-U.S. citizens. For invitation events, all non-U.S. citizens must be approved by NASA security 30 days prior to the event. All NASA invited guests (team members and their guests) will be responsible for their own transportation and any costs incurred to attend.
To be eligible for one of the five KSC challenge based category winners, the solution page must be created on spaceappschallenge.org no later than midnight PacificTime (GMT-7) on Sunday, April 24, 2016. The team must submit their solution under the same criteria that applies to global judging by midnight PacificTime (GMT-7) on Friday, April 29, 2016 (0700 GMT on April 30). Any #3DBackfill #GeoNASA #321Liftoff #PrintedRocket #SpaceRoute66 team can submit; your project does NOT have to be a global nominee from your location.
“The judges will review the finalists based on a short project description, a 30 second video, and project page links. Any code developed during the event weekend must be open source. To be eligible for global judging your project page must include a link to the code in a public repository.”
Regarding the video, recall the principles from the “240 Seconds to Glory” graphic. More tips in “30 seconds to Glory” graphic and short video.
KSC retains the right not to select a winner for any given challenge or an overall KSC winner. KSC winners are judged separately from the Space Apps Global Winners; eligible projects will be considered for both types of judging.
NASA KSC Expert Google Hangouts for Space Apps
We’ll be hosting Google Hangouts in the week of April 18 for challenges developed by Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Here’s the schedule with links to the event pages:
Monday, April 18 at 1530 GMT/ 11:30 a.m. EDT
NASA Simulation Expert and creator of the Backfill My Model challenge
Thursday, April 21 at 1900 GMT/ 3 p.m. EDT
What It's Like to Watch a Launch-In Person for Launch: A Global Experience challenge
Friday, April 22 at 1200 GMT/8:00 a.m. EDT
same as Saturday
Saturday, April 23 at 1830 GMT/2:30 p.m. EDT
Space Apps KSC lead on KSC developed challenges:
Print My Rocket
Backfill My Model
Launch: A Global Experience
Geotagging Space and Aviation
Space Route 66
Space Florida creator of Book it to the Moon challenge
Want to ask questions for the hangout? Send them in
via the Q&A feature on the Hangout (best if you’ll be watching live)
on Twitter to @SpaceAppsKSC or with the challenge's hashtag
email to [email protected]
Want to be a participant in the video chat? Contact [email protected] at least 2 hours prior to the hangout; earlier is better.
Curious what the hangouts will be like? Past KSC Space Apps Hangouts are available on YouTube, as these will be.
KSC will also hold judging and award a prize to the overall KSC challenge winning team.
Experts Google Hangouts happening week of April 18!
Follow our Google+ page to stay up on all the Google Hangouts coming up!
Space Apps Challenges LIVE!
The 25 challenges for the 2016 International Space Apps Challenge were published this week. Five of them are from Kennedy Space Center and one is from Space Florida!
Kennedy Space Center
Print My Rocket
Backfill My Model
Launch: A Global Experience
Geotagging Space and Aviation
Space Route 66
Space Florida
Book it to the Moon
Registration OPEN for Space Apps
You can now register for the fifth annual International Space Apps Challenge (NASA’s global hackathon) taking place April 22-24, 2016!
Over 190 cities are participating plus virtual participants joining from anywhere in an Internet connection. Here in Central Florida, both Orlando and Tampa have locations.
Orlando Space Apps Social Media
Space Apps Orlando location page
SpaceAppsORL Facebook
@SpaceAppsORL Twitter
Tampa Space Apps Social Media
Space Apps Tampa location page
Tampa Space Apps Facebook
@HackTampa Twitter