Attention future astronauts, the International Space Apps Challenge will take place April 20-21, with events on earth and in space, if want you to develop apps with NASA. The Space Apps Challenge is sponsored by NASA and government agencies. Registration opens on March 1. The International Space Apps Challenge is a “codeathon-style” event.
Contest entrants will develop mobile applications, software, hardware, data visualization and platform solutions that could contribute to space exploration missions and help improve life on Earth.
Currently, there are sample apps on the website to lift off ideas, " Our goal is to provide a platform for people interested in space exploration to get together to work on amazing projects together. "
Representatives of NASA and other international space agencies along with scientists and participants to use open data to create solutions for 50 software, hardware and visualization challenges, including robotics, citizen science platforms and applications of remote sensing data.
Challenges selected to be worked on during the event will be published online prior to the event.
Twelve locations in the United States will host an International Space Apps Challenge event:
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Austin, Texas.
- Cape Canaveral, Fla
- Cleveland, Ohio.
- Detroit.
- Easton, Md..
- New York.
- Philadelphia.
- Reno, Nev..
- Rochester, N.Y.
- San Francisco.
- Syracuse, N.Y.
- Thirty-eight other events will be held in 30 other countries