Ali Llewellyn

OpenGov Community Advocate @ Johnson Space Center

Ali is a teacher and adventurer at heart, committed to new ways to get explorers of all ages excited about space. She is intrigued by the unknown, and passionate about every way we can learn more and go further. Ali has almost 5 years of experience at NASA, developing better and more open business processes, telling stories about NASA’s exciting life sciences work, bridging the gap between generations in the workforce on use of technology, and co-leading an international education outreach pilot project encouraging students to “train like an astronaut.” She has a bachelor’s degree in classics from the University of Texas and studied cross-cultural communication and people movements in graduate school.

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Latest Posts by Llewellyn

NASA announces the 50 locations for the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge

| WASHINGTON — NASA and government agencies worldwide will host the second International Space Apps Challenge on April 20-21, with events across all seven continents and in space. Participants are encouraged to develop mobile apps, software and hardware, data visualization, and platform solutions that could contribute to space exploration missions and help improve life on Earth. [...]

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Where in the World is Space Apps?

| The International Space Apps Challenge team has been hard at work with the preparations for the upcoming global event in April. We’re building collaborations, reviewing challenges, and preparing for the largest exploration-focused mass collaboration that the world has ever seen. One of the most frequent questions we get for Space Apps is “where will it be [...]

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Asking YOU anything: What should NASA do next?

| On the social media platform Reddit, notable people often hold events called Ask Me Anything (AMA) where users are invited to ask anything they wish. They are the experts… and “redditors” have direct access to discuss, engage and learn from these celebrities, leaders and notable citizens. NASA astronaut and openNASA team member Ron Garan subverted [...]

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NASA Tournament Lab’s Big Data Challenge

| NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science announced on Wednesday the launch of the Big Data Challenge, a series of competitions hosted through the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL). The Big Data Challenge series will apply the process of open innovation to conceptualizing new and novel approaches to using “big [...]

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Innovation as Curiosity

| “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney

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