| 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. [...]
| 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 [...]
| Because as we learned from the International Space Challenge & RHoK; your code, your hacks and your solutions have the potential to facilitate a community of users & contributors that endure well beyond one codeathon.
| “If you put that data out to a diverse community, it enables [NASA] to have numerous and distributed backup teams around the world digging into the data, figuring out what sort of valuable information can come from it and what can be done with it."
| One of the key elements of the Random Hacks of Kindness Sustainability Project announced earlier this year was to create a featured problem set for each RHoK event going forward that provides a series of highly curated, well-defined problems that have clear sponsors and clear paths to sustained impact. Stay on top of the latest [...]
| We are very excited to announce the Global winners of the International Space Apps Challenget. It was truly a global collaboration with thousands of people and organizations around the world participating and all the solutions submitted were incredible. This event celebrated technology development in its most positive context—using minimal resources and maximum brainpower to create [...]
| It's time to "…find groups of people, bring them together around an issue or problem that needs to be fixed, then step out of the way and let the collective energy of the people in the room come together and really take that data and solve things in creative and imaginative ways that we would never have done ourselves."