Register now for the Bristol event over the weekend 5/6 October 2024!
https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/nasa-space-apps-2024/2024-local-events/bristol
NASA Space Apps is an innovation and public engagement program under NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. NASA Space Apps aims to promote transparency, participation, and global collaboration as part of the Open Government Initiative by sharing openly available data supplied through NASA and its Space Agency Partners to the public.
We have been taking part in the Space Apps since 2019 and have been the local lead for Bristol since 2020. NASA Space Apps is a great way for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world to come together and use open data from NASA and its Space Agency Partners to create solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space.
This is not a ‘youth’ event, but we have always involved young people, especially from our clubs, in the challenge weekend. We encourage young people to join teams from industry and universities as equal partners. The young people bring a freshness of ideas and thinking that can really elevate a team’s solution. They can also bring some serious coding chops!
This year we are the proud Mission Partner of Ghyston, a leading software consultancy in Bristol. They have kindly offered to host the event at their new offices and are also supporting the event planning and organisation. They staff are already volunteering in support of clubs and this is a great opportunity for them to deliver an amazing experience for more young people, and the tech community around Bristol in general.
The 20 challenge summaries released today have something for everyone. There a challenges to tell the story of distant exoplanets, to produce an Orrery web app of near-Earth objects, or to do highly sophisticated data analytics on seismic readings for the Mars lander!
Most of the challenges can be undertaken with minimal coding. When the judges are considering submissions they are principally looking for Impact, Creativity, Validity, Relevance, Presentation. Only the Validity criteria relates to scientific / coding efficacy. The challenges are more about public understanding and use of science, than breaking new ground in computer science / software engineer (though that does also happen).
Please do consider registering for the event and taking part. It’s always a great weekend, and you might even solve one of the great challenges facing humanity along the way!
