The Event
Cleveland will be returning to the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for its 10th anniversary in 2021 after having a short break of a year. It's also NASA Glenn Research Center80th year anniversary as well, and even bigger opt to participate! This time we have a new energetic local lead, Martina Dimoska. The core team is preparing to bring a lot of novelty and excitement this year!
This year, the Space Apps Challenge will again be an online event, due to the remaining concerns about the pandemic, which hopefully will be history soon.
Sign up for the event and show your skillset in Cleveland technology: Robotics, software, education, medicine, and many other areas! Contribute to applications and other projects that solve problems or put forth new ideas, and can optionally make use of NASA's great open data. We love creating diverse teams and learning from each other. Our community is safe and welcoming to anyone who wants to participate!
The world needs YOUR ideas! All space enthusiasts are welcome, including but not limited to software engineers, designers, UI/UX analysts, writers, and artists!
For software projects, prototypes with some functionality are great, but we will be focusing on the ideas and the feasibility of completion, so "some code" will be sufficient in many cases!
We will be cross-promoting with the Pittsburgh virtual event to see what can come of the Great Lakes / Rust Belt collaboration.
Cleveland will have a local event winner, and select projects will be nominated for global judging.
Specific challenges will be announced, but there will also be a freestyle category for those who wish to undertake space-related projects of any type. These projects will not be eligible for global judging, but we will promote them widely. We are especially interested in freestyle projects related to art, advanced visualization, and open-source 3D engines.
Information about our Slack workspace and other event software will be emailed to all registrants soon. Feel free to contact us at spaceappscle@gmail.com as well.
Schedule (subject to change)
Day 1
9:00am - Welcome, opening comments, logistics
9:30am - Final team formation
10:00am - Development begins
12:00pm - Lunch break
1:00pm - Development continues
4:00pm - Optional progress check, development continues
5:00pm - Dinner break
6:00pm - Development continues
Day 2
10:00am - Event updates, logistics updates
10:15am - Development continues
12:00pm - SUBMISSION DEADLINE
12:00pm - Lunch break
1:30pm - Presentations
3:00pm - End of presentations
4:00pm - Awards
5:00pm - Post event social
Local Awards
1st Place Award - Galactic Impact (Team Compilation Error)
2nd Place Award - Most Creative (Team ISU Icons)
3rd Best Data Visualization or Infographic (Team Tepper Pepper)
4th Best Use of an Open Source 3D Engine (Team Devilish)
5th People's Choice (Team Constellation Animations)
The best two local projects will be nominated for global judging, and global winners will be announced in January 2022. Projects not related to the official challenges are welcome, but they are not eligible for global awards. This year Cleveland had an amazing outreach, and thus, we can nominate the 1st and 2nd Place Awards for Global Judging. We thank you all for the engagement and participation!
NASA Space Apps Cleveland Core Team:
Martina Dimoska (Local Lead),
Renata Naumovska (Financial Advisor),
Bobi Sofronijoski (Data Architect),
Andrej Janevski (Multimedia Specalist),
David Mukka Dimovski (Creative Guide),
Ana Atanasovska (Mentors Lead).
Partners
- NASA Glenn Research Center
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/home/index.html
Rigel, the 1st and Orion’s brightest star, forms the hunter's left knee, which is awarded to NASA Glenn Research Center for being stellar support!
Orion, as a constellation, is clearly visible in the night sky from November to February. It is in the southwestern sky if you are in the Northern Hemisphere or the northwestern sky if you are in the Southern Hemisphere. It is best seen between latitudes 85 and minus 75 degrees. Its right ascension is 5 hours, and its declination is 5 degrees.
2. Symphony
https://symphony.is/
Symphony is building the workforce of the future and enabling the best global talent to come together to deliver work that matters.
They are pioneering the partnership model that delivers the most ambitious and impactful end-to-end digital projects for the world’s most influential companies.
They’re working with 4 out of Fortune’s 10 most admired brands of 2020 as well as some of the most ambitious and creative founders in the world. They have collaborated with clients who were educated at MIT, Stanford, and Harvard & trained at Facebook and Amazon.
Symphony is a trusted partner and preferred vendor of Google Ventures, StartX, and Y Combinator. This year, in the spirit of 10, Symphony is a part of the Stars of Orion, a recognizable theme channeling 'The Power of 10'. Cleveland honored that by making its own theme - The 10 brightest stars of the Orion constellation.
Orion, as a constellation, is clearly visible in the night sky from November to February. It is in the southwestern sky if you are in the Northern Hemisphere or the northwestern sky if you are in the Southern Hemisphere. It is best seen between latitudes 85 and minus 75 degrees. Its right ascension is 5 hours, and its declination is 5 degrees.
Symphony ignites their light on this challenge, and they shine bright in our Space as our 10th renowned star - The Orion Nebula.
The 10th star is The Orion Nebula — a formation of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases rather than a star — in the middle "star" in Orion’s sword, which hangs off of Orion's Belt.
