West Sacramento, CA

Welcome to the Inaugural Greater Sacramento Space Apps Challenge!

This year the Space Apps Challenge is coming to you virtually from West Sacramento, CA, from October 1-3, 2021. 

We invite you and your teams to be a part of the 10th year of this event, as our local talent join makers & hackers from all over the world!

What to expect

Participants will use NASA's data to create solutions to the challenges specified for this hackathon. Challenges will open near the date of the event, and participants will join teams, or bring their own teams to work towards the solutions. Challenges will be chosen on the day of the event by the teams. We will have one whole day of coding, and one day for a presentation pitching contest, where a jury will decide who will qualify for the global competition.

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!

Agenda:

October 1, Friday

09:00 AM - 05:00 PM - Challenge Channels will open

06:30 PM - 07:00 PM - Local Lead Keynote via Zoom

07:00 PM - 8:30 PM - Networking with local participants

October 2, Saturday

09:00 AM - until - Teams work on solutions

October 3, Sunday

until - 10 PM - Teams finalize their projects and presentations

11:59 PM - Submission deadline for judging inc. a 30-second video OR a min. of 7 Slides in a presentation deck.

October 8, Friday

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM - Awards and Announcing the local winners at SpaceApps "Demo Day"

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