NASA Space Apps Challenge opens the registrations for the tenth edition of the hackathon that will take place on October 2-3, online, simultaneously, in four cities in Romania, as well as in hundreds of other places around the world. The theme of this year’s event is “The Power of Ten”, celebrating the ten NASA Space Apps editions held so far, dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and community.
NASA Space Apps Challenge brings together 10 space agencies
To mark the tenth edition of the largest global hackathon in the world and to involve an even larger number of communities, this year NASA Space Apps Challenge brings together ten space agency partners: ESA (European Space Agency), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, The Canadian Space Agency, the Australian Space Agency, the Brazilian Space Agency, the Argentine National Space Activities Commission, the Paraguayan Space Agency, the South African National Space Agency, and the Bahrain National Space Agency will be joining NASA.
The theme of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2021 is “The Power of Ten”
The theme of this year’s event is “The Power of Ten.” This year, Space Apps will add four new thematic categories, which brings up to ten the number of global awards. The award categories will be announced in the coming weeks.
Scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, technology enthusiasts, storytellers, manufacturers, builders, etc. worldwide are invited to participate in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. For 48 hours, they will access NASA’s open data and work together to find ingenious solutions to real-world, Earth and space problems that NASA is proposing to be solved in this edition of the hackathon. The projects submitted will be evaluated by the space agency experts and the winners of the ten global awards will be selected.
In Romania, the hackathon will take place online in the cities of Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Timisoara and Iasi.
