NASA Guest Speaker 2019
NASA Space Apps 2019
NASA Guest Speaker 2019
NASA Space Apps 2019
Space Apps 2019 in Numbers
Our Special Guest Speaker 2019
Benjamin Morrell
Robotics Technologist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Developing robotic systems for air, space, and ground with a focus on state estimation, localisation, mapping, and trajectory optimisation. Leading the perception subteam in the Darpa Subterranean Challenge, with a focus on accurate, large-scale global localisation in underground environments.
2019 Awards
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2019 Awards
AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Space Apps Challenge 2019 Broke Records!
2019 featured over 29,000 participants at ~230 locations in ~80 countries! Space Apps offers local and global awards. Solutions with intriguing and innovative insights and compelling storytelling rise to the top in the judging process. Global award winners receive an invitation to NASA to attend a rocket launch, as well as bragging rights among their peers and community. NASA executives will select the Global Award winners.
Congratulations to our star solvers from Sydney on their out-of-this-world work on 2019!
Global Finalist
Sydney First Winners
PLANET CAPTAIN
FROM CURIOUS MINDS COME HELPING HANDS
A live monitoring web based application which allows humanitarian workers on the ground to make data driven decisions and help at risk communities as best they can.
Global Finalist
Sydney Second Winners
AURA
SURFACE-TO-AIR (QUALITY) MISSION
A simple to understand air quality real-time and forecasting visualisation, with an intuitive cigarette dose scale.
Sydney Third Winners
Sydney Third Winners
AD CAELUM
SET YOUR SIGHTS HIGH!
Catch NASA satellites, learn about them and show them to your friends! Satellite Scouter is a game that encourages young minds to learn more about NASA satellites and the information they collect.
Workshops 2019
2019 WORKSHOPS
Join us on Information Day
There will be educational workshops for you!
Workshops 2019
2019 WORKSHOPS
Join us on Information Day
There will be educational workshops for you!
The followings are the workshops provided by our sponsors to help you up-skill and build more professional solutions. Please refer to our Agenda to find out about the times of the workshops.
Open Innovation and Ideation: How to build a winning solution
The session will be an interactive workshop, teaching participants to use techniques to narrow down the aspects of the challenge they want to work on, and come up with the effective, creative and innovative solution.
Creating Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa Skills: From Idea to Testing
This session will walk you through how to build an Alexa skill, how to implement an intent, deploy to AWS Lambda, and how to register and test a skill. You’ll walk out of the session with knowledge of how to bring your idea to life with voice and Alexa skills.
Learning outcomes:
· Understand Alexa Skills building fundamentals
· Dive into Voice Design and Voice User-Interface
· How to build engaging voice experiences
Amazon Alexa will also be providing Echo’s as a prize for the winning team in the “Best use of Voice category”
Attendees can create a free Alexa developer account with the instructions below in preparation for the hackathon with the instructions below:
· Create an www.amazon.com.au account.
· Sign in to the Alexa developer account using the same email for your amazon.com.au account by going to this website:https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/anz.
· Sign up for an AWS account (www.aws.amazon.com) if you don’t already have one. Complete the verification steps for enabling an Amazon verified account, including payment details, profile info, and phone verification as applicable.
The power of Location Data:
Shona Chisholm from HERE Technologies will give a brief introduction to the importance of location data in the modern world, and how you can utilise their developer tools for your Space Apps challenge project. You’ll learn how to easily visualize data on a map – and publish to websites with a few simple steps.
Work with Virtual Reality:
VR is a strongly emerging medium for entertainment and education. In this workshop, you will be shown everything you need to get started for creating VR experiences on (Android) mobile devices. We will be covering the "Google VR" and "Oculus VR" platforms for Android phones and the newly released Oculus Quest. You will be introduced to all the software and hardware needed, with the view of developing those skills over the week before the actual hackathon. Good luck all!
Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You!
Thank You!
2019 Sponsors
We won’t be able to run an event of this caliber without the help of some incredible sponsors. Helping us with everything from logistics and planning, to making connections, and sponsoring in kind to allow us to take the event to the next level, we're excited to be working alongside them.
Thinking about joining the sponsors for 2019? Get in touch with us.