ABOUT

The International Space Apps Challenge is a two-day HACKATHON where teams of technologists, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students across the globe collaborate and engage with publicly available data to design innovative solutions for global challenges.
The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant OPEN-SOURCE solutions to advance space exploration missions and improve life on Earth.

HACKATHON ?

Hackathons are technology development Marathons that draw on the talents and initiative of bright minded volunteers – developers, engineers, technologists, designers, and anyone with a passion and desire to have an immediate impact on the world.
They are open to anyone who has a passion for making a difference and are focused on developing real solutions to global challenges.
This hackathon is part of a larger process of deﬁning challenges relevant to earth and space, intensively working to prototype solutions over the course of the April 11-12, 2015 weekend, and subsequently reﬁning and implementing the most promising prototypes.
NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of additional government collaborators and local partner organizations.
This year it will run in more than 125 locations throughout the globe, Tunisia will take part of it for th first time.

REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION

SOLUTIONS

Participants will collaborate to build software, hardware, data visualization, and any other solutions. All solutions must be submitted under an open source license that permits the free and open dissemination of the work. NASA and the other supporting organizations DO NOT own the rights to nor are committed to utilize any solution developed during the event.
See the Legal Statement for more details

REGISTER

Each participant is required to register on Tunisia's Page on the International website in order to be eligible to participate and hack on a project over the course of the weekend.

PARTICIPATE

Everyone can participate. Programmers, Developers, Engineers, Technologists, Designers, and anyone with a passion and desire to have an immediate impact on the World. You can choose any challenge that captures your imagination and uses your skills. Teams will be created from participants interested in working on particular projects.

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Organizers

Rima zammali

Local Lead&Coordinator

mohamed sadok krichen

Logistic leader

Souha hmissi

Marketing leader

Sabri haddaji

Operations leader

Med Arbi zoghlami

Press & media

mohamed ali sola

Logistic

chiheb chebbi

local co-leader

Mootez Jeribi

local co-leader

Med Wael Sghaier

innovation leader

Imen Abousaoud

Marketing leader

Timeline

2 March - April

11 March

Select challenge and Start brainstorming

11-12 April

Participate at the
DELTA Consulting Center

12 April

Local judging, winners and 2 teams nomination for global judging

FAQs

IS THERE A FEE TO PARTICIPATE?	No. This event is 100% FREE and open to the public.
HOW DO I FIND A TEAM?	When you arrive at your event, there will be a number of focus challenges, and teams will be created from participants interested in working on particular projects.
HOW WILL PROJECTS BE JUDGED?	Projects will be judged at Local level first and then 2 teams will be nominated for global judging the global level is done by a NASA panel winners will be in 5 categories: Best Use of Hardware, Best Use of Data, Most Inspiring, Galactic Impact, Best Mission Concept. A 6th award will be publicly determined in the People's Choice category.
HOW WILL I SUBMIT A SOLUTION?	Registered participants will be able to submit their projects online for judging at www.spaceappschallenge.org during the event weekend from 11-12 April 2015.
CAN I TAKE A NAP AT NIGHT?	just prepare your sleeping bag!.
I DON'T CODE, CAN I STILL PARTICIPATE?	Yes. There will be numerous challenges geared towards people with no programming experience.
CAN I START NOW?	We want to encourage your enthusiasm, so you are welcome to form teams before the event and to start figuring out how you will tackle the challenges. Of course, there is no need to do anything in advance, it's entirely up to you. The two day event gives your team a chance to work together in person and we hope you will do most of the work over the weekend so that you can work collaboratively with others. The idea is not for you to just build the best app ever. It's to create a team who will do something better than any of us can do on our own.
HOW DO I CHOOSE A CHALLENGE?	You can choose any challenge that captures your imagination and uses your skills. you can work on any of the offered projects (or create-your-own if you need to).