NSS Sacramento Chapter is Participating April 11-12, 2015

Mark your calendar for this free and engaging weekend of fun for all ages! For the first time the NASA Space Apps Challenge comes to Sacramento with dozens of challenges on the themes of Earth, Outer Space, Humans and Robotics. Tell your friends and colleagues – we want all techies, artists, scientists, designers, makers, space nerds – come with your ideas, create or join a team and make the future happen!

WHEN: On April 10-12 people in over 100 cities around the globe are participating in the largest Space Apps Challenge in history to design innovative solutions to global challenges.

WHERE: Entrepreneurs Campus, 909 Mormon Street, Folsom, CA 95630

More information on the NASA Space Apps Challenge:

The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. This year has over 25 challenges in four areas: Earth, Outer Space, Humans and Robotics. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of government collaborators and over 100 local organizing teams across the globe.

• 2014 had 8,000 participants in 46 countries in 95 cities and had 671 projects on the most popular “Challenges” – Growing Food for a Martian Table, Astronaut Wearables, Robot of ExoMars Rover for Education, Game or App Creation of Satellite Images.
• Opportunity to create relationships with regional makers, designers, technologists, videographers, academics, students, scientists, investors and entrepreneurs
• Join a creative team and solve world problems using publicly available NASA data to create open source solutions.
• Prizes and awards to be announced…top winners get judged by NASA.

BONUS: NASA is placing a special emphasis on women in data this year. Participate in the first NASA Bootcamp streamed live from NYC to improve skills with code, data and project advocacy on Friday, April 10th.  Join the Sacramento Chapter for this live event at the Entrepreneurs Campus location given above.

You must register for the NASA Space Apps Challenge to attend any of the events around the world (it’s free). For more information about the Sacramento events, contact [email protected] or (408) 691-4784.