The world’s largest space & Earth hackathon, The NASA International Space Apps Challenge, is back!

During the hackathon, teams engage NASA’s and its Space Agency Partners’ free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. 

We’re looking for:

• Participants of all backgrounds – problem-solvers, innovators, coders, designers, entrepreneurs, and curious minds
• Collaboration partners: keynote speakers, workshop hosts, mentors, experts, jury members, and support staff

The event will be hosted in-person. We will be providing coaching for team building/idea building, data research and application development by our on site experts, so this is a great event for learning new things too.

👉 If you are interested in making the event happen, please contact the local lead Jari Ratilainen (jari.ratilainen@vamk.fi) for more details.

The Space Apps Vaasa event is organized within the AuroraSpace EU Interreg Aurora project together with West Coast Startup.

Space Apps for Earth Impact: Building Arctic Solutions from Orbit

This interdisciplinary invites participants from diverse backgrounds—such as engineering, physics, business, law, environment, analytics, law, and IT—to design innovative tools that contribute to a more sustainable space ecosystem—and a more resilient Arctic society.

The mission

Design and prototype an innovative software application or digital tool that:

• Uses data from satellites (e.g. images, weather, positioning, communications)
• Has a clear, practical impact on Arctic society or industry
• Includes a basic business plan or idea for how the product could be used or sold
• Shows how Andøya Space could benefit from or help deliver your solution

Teams will compete for a cash prize and a chance to land a summer internship at KSAT, a global leader in satellite services and space sustainability. Travel and accommodation costs up to 5000 NOK / 4730 SEK / 433 EUR will be covered for student participants.

Read more and sign up here (sign up form will be published soon).