Huntsville, AL (at Alabama A&M)

Welcome to 2020 NASA International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon-Huntsville Local Event! Registration is open now... Prizes for winners include cash, cool tech devices for AI, ... from our generous sponsors! Participants also get many free offers from the global collaborators!

Now in its 9th year, NASA Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, entrepreneurs, and others in cities around the world, where teams engage with the NASA’s free and open data to creatively address real-world problems on Earth and in space. 2019 Space Apps included over 29,000 participants at 225 events in 71 countries. Space Apps is a NASA-led global initiative and the largest hackathon organized in collaboration with universities, schools, and industries.

2020 NASA International Space Apps Challenge will be coming to you on October 2-4, 2020 in a virtual setting. The theme for this year’s Space Apps event is “Taking Action”, a critical reminder that, even from the comfort and safety of home, we can make a difference.

The North America-Great Huntsville Regional event will be hosted at Huntsville, AL--the Nation's famous "Rocket City", home of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and numerous world-leading aerospace and high tech industries.

Alabama A&M University is proud to be the local host this year.

Watch this video about our new Cybersecurity Concentration in the Department of Electrical Engieering and Computer Science

AAMU Organizer Committee:

Chair: Dr. Ed Pearson

Honorary Chair: Dr. ZT Deng

Co-Chair: Dr. Raziq Yaqub, Prof. Terry Miller

Subcommittee chair: Dr. Mebougna Drabo, Dr. Teresa Orok, Dr. Aschalew Kassu, Dr. Xiang Zhao

Special Thanks to Our Event Sponsors:

Gold Sponsorship:

• Minority Science and Engineering Improvement Program(MSEIP) of US Department of Education that assists predominantly minority institutions in effecting long-range improvement in science and engineering education programs and increasing the flow of underrepresented ethnic minorities, particularly minority women, into science and engineering careers. (Sponsored by MSEIP award P120A150053, Senior Program Manager: Dr. Bernadette Hence)
  
  

• BioDynami, a biotechnology company that provides innovative solutions for life science research and development, which specializes in the field of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) library preparation. It offers high-quality, fast, simple, and affordable NGS reagents for biomedical scientists.
  
  

• U.S. Army Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, AL & Society of American Milltary Engineers (SAME). Founded in 1920, SAME builds leaders and leads collaboration among government and industry to develop multi-disciplined solutions to national security infrastructure challenges. With a National Office in Alexandria, Va., and more than 100 Posts and Field Chapters around the world, the Society unites public and private sector individuals and organizations from across the architecture, engineering, construction, environmental and facility management, cyber security, and contracting and acquisition disciplines.
  
  
• Nvidia, inventor of the GPU, which creates interactive graphics on laptops, workstations, mobile devices, notebooks, PCs, and more. It also helps customers and educators build solutions to AI, HPC and mobile applications.
  
  

• Tec-Masters, Inc. (TMI) is a Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) that is an SBA Certified HUBZone,  ISO 9001:2015 certified and CMMI Level 3 appraised company. TMI has 200+ employees with offices located in Huntsville, AL, Atlanta, GA and Lawton, OK. Since our inception in 1988, we have planned, managed, and executed activities in support of numerous Government organizations including NASA, the U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC), Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and the National Security Agency (NSA). We have also executed contracts for multiple commercial activities. Tec-Masters provides innovative technical solutions in multiple areas such as hardware design, development and integration to include verification of requirements compliance, modeling, simulation, testing and analysis, integration documentation support and safety compliance verification.

• Raytheon Missiles & Defense brings global customers the most advanced end-to-end solutions delivering the advantage of one innovative partner to detect, track, and intercept threats. With a broad portfolio of air and missile defense systems, precision weapons, radars, command and control systems and advanced defense technologies Raytheon Missiles & Defense solutions protect citizens, warfighters and infrastructure in more than fifty countries around the world.
  
  Silver Sponsorship:
  
  

• RISE BUILD ACHIEVE (RBA) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization focused on the advancement of youth in the community. Our vision is to educate and empower youth, equipping them to RISE above challenges, BUILD generational wealth and ACHIVE their aspirations. RBA’s mission is to unite Godly principals with practical application and positively affect the community. Visit www.myrba.org for information on our programs aimed at providing opportunities and support for youth. IG: @risebuildachieveFB: @RISE BUILD ACHIEVE

Information on NASA Global Collaborators and Offers are available at the Dashboard of the participant's account now.

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Registered participant please remember to check in--click here

Opening ceremony start Friday Oct. 2 at 5:30PM local time

*********************Closing/Award Ceremony******************

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Topic: NASA Space Apps Challenge Closing Ceremony

Time: Oct 9, 2020 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting

https://aamu.zoom.us/j/6915177727

Meeting ID: 691 517 7727

Welcome to join us !!