Las Vegas, NV

NASA Space Apps Challenge

NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 is a global virtual hackathon for programmers, scientists, engineers, storytellers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts around the world to use NASA's open data to solve NASA-designed Challenges.

Benefits of participation

• Growing your skills.
• Building up your resume.
• Getting recruited.
• Collaborating and innovating.

Registration is free and open to anyone

Registration is free and open to anyone no matter of age or skill levels. You will be supported by local experts in Data Science and AI, and also by veterans of NASA's International Space Apps Challenge.

Thank You to our Space Apps Vegas 2020 Collaborators!

We are very grateful for the support of our volunteers, speakers and partners who are committed to helping our participants during this event and building a learning community in the Vegas area.

Dr. Chris L. Heavey, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Cheryl Wagner, Clark County School District

Dr. Gene Smith, Emeritus Professor of Geology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Dr. Jason Steffen, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Kevin Frans, Undergraduate at MIT

Aaron Sun, Undergraduate at Harvard University

Dr. Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Team Prometheus: Gabriel Garfinkel, Solomon Chang, Eric Lian, Alexander Hsia, Sky Chen, Global Winner of Space Apps Covid-19 Challenge

Artash Nath, Arushi Nath, Vikas Nath, Global Winner of Space Apps Covid-19 Challenge

Christopher Defelice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Greg Sklar, thank you so much for helping our teams!

Orestis Herodotou, thank you so much for supporting our teams!

Our Local Judges

Dr. Gabriele Morra, Department of Physics, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Dr. Qiusheng Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Dr. Mary Grace Bato, NASA-Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Dr. Steven Lee, Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA

Dr. Carina Lee, Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA

Dr. Candace Bedford, Lunar and Planetary Institute, USRA

Artash Nath, Global Winner of Space Apps Covid-19 Challenge

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