NASA Space Apps Challenge

[BriannaLind]

Website Link

Generalized Schedule:

March 2024 – Challenge idea solicitation goes live (you’ll get an email from me) and due end of March April 2024 – Selected ideas are notified May 2024 - fill out the entire challenge statement July 2024 - Videos will most likely be due in the July timeframe

[BriannaLind]

Hello 2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge SMEs!

We hope that you will join us again for the 2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge. This is an opportunity for you to once again engage the public with your research and missions through NASA’s open data. In 2023, The NASA Space Apps Challenge had more than 57-thousand registrants from 152 countries and territories.

You can submit your challenge idea through NASA Spark. In case you missed the NASA Spark webinar on how to submit a challenge idea, you can learn how to do so here:

Webinar recording PDF of the slides

Submissions are due by EOD March 29, 2024. For any questions, contact HaeMee Kang (haemee.kang@nasa.gov) or Cara Crosby (cara.n.crosby@nasa.gov).

Thank you for your time and we very much hope you are able to support us again in this year’s Space Apps Challenge.

Best,

Cara Crosby, MSIOP

Diversity and Inclusion Specialist

Global Organizing Team

NASA Space Apps Challenge

www.spaceappschallenge.org

[BriannaLind]

Responsibilities of Challenge Authors and Challenge Teams

To help ensure the event runs smoothly, we ask that all selected Challenge Authors and Challenge Team members commit to the following activities, which will all take place virtually:

NASA Spark Idea Submission: Challenge Authors submit their ideas via NASA Spark by Fri Mar 29. Selected ideas will be notified by April 8.

Challenge Team & Statement: Selected Challenge Authors will build a Challenge Team and expand their idea into a full challenge statement.

Hackathon Event Engagement: Each Challenge Author and Challenge Team member commits to spending 3-4 hours on hackathon weekend (October 5-6) to answer questions from Space Apps participants about their challenge.

Judging: Each Challenge Author and Challenge Team member commits to 3-4 hours in October/November to judge the projects submitted for their challenge.

Bootcamp Video: We highly recommend that each team record a 3-5 minute "Bootcamp Video" (July/August). This video is essentially an opportunity to describe your challenge, explain why it is compelling, and convince prospective participants that they should choose your challenge. Think of it as a sales pitch for your challenge. The bootcamp videos are always very popular with participants as they shop for a challenge.

Leveraging Earth Observation Data for Informed Agricultural Decision-Making Challenge:

Farmers face a deluge of challenges, from weather variability to pest outbreaks, disease threats, and even political tension. These factors significantly affect crop health, profitability, and food security. This Space Apps Challenge asks participants to develop a webapp designed to empower agricultural communities by enhancing their ability to combine data from their farms with NASA Earth observation data to solve problems, enhance prediction capacity, build community and trust, and improve decision making processes. The webapp will bridge the gap between NASA's vast Earth Observation data archives and the needs of farmers.

Design Requirements:

Consider these components while developing your app: The app should offer the following services:

Data Accessibility: A design that enables the user to search, explore, and download relevant EO real-time and historical data tailored to their specific location and agricultural/environmental needs. This interface should take into account a range of data and digital skills by offering an intuitive interface.

Data Integration: The app will integrate NASA EO data with farmer-collected field data uploaded as spreadsheets or shapefiles. These data will enable farmers to connect and evaluate NASA authoritative data with what they observe on the ground.

Data Report: Current and past values for agriculturally relevant environmental variables (retrieved from Earth Observation data) should be available for a given geographic location. This may include static variables like land cover and soil type information, or dynamic variables like soil moisture, seasonal averages, deviations from long-term trends. Be creative and try to think about what information would be helpful to you as a small-scale or large scale farmer!

Ask the Experts: Subject matter experts will provide advice based on practice-based data and will create a safe space for people to ask questions and learn about how to make better-informed decisions. In return, experts will listen and learn more from the population to continue to enhance data and needs of the farming community. Agriculture technology or “AgTech” plays a pivotal role in alleviating the building pressure on farmers to produce more by providing improved control and real-time data insights guided by subject matter experts of farming operations for more efficient management of crops, resources, and livestock.

Resources:

• AppEEARS
• Giovanni
• earthdata search