🚀Welcome to NASA Space Apps Challenge Ventspils 2023!🚀

Space Apps Challenge – it is 48 hours hackathon that unites space enthusiasts around the globe to solve challenges of Earth and space using free and open NASA data.

This year, the event will be held in-person and virtual, and will nevertheless give participants the opportunity to connect with people from different backgrounds and talents to solve one of the challenges provided by NASA.

🌍What is the purpose of Space Apps?🌍

Space Apps, which started in 2012, has now become the largest global hackathon. While NASA provides awards to the top projects (see more below), Space Apps is all about collaboration! Our mission is focused on the following objectives:

- To inspire collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking

- To foster interest in Earth and Space science and exploration

- To raise awareness of NASA data around the world

- To encourage growth and diversity of the next generation of scientists, technologists, designers, engineers, artists, etc.

👋You are welcome to join if:👋

You are curious and bright mind: students, graphic designers, developers, UX/UI designers, data analysts, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists, innovators, technology experts, communicators, marketers, activists of humanitarian causes and all space enthusiasts.

And/or you love data and you want to transform NASA’s open data sets into real-world applications

And/or you are passionate about space and you want to join in building our future together for the benefit of humanity.

And/or you love hardware. Yes! Hardware projects welcome - Space Apps is more than “apps”! Grab your favourite board and dream up a solution for Earth or your own mission in space.

🇱🇻 Why Ventspils? 🇱🇻

Ventspils - The TOP 3 micro European city of the future (2020/2021) by FDI Intelligence which mission is: "Empower ICT founders & companies for rapid & sustainable growth in mindful & inspiring environment."
Ventspils Municipality within UIA project "NextGen Microcities" together with main Ventspils IT ecosystem's stakeholders/drivers has developed a completely new IT Foreign Direct Investment strategy for the city with the title: "Tech Wonderland by The Sea". The city has set the top priority IT sub-categories to focus on and develop for the next years.
The new FDI strategy includes SpaceTech as one of the top priorities for the city and NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020 is the message to the World and the very beginning of the new strategy's launch.
Ventspils has a long history in being part of the Space research and solution development with Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre's infrastructure and it's researchers as the core and now is ready to take it to the next level by building a strong community around it.
We are looking forward to gathering like-minded people together and work with the Global partner NASA to solve huge and maybe smaller problems which will lead us to a (even a little bit) better world and help us explore the mystique of the space.

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