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Host a Local Event in your city!

Join our global community by hosting a Local Event for the NASA Space Apps Challenge on October 4-5, 2025

APPLY TO BE A LOCAL LEAD

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ADDRESS REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES ON EARTH & IN SPACE

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is a hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world!

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Meet like-minded individuals

When you participate in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge, you join a global community that embraces collaboration across borders, sectors, and cultures. The NASA Space Apps community shares a desire to learn and an interest in exploring our planet and universe through the creative use of science and technology. All ages, skill levels, and professional backgrounds are welcome. At NASA Space Apps, there's always space for one more!

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Use open data to address a variety of challenges

NASA Space Apps provides a platform for problem solvers worldwide to use free and open data from NASA and its Space Agency Partners. NASA Space Apps Challenge teams use these resources to address challenges written by NASA experts, featuring topics ranging from storytelling to software development, astrophysics, space exploration, and more.

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Challenge Yourself

This is your opportunity to stretch your skills! Connect with fellow participants, teammates, and Subject Matter Experts to learn new programs, gain knowledge, and explore innovative approaches to new and existing problems.

2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Winners

Each year thousands of teams submit projects that demonstrate creativity, collaboration, and address challenges we face on Earth and in space. These projects go through multiple rounds of judging to determine the NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Winners, which represent the most innovative projects submitted by participants.

Award - Best Use of ScienceBest Use of Science

WMPGang

WMPGang

Waterloo, Canada
Create an Orrery Web App that Displays Near-Earth Objects

Award - Best Use of DataBest Use of Data

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GaamaRamma

Universal Event
Leveraging Earth Observation Data for Informed Agricultural Decision-Making

Award - Art & TechnologyArt & Technology

connected earth museum

Connected Earth Museum

Campinas, Brazil
Imagine our Connected Earth

Award - Best Use of TechnologyBest Use of Technology

42 quakeheroes

42 QuakeHeroes

Maceió, Brazil
Seismic Detection Across the Solar System

Award - Galactic ImpactGalactic Impact

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NVS-knot

Kyiv, Ukraine
Leveraging Earth Observation Data for Informed Agricultural Decision-Making

Award - Best Mission ConceptBest Mission Concept

asturexplorers

AsturExplorers

Gijón, Spain
Landsat Reflectance Data: On the Fly and at Your Fingertips

Award - Most InspirationalMost Inspirational

innovisionaries

Innovisionaries

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
SDGs in the Classroom

Award - Best Use of StorytellingBest Storytelling

terratales

TerraTales

Cairo, Egypt
Tell Us a Climate Story!

Award - Global ConnectionGlobal Connection

Asteroid Destroyer

Asteroid Destroyer

Saskatoon, Canada
Navigator for the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Mapping the Characterizable Exoplanets in our Galaxy

Award - Local ImpactLocal Impact

Team I.O.

Team I.O.

Florianópolis, Brazil
Community Mapping
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SPACE APPS BY THE NUMBERS

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