Space Apps 2018 in Numbers

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Space Apps 2018 included over 18,000 participants at more than 200 events in 75 countries. Space Apps offers local and global awards. Solutions with intriguing and innovative insights and compelling storytelling rise to the top in the judging process. Global award winners receive an invitation to NASA to attend a rocket launch, as well as bragging rights among their peers and community. NASA executives will select the Global Award winners. 

Congratulations to our star solvers from Sydney on their out-of-this-world work on 2018!

THAT-VR-TEAM

An educational, problem solving, and collaborative VR game for kids using NASA and planetary data simulating realistic space environment to learn, play, grow and connect with space lovers.

ROCKET PAL

RocketPal was developed to provide space enthusiasts with the ability to track international space missions - past, present and future. ...
 

BEACON

Beacon is a web and sms integrated service that collates real-time bush fire data through crowd-sourcing and satellite imagery, cutting down traditional fire detection methods of hours to just minutes so people can make the right escape protection decision ...

The followings are the workshops provided by our sponsors to help you up-skill and build more professional solutions. Please refer to our Agenda to find out about the times of the workshops.

Open Innovation and Ideation: How to build a winning solution

The session will be an interactive workshop, teaching participants to use techniques to narrow down the aspects of the challenge they want to work on, and come up with the effective, creative and innovative solution. Other than a whole lot of fun and games the agenda includes:

• Impact Mapping

• Event Storming

• Pairing and Mobbing

• Value Slicing

Creating Voice Experiences with Amazon Alexa Skills: From Idea to Testing

This session will walk you through how to build an Alexa skill, how to implement an intent, deploy to AWS Lambda, and how to register and test a skill. You’ll walk out of the session with knowledge of how to bring your idea to life with voice and Alexa skills.

Learning outcomes:
· Understand Alexa Skills building fundamentals
· Dive into Voice Design and Voice User-Interface
· How to build engaging voice experiences

Amazon Alexa will also be providing Echo’s as a prize for the winning team in the “Best use of Voice category”

Attendees can create a free Alexa developer account with the instructions below in preparation for the hackathon with the instructions below:
· Create an www.amazon.com.au account.
· Sign in to the Alexa developer account using the same email for your amazon.com.au account by going to this website:https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/anz.
· Sign up for an AWS account (www.aws.amazon.com) if you don’t already have one. Complete the verification steps for enabling an Amazon verified account, including payment details, profile info, and phone verification as applicable.