The first NASA Space Apps Challenge was held in Mendoza by "The Mars Society Argentina" together with Gabriel Cavallero and Tomás Suárez on October 19, 20 and 21.
This event is a hackathon of ideas to develop solutions to problems using data from the universe, the global environment, data obtained from satellites and other data sets that have been opened to the public, within the open data philosophy.
Ten teams had the opportunity to work for a whole weekend in order to present their project to the audience and the jury, who were responsible for selecting the two best projects.
Juan Manuel Galdames, Jean Pierre, Ignacio Sánchez, Ignacio Pérez Burgos and Rodrigo Cabrera were first prize winners. The project is a drone which aim is to locate satellites, examine them and fix the damage created by micrometeorites and orbital debris.
Here you can meet the winning team thanks to the interview of @universidad.com.ar
Mat r was not only present supporting the event, but we also granted a $US 2000 voucher prize for the winning team.
The team decided to use their money to work on a video in order to participate in Nasa’s international contest. For that reason they visited our offices in Argentina and they developed the video together with our team. This is the result.