Space Apps MKE

JET Constellations serves as a community tech hub for individuals to build computer science skills, foster professional relationships for future business ventures in the tech industry, and provide various academic opportunities to deserving individuals. We also function as a central hub for start up resources.

Jet Constellations

Space Apps is your chance to experience, experiment, and explore solutions to our universe’s biggest challenges!

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Space Apps is an international hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, technologists, and others in cities around the world, where teams engage with NASA’s free and open data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. Space Apps 2018 included over 18,000 participants at more than 200 events in 75 countries. For the first time, we are bringing it here to Milwaukee!<h1>Register Here!</h1><h3>https://spaceappsmke.org/</h3><h3></h3><h3></h3><h2>Challenges: </h2>1UP for NASA EarthYour challenge is to create a new video game that uses NASA Earth data, providing players a novel way to interact and have fun with NASA Earth data. What you create can inform, educate, inspire, or simply provide an enjoyable experience for players – the Earth is your stage!Down these Green StreetsYou are a newly appointed Regional Green Engineer. Your challenge is to develop green infrastructure solutions for complex challenges in water management and risk reduction. Create a tool to assess the characteristics of an urban or rural area of your choice, and integrate green infrastructures, or nature-based solutions, into that region’s development plans to 1) reduce flood and/or drought risk, 2) establish sustainable land use practices, 3) support water management,Spot That Fire V2.0Your challenge is to create an application that leverages NASA's near-real-time and archival wildfire datasets along with other tools to support firefighting and fire mitigation efforts. This challenge builds on last year’s challenge of the same name by calling for innovative ideas and apps that focus on how to engage and enable citizens to assist with the entire firefighting and fire mitigation process.The Art Side of the MoonFifty years ago, generations were inspired when humans made a giant leap and walked on the moon. Today, NASA is committed to returning to the moon and beyond! Your challenge is to create an artistic work to communicate, inform, or inspire others about humanity’s return to the moon.Trash CleanupOceanic garbage patches are collections of marine debris that come together due to ocean currents; they have devastating effects on ocean ecosystems. Your challenge is to design a mission to help clean up garbage from the ocean!Rising WaterSea levels are rising around the world, and approximately 40% of the human population lives in coastal zones. Your challenge is to help communicate the impacts of rising oceans by creating a visualization tool that illustrates the changes caused by rising sea levels in your region.Up, Up, and Away!Your challenge is to generate a virtual reality environment or game related to the James Webb Space Telescope’s mission. Allow the user to follow Webb on its journey from launch to its final destination in orbit a million miles away from Earth!The Trans-Neptunian SpacewayLike the Trans-Siberian Railroad linked remote parts of Asia to the West, the Trans-Neptunian Spaceway (TNS) takes tourists and entrepreneurs to the newly accessible region of our solar system beyond Neptune. Your challenge is to develop marketing materials and/or tools for the Trans-Neptunian Spaceway!<h3>Hosts: </h3>Tarik :Tarik Moody is one of Milwaukee’s most distinctive on-air personalities, the evening music host and digital director for 88Nine Radio Milwaukee, where he also produces and hosts his weekly show, the Rhythm Lab. Tarik is also the founder of 88nine Labs: series of tech talks and hackathons in Milwaukee to connect our technology and creative scenes—and merge diverse voices and talents from both.Romke:Romke de Haan has been a business and technical strategist for the past 23 years. A native Milwaukeean, Romke has launched numerous business and has worked for organizations like Microsoft, Razorfish and the US government. Romke is currently a Principal at GuidePoint Security a cyber security firm helping some of the largest organizations in the world with security.Romke is on the board or advises many national and global organizations in address the skills gap or incarceration of young peopleNadiyah:Nadiyah is founder of Jet Constellations. Jet Constellations is a local software company that functions to promote STEM education in Milwaukee, accelerate tech-oriented startups, and build a nurturing ecosystem of diverse techies and entrepreneurs. As founder, Nadiyah aims to brand Milwaukee as“The Milky Way” – a tech hub representative of Milwaukee’s diverse population. Presenting Partner: Milky Way Tech Hub:

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