Slide 1

Space Apps Challenge 2015 NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, Ohio

Slide 2

Space Apps Challenges Embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space The idea of a Challenge is so compelling because it acknowledges the fact that the world is facing serious challenges - and that we all have to work together to approach them

Slide 3

Agenda Friday Get acquainted Overview: Brad Nellis, OHTec Welcome: Sean Gallagher, CIO NASA Glenn Research Center Guest Speaker: Matt Melis, Aerospace Engineer Use and Application of Scientific Imaging Technology in Support of NASAs Aeronautics and Space Programs Orientation Exhibits and demos Start to form teams and select projects

Slide 4

Agenda Saturday Morning 8:00 AM - Orientation Team forming Project selection Pick a work area Create online project on Space Apps Site Work on projects

Slide 5

Agenda Saturday Noon: Lunch Guest Speaker: Jeff Chin, Research Engineer An Open-Source Model of the Hyperloop Transportation System 5:30: Dinner Tour of Graphics and Visualization Lab 8:00: Yuris Night Party Midnight: Close for the day

Slide 6

Agenda Sunday 8:00 AM: Open Work on projects 3:00 PM: Presentations and Judging 4:30 PM: Awards Judges pick two teams for global judging People's choice award 5:00 PM: Wrap up

Slide 7

Space Apps Challenge Stats Cleveland has the fourth highest number of participants in the US behind only New York, Boston and Los Angeles # of locations worldwide: 138 Total # of participants worldwide: 8279 # of countries: 62 # of Challenges: 25

Slide 8

Building and Logistics External doors are locked Only four NASA people with access to building on the weekend are allowed to let you in: Herb Schilling Gary Nolan Brian Sommers Calvin Robinson Keep us informed about comings and goings First floor only unless escorted Rest rooms Exhibits Food and kitchen

Slide 9

Security - Badging Wear badge at all times Keep badges for the duration of the 3-day event Badges will be collected by the organizers at the conclusion of the event If you lose or forget your badge, contact the organizers Organizers will have Visitor Control issue duplicate badge

Slide 10

Contact Information Organizers: Herb Schilling cell: 216 210 2925 Brad Nellis cell: 216 456 5878 NASA Main Gate 216 433 2205

Slide 11

General Rules Participating sponsors and media will be allowed to capture your sound and image via any recording medium (audio, video, photo, any form of artwork) at the event for use in promotion and marketing with regard to their participation and your participation at the Space Apps Cleveland event All projects produced at the Space Apps NYC site are to be released into the public domain, per the charge of the International Space Apps Challenge. There are no so-called "intellectual property" considerations at this event to be concerned with, because all work is to be made free and open to everyone in the world Refrain from engaging in business related activity during the event Please contact us immediately whenever you need assistance

Slide 12

Projects Not just apps! If you have questions regarding specific challenges, you can email them to the NASA challenge owners Must create a project page on Space Apps site Got an idea for @SpaceApps project? Need help brainstorming? Get help via @NASA Data Scientist @JeanneHolm To be eligible for global judging project page must include a link to the code in a public repository https://spaceapps2015.hackpad.com/Local-Challenges- 2015-GznZjfFywcM

Slide 13

Teaming You can work alone No limit on number of team members Try to meet the others at the event Most teams will benefit from having non-programmers working with them Can form teams across locations Can work with virtual participants Look on https://spaceapps2015.hackpad.com/ for people looking for teams or to put your name out therehttps://spaceapps2015.hackpad.com/ Participants may be part of more than one team and challenge

Slide 14

Judging Two projects will advance to global judging Criteria Impact Creativity Complexity Collaboration Product Sustainability Presentation Aesthetics One People's Choice nomination popular vote of the local participants In the global judging round, a panel of NASA judges will select winners in each of the five finalist categories: Best Mission Concept, Best Use of Hardware Best Use of Data Most Inspiring Galactic Impact

Slide 15

Awards and Winners On Saturday, all participants will be given certificates for participating Nominations that move forward for global judging will be required to provide a one- minute video within one week of the event to be used in the global judging process Global winners will be eligible to attend a NASA launch event

Slide 16

NASAs Data Portal Launched in 2015 offering datasets, APIs, visualizations, and more to the public Data categories include: aerospace, applied science, earth science, management/operations, and space science Data types include: charts, tables, calendars, maps, forms, documents, links, and filtered views

Slide 17

Sample Types of Software used at NASA (Chart)

Slide 18

Sample Stars with Constellations from the Digital Universe atlas (Tabular data)

Slide 19

NASAs Data Portal Developer Resources Every dataset has an API API documentation available in the Developer Resources section Get started at: https://data.nasa.gov Developer Resources at: https://data.nasa.gov/developer

Slide 20

NASA Space Apps Challenge with Bluemix by IBM IBM is offering Bluemix as a cloud development platform to help rapidly build apps Example using IBMs IoT service on Bluemix to analyze sensor data for a robot simulator IBM has guidance for using specific services for specific challenges. More on that at: http://te2.co/bluemixforspaceapps2015 IBM will award one prize per location for the most innovative use of IBM Bluemix Prize is $12K of Cloud credit, including high-level tech support More at: http://te2.co/ibmspaceapps2015

Slide 21

Some Solutions Offered by IBM Bluemix Runtimes Liberty for Java, Node.js, Go, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Ruby Sinatra Docker containers OpenStack virtual machines MobileFirst Platform including support for iOS Cognitive apps with Watson Big Data Hadoop, dashDB, IBM Analytics, IBM Insights, Geospatial Analytics Full list at: https://console.ng.bluemix.net/solutions/

Slide 22

Need Help Finding Data? NASA data scientist Jeanne Holm will be tuning in throughout the Space Apps weekend to support people who need support finding datasets, to answer questions, and to be a sounding board if you just want to do a bit of brainstorming! You can reach Jeanne through the following channels: Twitter: @JeanneHolm Skype: NASA_Jeanne LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanneholm Tumblr: Science Data Geek Stack Exchange: Open Data Stack Exchange Github: https://github.com/JeanneHolm

Slide 23

Social Media #SpaceApps @spaceapps @spaceappsCLE Also use the hashtag of the project Use the hashtag of the theme #Humans #Earth #Robotics #Outerspace #cleveland Live Twitter feed displayed in main conference room Tumblr site: http://spaceapps-cleveland.tumblr.com/

Slide 24

Credits OHTec Brad Nellis Adina Magda Angela Presutti Cleveland Tech Events Sarah Dutkiewicz Catering Food for Thought

Slide 25

Credits NASA Glenn MIC Conference Center Scheduler Lynn Simmons Office of Protective Services Del Simonovich Office of Communications & External Relations Kelly Difrancesco Lori Rachul Nancy Kilkenny Exhibits Team David Defelice Dwayne Hunt Logistics and Technical Information Division Gary Nolan Matt Murray

Slide 26

Credits NASA Glenn, Office of the CIO Sean Gallagher, NASA Glenn CIO Raju Shah, NASA Glenn Deputy CIO Holly Walburn, Administrative Assistant Scientific Computing and Visualization Team Calvin Robinson Brian Sommers Rich Rinehart Herb Schilling Networking Team Dave Kunath Greg Campbell Risk Management and Security Office Gib Winter IT Point of Contact Barb Wilson

Slide 27

Credits NASA Glenn Speakers Matt Melis Jeff Chin Additional Exhibits Colin Creager SLOPE Lab Rohit Shastry Electric Propulsion Chris Lynch - Scientific Imaging Anne Mills NASA Glenn History Lindsay Hill, Tim Gallagher Space Communication

Slide 28

Slide 29

Contact Space Apps Twitter: @spaceapps Skype: "spaceapps IRC: Join the #spaceapps chat channel Aren't familiar with IRC? Head to webchat.freenode.net and type in your nickname and #spaceapps as the channel you want to join. Contact the global organizers via email by reaching out to elizabeth@spaceappschallenge.org or blake.garcia@spaceappschallenge.org blake.garcia@spaceappschallenge.org use the #AskSpaceApps hashtag Space Apps web team will be available at web@spaceappschallenge.org, also there weill be an open IRC channel available for participants interested in collaborating virtually