A team of Ukrainian developers won first place in the international hackathon NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024. More than 90,000 IT professionals from around the world took part in the competition, and 10,000 teams created their projects.
According to a post on Facebook by Roman Malkevych, who was the Local Lead of this competition in Kyiv, about 1000 projects were evaluated directly by NASA during the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024 hackathon.
"A team from Kyiv won the NASA hackathon. To make it clear how serious it is, more than 90,000 people from all over the world took part in the competition and about 10,000 teams created projects. About 1000 projects were evaluated directly by NASA. And among them, our team won! Congratulations to the team and thanks to everyone involved," Roman wrote.
He thanked the partners, without whom it would have been difficult to implement our team's NVS-knot project, which involves the use of Earth observation data to make informed agricultural decisions.
The partners included the IT company Genesis, the Ukrainian Startup Fund, the Kyiv Aviation Institute, and the MySat project.
| Reference: NASA Space Apps Challenge is an international hackathon founded in 2012 that takes place under the auspices of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in various countries around the world. The competition takes place every year and lasts 48 hours, during which space enthusiasts from all over the world work on solving real-world problems from NASA. In 2023, the hackathon was won in the Best Use of Data category by the Ukrainian team Storm Prophet, which forecasts geomagnetic storms using DSCOVR data analysis and LSTM models. |
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