NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022 Revealed its Winners

100 participants, 19 innovative ideas and 4 winners - Georgia hosted the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022.

The Georgian edition of the largest hackathon on the planet ended on October 2, and the event was hosted by Kutaisi International University (KIU).

After two days of intensive work, the teams presented their ideas and project prototypes to the jury. The team TON 618 took the first place and received 5000 GEL and the opportunity to present the project at the NASA Space Apps Challenge global competition.

The winning project facilitates the process of searching for information in NASA databases. The application uses artificial intelligence to help scientists, researchers, students and all interested people find specific information in a large database faster and easier.

The second place went to team IGN, which told us about the journey of NASA's unprecedented project, the Parker Solar Probe, from Earth to the Sun in the most understandable form for a young audience - a comic book.

Special prizes of Kutaisi International University and Edison went to teams Space T-Rex and How Dare You.

NASA Space Apps is an annual hackathon that is held simultaneously in 300 different cities around the world and attracts thousands of participants. The goal of the project is for the young participants of the hackathon to work together on real NASA data and find innovative solutions to the most pressing problems of the planet and space in a limited time (48 hours).

In addition to data directly from NASA, hackathon participants use data from space research centers in Australia, Canada, Brazil, Europe, Japan, Argentina, Mexico, India, Bahrain, Paraguay and South Africa.

NASA Space Apps Challenge Tbilisi & Kutaisi 2022 was organized by Startup Bureau.

Hackathon was hosted by Technopark of Georgia and Kutaisi International University.

The main partners of the hackathon were Orient Logic and the Georgian Innovation and Technology Agency.

Supporters were: Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in South Caucasus, Beeline, Noxton, Edison, DataFest Tbilisi and Media Lab.