Over 300 students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and specialists participated in the event.
Bahrains National Space Science Agency (NSSA), in collaboration with NASA, organised the seventh edition of the global space science applications hackathon from October 5 to 6, 2024. Over 300 students, entrepreneurs, professionals, and specialists participated in the event. The hackathon was held at the University of Bahrain and Bahrain Polytechnic simultaneously. The Bahrain Society of Engineers contributed towards hosting and organising the event.
The NASA Space Apps Challenge is the largest annual global hackathon. This year, the NASA Space Apps Challenge welcomed 15 international space agency partners, including the Communications, Space & Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia, National Space Science Agency of Bahrain, and the Turkish Space Agency.
During the NASA Space Apps Challenge, participants around the world gather at hundreds of simultaneous in-person and virtual local events to address challenges submitted by subject matter experts across NASA divisions. These challenges range in complexity and topic, tasking participants with everything from creating artistic visualizations of NASA data to conceptualizing and developing informational apps and software programs.
This theme for this years hackathon was The Sun Touches Everything. NASA Space Apps invited participants to consider the far-reaching influence of the Sun on Earth and space science.
