Welcome to Space Apps Seattle
Home of the Seattle NASA International Space Apps Challenge →
A global hackathon in the city that unites tech and space!
Friday, Oct 4th – Sunday Oct 6th, 2024
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What is Space Apps?
NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge → takes place each year over the course of 48 hours to spark innovation on NASA challenges that benefit missions in space and life on Earth.
- Build a team
- Pick your challenge from NASA’s missions or bring your own
- Hack away!
You have two days to build your project and put it before the judges.
Winners that become finalists in NASA’s global judging round have a shot at a special tour of Kennedy Space Center!
Come to Space Apps if you are…
- A programmer, a data scientist, an engineer, a storyteller, a student, an educator, a project manager, an entrepreneur
- You love data and you want to transform NASA’s open data sets into real world applications
- You are passionate about space and you want to join in building our future together for the benefit of humanity.
- You love hardware. Yes! Hardware projects welcome – Space Apps is more than “apps”! Bring your love for boards and dream up a solution for Earth or your own mission in space.
2024 NASA Space App Speakers & Judges
Meet this Year’s Speaker
Dorothy “Dottie” Metcalf-Lindenburger
Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger → is a retired NASA astronaut, aquanaut, geologist, and educator.
She grew up in Colorado and came to Washington state in 1993 to attend college. A scholar athlete, she ran cross-country and track and earned her B.A. in Geology from Whitman College. She went on to get a teaching certification from Central Washington University, and she taught earth science and astronomy for five years at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, WA. In addition to teaching, she coached cross country and Science Olympiad.
In June of 2004, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) selected her to join the Astronaut Corps. After several years of training, she flew as a mission specialist on the STS-131 crew, an International Space Station (ISS) resupply mission.
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In June of 2012, Dottie commanded the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operation (NEEMO) in the Aquarius Reef Habitat off the Florida coast. The 16th underwater mission sought to develop techniques for working at an asteroid, while operating under a 100-second time delay.
In 2014, Dottie retired from the Astronaut Corps and returned to the Pacific Northwest with her family. She currently is a part-time lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell, runs her own business Dottie ML, LLC, and volunteers as a board member for Challenger Learning Center, the Seattle Museum of Flight, and the Presidential Advisory Board for Whitman College.
Meet this Year’s Judges
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