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Why Join NASA Space Apps?
Join a global community where science, technology, design, and storytelling come together. Work with NASA Open Data, learn directly from mentors and teammates, and develop practical solutions for challenges on Earth and in space. Along the way, you will strengthen valuable skills, expand your professional network, and create a portfolio-ready project with meaningful real-world impact.
Build with NASA Open Data
Explore real NASA datasets and technologies to create practical solutions for challenges on Earth and in space.
Connect with a Global Community
Collaborate with students, professionals, scientists, mentors, and creators from diverse backgrounds worldwide.
Grow Your Skills and Portfolio
Strengthen teamwork, design, coding, and presentation skills while building a project you can showcase.
Explore NASA Open Data to understand our planet, explore space, and build solutions with real impact.
Earth Observation Data
Analyze satellite imagery, climate, weather, land, and ocean data to map disasters, monitor environmental change, and support resilient communities.
Space Science & Astronomy Data
Explore data about planets, asteroids, solar activity, and NASA missions to build visualizations, educational tools, and new research ideas.
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2025 Global Challenge in Numbers
18,860
Teams
551
Local Events
167
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11,511
Projects Submitted
14
Space Agency Partners
124
Subject Matter Experts
78
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Benefits of Joining NASA Space Apps
Build Skills, Connections, and Solutions That Matter
Take part in a global hackathon where your curiosity becomes action. Explore NASA Open Data, solve meaningful challenges, and create a project that strengthens your skills, portfolio, and professional network.
Gain Real-World
Experience
Learn by doing with real NASA datasets, mentor feedback, teamwork, and a working prototype you can showcase.
Join a Global
Community
Collaborate with students, experts, designers, scientists, and developers while building valuable connections worldwide.
Your NASA Space Apps
Questions, Answered
Showing 5 of 5 FAQs.
Everyone is welcome, including students, professionals, designers, developers, educators, scientists, storytellers, makers, and curious beginners. You do not need a space background to participate.
No. Strong teams also need research, design, data analysis, storytelling, communication, science, engineering, and project management skills. Bring your strengths and learn with your teammates.
Yes. You can register individually and meet potential teammates during orientation, community sessions, or team formation activities. Many successful teams meet for the first time at the event.
Teams can analyze NASA and partner datasets such as satellite imagery, weather, climate, ocean, land, planetary, and mission data, then transform them into apps, maps, dashboards, prototypes, learning tools, or public-impact stories.
You will gain hands-on experience, a portfolio-ready project, mentor feedback, new professional connections, and the confidence to turn complex data into meaningful real-world impact.
Your Journey Through NASA Space Apps
Start by registering and finding your team, create a solution during the two-day global hackathon, then advance through local and global judging.
Register & Form a Team
Step
Register from August 26, explore challenge summaries from September 17, and connect with participants whose skills complement your own.
Create & Submit
Step
During the November 14–15 hackathon, choose a challenge, use NASA and partner open data, build your solution, and submit the complete project.
Judging & Global Awards
Step
Local and Universal Event judges select Global Nominees before NASA and Space Agency Partner experts choose the finalists and 10 Global Winners.
Stories from NASA Space Apps
Indonesia Participants
“Working with NASA Open Data made science feel tangible. Our team transformed complex Earth observation data into an idea that people could actually understand and use.”
Siti Rahmawati
Data Science Student
“I joined without a space science background and discovered that design matters just as much as code. Mentors helped us turn a rough concept into a clear, meaningful solution.”
Bima Santoso
Product Designer
“The challenge connected my environmental research with technology and storytelling. It showed me how multidisciplinary teamwork can create solutions with genuine local impact.”
Nadine Putri
Environmental Researcher
“The best part was meeting people from different fields and learning quickly together. In one weekend, we built a prototype I am proud to include in my portfolio.”
Rizky Maulana
University Student
“NASA Space Apps gave our local idea a global perspective. The feedback, community, and access to open data inspired me to keep developing the project after the event.”
Ayu Lestari
Community Innovator
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