The first Space Apps in 2012 was attended by approximately 2,000 people at 25 events in 17 countries- still a great outcome, but over the past ten years, the program has grown rapidly in numbers, breadth, and depth. Space Apps wasn’t always the largest global hackathon in the world. Read NASA's press release: "NASA’s 10th Space Apps Challenge Increases Global Participation" Stay engaged with Space Apps on social media and #spaceapps) to see how you can be a part of it all! Amplifying community stories will be at the forefront while we highlight 10 years of leaders and achievements. This year we will also celebrate a decade of collaboration, innovation, discovery, and community-led solution creation. The 2021 challenge statements also echo The Power of Ten theme, including challenges for participants of all ages and skill levels that feature empowerment and “super powers.”įrom a communications point-of-view, the 10th anniversary of Space Apps will serve as a rallying point to amplify and expand upon the efforts of previous Space Apps Challenges as we build for a more connected and engaged community, year-round. See details here! As always, Space Apps winning teams are invited to view a rocket launch as NASA’s guests. NASA welcomes the Australian Space Agency, Brazilian Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, National Space Activities Commission of Argentina, National Space Science Agency of Bahrain, Paraguayan Space Agency, and South African National Space Agency to the Space Apps 2021 family.Īnd The Power of Ten doesn’t end there! Space Apps will feature four new and more inclusive award categories this year, for a grand total of ten Global Awards. Groundbreaking for its time ( Powers of Ten was created almost 40-years ago in 1977), the short’s archetypal aesthetic is one that has now been replicated many times in the world of filmmaking (the film has even been reimagined by 40 innovative artists from around the world – including SotW favourites Max Hattler & Zumbakamera) and its now hard to look at the film without thinking of Google’s now quintessential Maps/Earth projectsĪn adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, director Paul Schrader perfectly summarises Powers of Ten as a film that enables an audience member to “think of himself a citizen of the universe” and it’s this timely reminder of mankind’s tiny importance in the history of the universe, that makes (and will always make) this groundbreaking film from Charles and Ray Eames such an important watch.This year marks the tenth annual NASA International Space Apps Challenge, the largest global hackathon on Earth! In honor of this event, the theme for Space Apps 2021 is “The Power of Ten.” This year, NASA will commemorate ten amazing years of community, collaboration, and solving by forming a power-team of ten international space agencies who will work together to make Space Apps accessible to more communities worldwide. Created by iconic designers Charles and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten embarks on an adventure in magnitudes, as we travel from a lakeside picnic in Chicago to the furthest reaches of the cosmos, until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others.ĭescribed in its opening as ‘a film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effects of adding another zero’, Powers of Ten has not only become an important entry into the short film arena, but also an essential tool for teaching and understanding the importance of scale. On a day when NASA celebrated its Juno probe successfully entering Jupiter’s orbit after a five year voyage from Earth, we take a journey through space in what is considered ‘one of most famous short films ever made’.
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