The NASA Space Apps Challenge Thrissur 2023, organised by Unique World Robotics in association with the Kerala Start-up Mission (KSUM), has emerged as a big event in the extensive global hackathon by the U.S. space agency.
As many as 4,126 participants from 448 teams converged at the Thrissur event, making it the biggest among the 402 such events held across 165 countries. With ‘Let’s Explore Open Science Together’ as the theme, the event featuring 30 challenges was held at Jyothi Engineering College in Cheruthuruthy.
Three teams won the global nomination: ‘Cassini’ from CKMNSS Senior Secondary School, Chalakudy, ‘Maxq’ from Jyothi Engineering College and ‘Red Spot’ from St. Albert’s College, Ernakulam. An evaluation committee under the guidelines provided by the NASA Space Apps selected the global nominees, which met the challenges by prescribing solutions by using NASA’s open-source data..
