The NASA Space Apps Challenge Live Global Winners Announcement

On Tuesday, January 23, 2024, the NASA International Space Apps Challenge announced the 2023 Global Winners as well as dates for the next hackathon. Former NASA astronaut Dr. Cady Coleman and members of the NASA Space Apps Global Organizing (GO) Team announced the Global Winners in a live announcement from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. This year's winning teams represent the top 10 projects selected from the 5,500+ teams that took part in the 2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge. The winning teams are composed of participants from 11 different countries and territories.

Each project showcases the creativity and innovation of our global community and how open source data can be used by anyone, anywhere to tackle real world problems on Earth and in space. This year’s winning teams responded to challenges addressing climate change, data visualization, space exploration, biodiversity, and science storytelling.

"From the Global Nominees to Global Finalists to Honorable Mentions and to the final Global Winners - you are all creating solutions that are helping communities worldwide and our planet,” said Dr. Cady Coleman. “Your innovative solutions using NASA and Space Agency Partner open data and your commitment to global collaboration are paving the way...for the next generation of scientists, technologists, designers, and storytellers."

The 2023 NASA Space Apps Challenge Global Winners:

Best Use of Science Award: LunarTech Ensemble
Challenge: Make a Moonquake Map 2.0!
Country/Territory: Egypt

This team developed a website and immersive game to help people understand and visualize the lunar seismic data gathered by instruments left behind during NASA's Apollo missions.

Learn more about LunarTech Ensemble’s winning project

Best Use of Data Award: Storm Prophet
Challenge: Develop the Oracle of DSCOVR
Country/Territory: Ukraine

Team "Storm Prophet" created a data model to accurately predict geomagnetic storm levels using data analysis and LSTM models.

Learn more about Storm Prophet’s winning project

Best Use of Technology Award: Spacebee
Challenge: Make a Moonquake Map 2.0!
Country/Territory: United States and Argentina (Universal Event)

This team developed a website that integrates moonquake data collected by seismometers deployed on Apollo missions, including the moonquake locations, type of moonquake, and date and data plots based on Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) Apollo experiments data.

Learn more about Spacebee’s winning project

Galactic Impact Award: Greetings from Earth!!
Challenge: Ocean Gardens
Country/Territory: Brazil

This team developed an interactive website that provides a visualization of NASA data that allows the user to visualize oceans not merely as vast expanses of water, but as the gardens of our planet, regulating climate and nurturing diverse life forms.

Learn more about Greetings from Earth!!’s winning project

Best Mission Concept Award: ASTROGENESIS
Challenge: Planetary Tourism Office
Country/Territory: Peru

This team created an interactive platform that allows you to explore the cosmos by creating personalized itineraries to visit planets, moons, and other celestial destinations.

Learn more about ASTROGENESIS’s winning project

Most Inspirational Award: Space Quest Maidens - Donzelas da Missao Espacial
Challenge: Eclipses: Perspective is Everything
Country/Territory: Brazil

This team developed an interactive educational tool called ECLIPSE: CELESTIAL SHADOWS to teach children about the mechanics of eclipses.

Learn more about Space Quest Maidens - Donzelas da Missão Espacial's winning project

Best Storytelling Award: Team Voyagers
Challenge: Everything Starts with Water
Country/Territory: Bangladesh

Team Voyagers built an interactive web-based game that tells the story of the complexities of the water cycle, as well as the urgent need to understand the climate’s impact on freshwater resources.

Learn more about Team Voyagers’ winning project

Global Connection Award: Arcobaleno
Challenge: Immersed in the Sounds of Space
Country/Territory: Brazil

Team Arcoboleno created a method that transforms 2D and 3D images into a sensory experience. Their project aims to provide people with sight impairments a way to connect with the world and explore the cosmos through the sonification of NASA open data.

Learn more about Arcobaleno’s winning project

Art & Technology Award: Oogway Comics
Challenge: Habitable Exoplanets: Creating Worlds Beyond Our Own
Country/Territory: Tajikistan

Oogway Comics used NASA data to conceptualize an exoplanet suitable for life and developed a comic book to tell the planet's story.

Learn more about Oogway Comics’ winning project

Local Impact Award: $quality_over_quantity
Challenge: Explore a Biodiversity Hotspot with Imaging Spectroscopy
Country/Territory: Taiwan

This team developed a method to explore local biodiversity hotspots and prioritize protection of areas with more efficiency.

Learn more about $quality_over_quantitys’ winning project

When is the next NASA Space Apps Challenge?

We also announced the dates for the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge in our Global Winners Announcement! Interested in participating in the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge? Mark your calendars for October 5 and 6, 2024! Registration will open later this year. At that time, participants will be able to register for an in-person or virtual Local Event hosted by NASA Space Apps Local Leads around the world.

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