{"id":2030,"date":"2013-04-22T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/2030-nasa-space-apps-roundup.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T12:48:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T16:48:44","slug":"nasa-space-apps-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/nasa-space-apps-roundup","title":{"rendered":"NASA Space Apps Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span>This weekend we sponsored the <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/2022-NASA-International-Space-Apps-Challenge.html\" target=\"_blank\">NASA International Space Apps Challenge<\/a> in New York. All around the world, over 9000 people collaborated to work on 50 different challenges ranging from a chicken farming in your backyard to lassoing asteroids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/x_group.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Shapeways was thrilled to take part, and it was exciting to watch projects come together in such a short time!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/x_crowd1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Three teams tackled the 3D printing challenge including a team who worked on a drone with sonar that mapped asteroids (shown demonstrating their drone above) and a space ship creator for kids.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately our award went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptechnyc.org\/site\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">P Tech<\/a> team for their &#8220;Star Map Sculpture&#8221;. This group of high schoolers worked with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robertcarlsen\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Carlsen<\/a> to make a 3D printable visualization of a star neighborhood, using the space between the stars to create printable geometries. The result was a beautiful sculpture, that makes it easy to see the loneliness of stars, and our galaxy.<\/p>\n<p><span>They won a voucher for printing at Shapeways, and a sneak-peak tour of our factory &#8211; congratulations!<\/span><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/x_ptech.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In the words of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Astro_Ron\" target=\"_blank\">astronaut Ron Garan<\/a>, whose inspiring talk kicked off the weekend:<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have the technology to enable global collaboration. 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