Space Apps Nyc

in 2012, new york city became a founding site for nasa's space apps challenge, a worldwide hackathon that has enabled historic global collaboration between volunteers, private companies, ngos, and government agencies. in 2016 over 15,000 people participated all over the world from 161 cities building 1,300 projects. since its founding, our space apps nyc team has locally organized five hackathons and two conferences, has hosted nasa's global mainstage two years in a row, and has grown our diverse space hacker community to the largest and most active chapter with over 1,800 hackers! also, by partnering with space apps brooklyn, we are expanding to more boroughs in order to run multiple locations for the hackathon and bootcamp. leading up to our hackathon we run a series of workshops and bootcamps for our hacker community. started in 2015 under nasa’s women in data initiative (now datanauts), our bootcamps target women and minority demographics who are underrepresented in stem programs.