Virtual EO Dashboard Hackathon about the COVID-19 Challenges and the Chance to Win Valuable Prizes

The EO Dashboard Hackathon invites scientists, entrepreneurs, designers, storytellers, makers, builders, artists, technologists, and space enthusiasts to join NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for the all-virtual, global Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon.

The EO Dashboard Hackathon is a week-long hackathon taking place on June 23-29th. It will start on June 23 at 9:00 AM and end on June 29 at 11:59 PM.

Topics Challenges:

All of the challenges are designed to get you engaged with the Earth Observing Dashboard. While some of the challenges will be technical in nature, others will ask you to use your creative storytelling abilities. In particular, the challenges will focus on the following indicators of COVID-19:

• Water quality.
• Economic impact.
• Agricultural impact.
• Greenhouse gas.
• Interconnected Earth system impact.
• Social impact.

While the main purpose of the hackathon is to encourage collaboration and problem solving, the hackathon will have winners and awards.

All Global Award Winners will be invited to attend a NASA mission launch when travel is deemed safe again. Furthermore, some Global Awards will be accompanied by additional rewards from ESA and JAXA, including opportunities to integrate winning solutions into the EO Dashboard, and/or to upscale solutions using EuroDataCube, and/or to access additional data and computing resources, and/or to visit a Science Hub in Rome, Italy.

Global Winners will be responsible for their own travel costs, and winning teams may conduct fundraising to support their trip.

Everyone who participates in the hackathon will receive an individual certificate of participation (regardless of whether your team wins an award.)

The five Global Awards are as follows:

• Open Science Award: The solution that best demonstrates the use of open science principles, which includes transparency, inclusion, accessibility, and reproducibility.
• Outreach Award: The solution that most creatively communicates the storytelling power of the Dashboard.
• Data Award: The solution that maximizes the use of Earth observation data and leverages it to a unique application.
• Technology Award: The solution that develops an innovative technical approach and is equipped for integration into the Dashboard.
• Impact Award: The solution with the most potential to advance our knowledge of the effects of pandemics using EO data.

• All passionate problem solvers are encouraged to join -- coders, experts, engineers, designers, artists, storytellers, students, and Earth and space enthusiasts.
• As you’re building your team, consider the different roles that people will play and keep in mind that the most diverse teams are often the most successful.
• Participants who are under the age of 18 are required to be registered for the event by a parent or legal guardian and must be accompanied during the event at all times by a parent or legal guardian.
• An individual is allowed to work and submit a project independently. However, hackathons encourage all attendees to be part of a team. Please note that the limit for a team is 6 people.
• Participants will be able to register their teams on eodashboardhackathon.org when the hackathon begins on June 23 at 9:00 AM (local time.) You may add members to your team until the hackathon closes on June 29 at 11:59 PM.
• One person from each team is responsible for registering the team. Please note that the team will be associated with the regional location of the Team Lead, meaning that the team will appear on the regional location page associated with the Team Lead. The regional location to which a team is tied will have no impact on the way the project is judged or by whom it is judged.
• When the hackathon begins on June 29 at 9:00 AM (local time), you will be able to chat with other participants in the chat rooms, including potential teammates. In addition to forming your own team, you will also be able to search for and request to join an existing team! Detailed information about this process will be included in the Team Formation Guide, which will be posted on the website before the hackathon begins.

About the EO Dashboard Hackathon:

In June 2020, NASA joined with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and ESA (European Space Agency) to create the COVID-19 Earth Observing Dashboard (eodashboard.org). The interactive dashboard has been used to track changes in food production, air pollution, ship traffic, water quality, and more. To celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Dashboard, the space agencies are hosting a hackathon from June 23-29, 2021, called the Earth Observation Dashboard Hackathon (or the “EO Dashboard Hackathon” for short).

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