Space Apps Showcase (Open Data Week)

Presenter: Nate Cooper (Kingsborough Community College)

In this session, learn about the NASA Space Apps Challenge, NASA’s global data hackathon. Each year NASA posts 11 challenges to use its data in unique ways over the course of a weekend. Last year, there were over 100k participants globally. You’ll meet participants from last year’s hackathon including winning teams, judges, and mentors from the NYC local site. What does it take to turn an open data set into something useful, fun, and engaging? Learn what happened, what projects are still being developed, and how to build your own solutions using NASA’s data. Following a presentation, we’ll do a hands-on workshop so you can learn how to build your own open data app.

Bio: Nate Cooper is a lecturer in the UX Design concentration at Kingsborough College. Nate has been a Partner at SWARM, a UX, Product Design Agency founded in 2013 in New York City.

Nate has been developing websites professionally since 1997. After working in marketing at Apple Inc, Nate established himself within the New York tech and startup community. His writing has appeared in Mashable and his book Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS and WordPress has been a bestseller in Programming: CSS books on Amazon.com.