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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailEndCompose"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Suchith,<o:p></o:p></span></font></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">There is nothing more beautiful than inspiring and challenging our youth to deliver solutions that serve their
local community, with an eye to be shared with the global community. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">This has been the Europa Challenge mantra born of a week-long intensive course Prof Maria Brovelli put together
in 2012 at Politecnico di Milan at Como. We gathered to discover a formula to engender applied open source solutions. Challenging our youth to build these open source solutions became the key element.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The methodology being the old ‘standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants’ trick. OSGeo/FOSS4G are the giants we stand
on!</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> GeoForAll
[mailto:geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of
</span></b>Suchith Anand<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:58 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> discuss@lists.osgeo.org; geoforall@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" color="black" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Dear colleagues,<br>
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On behalf of GeoForAll, I am pleased to see excellent projects taking shape for this year's NASA Europa Challenge . All these students have put lot of efforts and even if they don’t win the final awards , they all are true winners.<br>
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Some of the excellent projects submitted are below<br>
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* AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction<br>
* Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites<br>
* EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and manipulating the signal time accordingly<br>
* Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep learning Models<br>
* FarmsNtech<br>
* NASA World Weather<br>
*. 3D OpenStreetMap<br>
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Details at <a href="http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com" id="LPlnk394995">http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com</a> <br>
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All projects submitted for years challenge are at <a href="http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017" id="LPlnk315961">
http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017</a> <br>
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There is RCUK SMARTIES Challenge awards (due to the nature of the RCUK funding, the SMARTIES awards are specific to all UK and India students who participate in the NASA Europa Challenge 2017.). Total awards are for £5000. (£2500 for First Place, £1500 for
the Second Place and £1000 for the Third Place) Details at <a href="http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/" id="LPlnk790388">
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/</a> <br>
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>From the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) , there will be 1000 Euros award for the best student team for Local farming challenge. Details at
<a href="http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017" id="LPlnk556926">
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017</a> <br>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Help your city and thereby the cities of the world with capabilities all cities need. We are in this world together, let’s deliver results ‘for the benefit of all’, the NASA motto.</span></b><br>
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We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , Finland in August 2017.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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PS: I am also pleased to update that Prof. Stuart Marsh will be from now the main contact for all the Open Source Geospatial research at the University of Nottingham.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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