[Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

[Suchith Anand]

Fully agree Patrick.  This is also a great opportunity for students to learn the importance of sharing their knowledge for the benefit of the wider humanity . This is  key part of values based education.

Education is not getting some degrees or qualifications alone. I have met some people with so many advanced qualifications but are focussed on their personal advancement alone. I also have met lots and lots of people (some of them even had no formal education)  who have inspired me with their spirit of sharing and selflessly working for the benefit of others.

This NASA Europa Challenge is a great example for Openness in Science and Education
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2016/07/sharing-is-caring-why-openness-is-key-for-true-empowerment-and-sustainability/

Thanks to you, Maria and all the mentors  of this great challenge for students who have worked on this over the years. This will provide ideas for others to work for Openness in Science and Education .

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov>
Sent: 28 July 2017 5:49 AM
To: Anand Suchith; discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Suchith,

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.

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.

The methodology being the old ‘standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants’ trick. OSGeo/FOSS4G are the giants we stand on!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants


-Patrick

From: GeoForAll [mailto:geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Suchith Anand
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 1:58 AM
To: discuss at lists.osgeo.org; geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: [Geo4All] Helsinki NASA Europa Challenge 2017

Dear colleagues,

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.


Some of the excellent projects submitted are below


      *   AWARE Algorithmic Wildfire Analysis and pREdiction
       *   Earth Viewer for the World Heritage Sites
      *   EXODUS -Monitoring and Regulating the approaching traffic and manipulating the signal time accordingly
      *   Make the Farms Searchable from Satellite Imagery with Crop Based Deep learning Models
      *   FarmsNtech
      *  NASA World Weather
      *. 3D OpenStreetMap


Details at  http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com


All projects submitted for years challenge are at http://www.nasaeuropachallenge.com/projects2017



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 http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2017/03/smarties-entrepreneurship-competition-nasa-europa-challenge-2017/


>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 http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/nasa-godan-local-farming-challenge-2017


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.

We are looking forward to welcoming all teams for our final event in Helsinki , Finland  in August 2017.

Best wishes,

Suchith

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.







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