During the weekend on 4-5th October 2025, NASA (USA’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration) organized an annually recurring global hackathon called the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. As a part of this hackathon, numerous organizations and partners organize in cooperation and training from NASA, local events all around the world - one of them being in Gothenburg - NASA International Space Apps Challenge at YESBOX. The topic for this year’s hackathon was “Learn, Launch, Lead!” where NASA provided open data in many different formats to allow for unlimited possibilities.
We are happy that many of our Software Engineering and Management bachelors students from all years and also SKIP members have attended and participated in this exciting hackathon (we believe that around half of all participants were from SEM). Participants organized themselves into teams and after the initial ceremony strived to create innovative projects that tackled one of the many intriguing challenges!
NASA and their partners worldwide provided numerous data resources and tools for the participants to use. The first day had concluded with a visit to the Universeum’s Wisdome and later an evening mingle.
The weekend was filled with hard-working groups and on Sunday’s afternoon also inspiring presentations. Once the event had concluded, the local judges decided on the local event winners Global Nominees, who are then to be judged directly by NASA and their partners.
With the Global Nominees being announced yesterday, we are proud to mention that among the winners of this year’s hackathon are SEM 3rd year students and fellow SKIP board members, continuing our streak from last year!
More photos can be found on our Social Media.
Congratulations to all the groups for creating stunning projects and thank you for representing our programme!