The journey to the finale of the International Space Apps Challenge Nigeria began in Calabar on Thursday the 10th of April, at the iDeaHub Tinapa. Things didn’t get underway in Lagos until the press conference held at the iDeaHub Lagos, on the 11th of April. The hackathon proper didn’t kick of in either city until the following day after their respective press conferences. The Space App Challenge is meant to be a 2-day hacktahon, so things came to a close in Calabar on Saturday the 12th of April, and in Lagos yesterday.
The Teams
Developers were required to go through a list of challenges, brainstorm and then form teams based on those challenges. For challenges, teams had a choice between:
- Any of the NASA-defined global challenge categories, to be built on any development platform of choice or;
- Any of the 4 local technology partner challenges, within their stipulated development platforms
18 teams (made up of groups and individuals) were involved in the Lagos hackathon. Calabar had a total of 12 teams participating. By night of Saturday, 2 of those teams had hacked their way into the finale. They will do battle against the 18 Lagos teams at the Demo and Awards Ceremony holding today at the iDeaHub in Lagos.
Below is a list of the teams pitching today and their chosen challenge/category
Teams Calabar
- Team CodeMach – Community visions of climate adaptation
- Team NIXIT – Animate your world
Teams Lagos
- Show Team- Alert Alert
- Team Sapphire – Climate and my neighbourhood (Tom Tom platform)
- Team Nugget – Climate and my neighbourhood (Tom Tom platform)
- Team Jiz – Coastal Inundation in your community (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Team Hazard – Coastal Inundation in your community (Alpha5 Platform)
- Team Clifacts – Community visions of climate adaptation
- Team Eagle – Earth as Art (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Team Valiant – Earth Defense (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Team Solo – NASA small business one-stop
- Team Habitant – Solar System Habitats (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Team X – Where on Earth (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Team Locate it – Where on Earth
- Team Orion – Where on Earth (Alpha5 / Tom Tom platform)
- Team GEE – Where on Earth ( Windows Phone 8 platform)
Individuals
- Omoseni Damola – Alert Alert
- Victor Akinwande – Image-ine earth / Yesterday and today
- Toni Solarin – Where on Earth (Windows Phone 8 platform)
- Kolawole Olulana – Where on Earth / Gravity Map.
How the winners will be chosen
Only 1 of these teams stands to win cash prize of $3000, as overall winner. There will also be prizes for winners in each of the technology partner categories. 4 of the best apps are eligible for submission to NASA. That’s two already from Calabar, and 2 more to be chosen from among the Lagos teams today.
