Five UAE cities.
One global hackathon.

Abandoned but not Forgotten: Storytelling about NASA's Discarded Equipment on the Moon and Mars

Since the 1960s, NASA has left hardware across the solar system–on the Moon, on Mars, and in deep space. From rovers and instruments that completed their science missions to probes still traveling away from Earth this hardware varies widely in both its purpose and current level of functionality. Your challenge is to tell the story of some or all of this equipment that introduces school-age space enthusiasts to the hardware and the science it made possible.

Be An Earth System Trend Detective!

Change is always occurring in the Earth’s interconnected environmental system, and when it runs in a consistent direction – rising or falling, increasing or decreasing, thickening or thinning – measured variables reflect it. But a variable can trend one way in one region and the opposite way in another, even when the same process drives both. Your challenge is to find and examine variables measured by NASA missions or produced by NASA models, visualize how they change over time, and determine what is changing, where it is changing, how much it is changing, and if these changes are what scientists call “significant.”

Build a Junior Astronaut Mission Trainer

Space-themed STEM content often oversimplifies the engineering trade-offs that define a real mission or presents them at a level too complex to hold a young learner's attention. Few tools make those trade-offs both tangible and fun. Your challenge is to design and build an interactive game or app that lets students run a lunar or Martian outpost, balancing competing demands like life support, radiation shielding, power, and food production, so they experience firsthand the decisions that determine whether a mission fails or succeeds.