For the past year, Karolina Gorna, a second-year engineering student at T\u00e9l\u00e9com SudParis, has led\u00a0<\/strong>Kryptosphere<\/strong><\/a>, the first student association specializing in blockchain and new technologies. She is passionate about space and spatial economics and was chosen by NASA as community lead for\u00a0<\/strong>Space Apps Challenge Paris 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The challenge is part of a NASA<\/a> incubation program and is the largest international hackathon. The event gathers participants from around the world for one weekend of creating computer applications. This year, it brought together 26,000 participants from 150 countries and territories.\u00a0The goal of the challenge is to utilize data collected by satellites to solve practical problems on earth or in space.<\/strong><\/p>\n What makes this challenge unique is that all the data provided by the five partner space agencies\u2013NASA, CSA, CNES, ESA\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0JAXA<\/strong>\u2013is open source and therefore publicly available. Such large amounts of data are not easy to process. The NASA International Space Apps Challenge therefore provides the opportunity for boosting contributions to science from citizens through a variety of challenges.<\/p>\n<\/a>What is the NASA International Space Apps Challenge ?<\/h3>\n
What does a community lead do?<\/h3>\n
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