A extremely cool free hackathon utilizing house tech to deal with local weather change is developing in Canberra

A hackathon providing as much as $10,000 for a startup concepts that deal with local weather change by way of house shall be held in Canberra subsequent month.

SpaceHack, on June 16-17, is a collaboration between the Canberra Innovation Community (CBRIN) and UNSW Canberra. Individuals may have 30 hours over the 2 days to collaborate and compete for money prizes as they develop concepts clear up the massive problems with local weather change utilizing house know-how earlier than pitching them to a judging panel.

A workforce of skilled mentors shall be readily available for steering and help, together with Dr Andrew Sutton, a former laser specialist for NASA, Courtney Vibrant, an area methods engineer at CSIRO, and Arvind Ramana, director of house know-how on the Australian House Company.

CBRIN CEO Petr Adamek mentioned representatives from main house firms will participate too, amid brief workshops to assist individuals generate, evolve and pitch concepts to win the vote of the judges.

“SpaceHack offers up-and-coming house innovators, together with researchers and college college students, with a possibility to sharpen their innovation abilities, construct their networks, and offers entry to unimaginable mentors and trade sources,” he mentioned.

UNSW Canberra Dean  Professor Emma Sparks mentioned SpaceHack may very well be basic to addressing the challenges of local weather change.

“I’m excited to see what individuals provide you with. I’m proud that lecturers from UNSW in addition to trade specialists shall be readily available to offer steering and mentoring to individuals to work in direction of concepts to create a greater future for Australia and the world,” she mentioned.

Everybody concerned within the free hackathon may have the chance to work intently with trade, educational and enterprise specialists to create impactful pitches of their space-themed concepts to deal with local weather change for the prospect to win as much as $10,000 in money.

This hackathon is open to everybody and Adamek mentioned they’re eager for anybody with an curiosity in house, local weather motion, innovation and know-how to participate.