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March 2019
IFIA Mag azine

ABIPIR & IFIA March 2019 IFIA Mag azine

HOLD NASA

SPACE APPS

CHALLENGE

ABIPIR, with the support of the IFIA, held an international al changes of the human being on the planet. hours of creative and innovative
NASA event that took place simultaneously in 212 cities in activities. In the weeks leading
72 countries around the Earth: the Nasa Space Apps Chal- The host committee of the event in Foz do up to the hackathon, 3 technical
lenge, the world’s largest hackathon on October 19-21 at Iguaçu was composed by coordinator Luis events were held to prepare and
the Uniamérica University Center, headquarters of the Latin Poletti (IxDA), Márcia David (Uniamérica), align participants to the challeng-
American Office IFIA, and for the first time in Foz do Iguaçu Adriane Bordin, Fabiano Neumann and Mari- es posed by NASA for this year.
(Paraná – Brazil). angela Lückmann (ABIPIR / IFIA). It is worth Participants, including the orga-
remembering that the organizing commit- nizing committee, mentors and
The event reunited programmers, designers and practitio- tee is a member of the new collective, collab- judges, experienced unforgetta-
ners from different areas of human knowledge, whether orative and voluntary, successful project in ble moments of knowledge shar-
or not they are involved in software development, for an ABIPIR’s “Innovacities Station”, broadcast live ing, networking, teaching and
innovative open source programming marathon. Founded from RCI – Radio Broadcast Iguassu (Monday learning without frontiers. Eight
in 2012 and coming this year in the largest global edition, to Friday) and digital media. teams competed in the first three
the NASA Space Apps Challenge brought themes such as places, already inserted in the
earth monitoring difficulties, climate studies and behavior- At the end, there were 48 uninterrupted NASA website for global awards.

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