The United States government has sponsored a visit to Kennedy Space Center of the Filipino team that won the 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge in the “Best Galactic Impact” category.
In a statement, the US Embassy in the Philippines said the Filipino Team iNON visited the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from July 22 to 24, 2019 and presented their winning app to a panel of National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials and media.
The team created ISDApp as a mobile platform that enables local government officials to provide fisherfolk with information about real-time weather and sea conditions.
The three-day program, which coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, opened with presentations by 2018 Space Apps Challenge winners from around the world. A tour of the Space Center followed. While at the Kennedy Space Center, Team iNON also witnessed the July 25launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-18 spacecraft.
Team iNON is composed of Revbrain Martin, Marie Jeddah Legaspi, Julius Czar Torreda, Matthew Concubierta, and Migs de Guzman.
The group triumphed over 1,395 teams worldwide with the app they developed during the October 2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge, which was hosted by the US Embassy in the Philippines in partnership with De La Salle University.