The Faculty of Information Technology achieved third place in the NASA Space Apps Challenge Competition, which was held at Al-Hussein Technical University on Saturday and Sunday October 5^th and 6^th, 2024.

The Faculty was represented in the competition by student Lian Ayman Al-Disi from the Department of Software Engineering and student Rama Al-Amoudi from the Department of Artificial Intelligence.

The competition is considered a global hackathon organized annually by the American space agency NASA, and aims to attract innovators from all over the world to solve real-life challenges related to space and earth sciences.

The challenges presented by NASA Space Apps vary to include areas such as the environment, climate, space exploration, and geographic information, and target students, scientists, engineers, programmers, designers, and artists, and require teams to develop prototypes of their ideas using tools and data provided by NASA.

48  teams representing all local universities, whether governmental or private, participated in this competition.

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hassan, Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, indicated that the Faculty students are distinguished in the ideas and projects they participate in local and Arab competitions, extending his thanks to the university’s administration for its unlimited support for student activities in the Faculty of Information Technology.

He explained that the project submitted by the faculty students includes creating a website that aims to facilitate understanding the data received from the OCI satellite, which is part of the PACE mission launched in February 2024, to solve the problem of difficulty in understanding this data inside classrooms and the difficulty of explaining it by teachers, using the SeaDAS tool to analyze some of the satellite data. A prototype of a distinctive website was designed that displays this data in a simplified manner with a comprehensive explanation of the mission, and includes interactive elements and educational games from NASA.

Users can download an application for the website that allows them to follow the satellite news, view the images received from it, and browse short educational videos (Reels).