Longtail’s Chris Andrawes & Ben Derham and Maurice Melchers reach top 5 worldwide at NASA
May 17 2016, 10:33 am | | 3 Comments
Chris Andrawes, Ben Derham and Maurice Melchers NASA project, which previously won the Perth leg of a worldwide 48hr Hackathon to solve NASA’s most challenging problems has reached the top 5 in the world in it’s category.
Worldwide over 15,000 contestants, worked on thousands of projects culminating in the final round being judged by a panel of NASA executives.
In the final round Andrawes, Derham and Melchers project will be competing with a Canadian entry called “Kid on the Moon”, a Vietnamese entry “LunARis”, Nigerian entry “Vergee App” and another Australian entry called “SpaceTrek – Open source VR game”.
The winners will be announced next week.
Andrawes, Derham and Melchers’ presentation for NASA can be seen here.
3 Comments
This is awesome stuff! Good job guys.
Well played fellas, well played.
Great news, fingers crossed you kick the ultimate goal but if not, to have made it this far is an amazing effort.