The team, which consists of Konstantinos Aristodimou, Mario Iakovou, George Evangelou and Panagiotis Theodorou, impressed the NASA judges with their work on mapping seismic activity on the Moon.
The President of the Cyprus Space Exploration Organization (CSEO) George Danos told CNA that the organization is thrilled that once again our young people are shining and making our country proud.
We got the first prize again and let me remind you how many times we have received a NASA award in the past. Our team has done a project mapping earthquakes on the surface of the moon he said.
He congratulated the team on their success and said they will soon have news about their trip to Cape Canaveral in Florida where they will watch the rocket launch.
It should be noted that the competition has been brought to Cyprus for years by the Cyprus Space Exploration Organization (CSEO).This is not the first time that Cypriot teams have been selected by NASA for the first global prize for their original and unique ideas.
The NASA Space Apps Challenge is a two-day competition held every year in more than 200 cities worldwide and its main objective is to develop services and technologies related to both space exploration and the use of existing technologies, services and data from satellite systems. Data visualisation, the use of robotics, the design of objects or even the invention of a smart idea are some of them.
The competition offers everyone the opportunity to help solve problems such as the effects of global warming, communication technologies, marine plastic, resource-efficient firefighting and long-term data storage. Challenges this year included designing a platform to help protect the Earth from the devastating effects of solar storms and mapping earthquakes on the moon.
The teams that took part in the local competition in Cyprus a few weeks ago presented their work to the judges and then the jury gave the green light to one team to represent our country in the international part of the competition where the judges from the NASA committee gave it the first prize worldwide.
CNA was the communication sponsor of the competition in Cyprus.
Source: CNA
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