Toronto
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Location: Ontario Science Centre
Date: April 11 - 13
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Projects Nominated for Global Judging
Best Mission Concept
Belt It Out
Best Use of Data
SkyWatch
People's choice
Curious Bot
Projects Receiving Local Awards
Ontario Science Centre Multimedia Display - Enterprise SSB
Honourable Mention: Impact - Weather Mesh
Honourable Mention: Product - Insight
Honourable Mention: Sustainability - Earthy
Honourable Mention: Presentation - Astro
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The following projects were worked on at Toronto:
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Belt It Out
Project Members from this locationTeachables
We wanted to make a project that could easily be used in a class room or at home to teach children 8+ about mining asteroids for resources and using those resources to further exploration or sent back to Earth for use here. We used the 3-different classes of asteroids to d... Visit Project
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ieyt
Project Members from this locationsee what is the world. how its looks like. find the earth map according to COSMOS and COSMIC calendar. identify where we are in and find what is the universe.
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Oculus Spectaculous
Project Members from this locationAn immersive application for the Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headset that allows the user to pilot 1 of 4 satellites orbiting Earth, including the International Space Station. Users can switch between satellites at any point in their orbits, adjust orbiting speed, and take in the cinematic vie... Visit Project
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Earthy
Project Members from this locationWe aim to educate players in a fun and interactive way and to showcase the beauty of satellite images.
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Dioresta
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Weather Mesh
Project Members from this locationFor our team it was important to build simply and cheaply. It is also important for it to be built on open-source software, so it's accessible to a wide age range and income level.
It was also important to represent the data that was easily accessible and interactive for the general pu... Visit Project
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Astro
Project Members from this location"Astro" is a space travel sharing platform that connects Voyageurs and Voyeurs. Astro is: 1. Democratic: enables everyone, regardless of status, to interact with and be inspired by space travellers in real-time 2. Seamless: it leverages connected devices, sensors and cams to make sharing easy... Visit Project
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Enterprise SSB
Project Members from this locationWe aim to build a safety feature for space suits to help astronauts (especially inexperienced ones) to recover from an out of control spiral from the international space station.
Through wearable technology, we can record the instinctive balancing gestures and translate them into the ap... Visit Project
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AstroMap
Project Members from this locationThe core mission of AstroMap is to essentially create a photo-sharing platform where information is crowd-sourced from people all over the world. Through creating a back-end that feeds the coordinate data of moving objects in space, along with pictures from NASA and users, we can create a trac... Visit Project
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Green Mars: Don't Burn our Food!
Project Members from this locationGreen Mars at the 2013 Toronto Space App developed a conceptual model of a greenhouse for the martian surface. However, having large amounts of organic matter, many electronic and mechanical components, and an oxygen rich atmosphere generates a very likely risk of a smouldering fire. A smoulde... Visit Project
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BurningSat
Project Members from this locationSmouldering fires in space are understudied and extremely dangerous. 1 in 10 space shuttle missions have had charred wire incidents which could have easily lead to a smouldering fires. These fires are especially lethal due to the gasses released, and can often go undetected for long periods of... Visit Project
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SkyWatch
Project Members from this locationSkyWatch is a visual representation of data produced by observatories on and around the world. When transient phenomena are discovered by one of these telescopes, raw telemetric data about the event is quickly sent and collected by the NASA Gamma-ray Coordinates Network (GCN). In real-time, GC... Visit Project
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Insight
Project Members from this locationImagine yourself choosing your vacation destination to be space. It’s a pretty big concept that is quickly becoming feasible. We have already had civilians go to space, sent a tweet from space, and even filmed a music video in the ISS. You too will have those opportunities in the near future. ... Visit Project
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Curious Bot
Project Members from this locationThe Universe: Our project is aimed at building low-cost rovers for exploration of rocky moons, exoplanets and asteroids to gather as much data as possible from them. The purpose is to send thousands of these Curious Bots into our solar system and beyond. The data gathered will help us learn mo... Visit Project
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