NASA International Space Apps Challenge Boston 2025 Summary

We are thrilled to announce the successful completion of the NASA International Space Apps Challenge Boston 2025! This marked our 12th year hosting this global hackathon, and we returned to a virtual format on October 4-5. The online setting allowed us to welcome 108 registered participants from the Greater Boston area and beyond, resulting in 13 teams successfully completing and presenting their projects. We were once again honored to have the event officiated by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.

Each team brought their unique style, technical skills, and creative energy to address some of the most pressing real-world challenges posed by NASA. This year’s solutions ranged from data-driven drought prediction tools and planetary tourism gamification to 3D terraform mapping and innovative devices that transform cosmic data into musical experiences. Participants leveraged NASA’s open data archives, hardware platforms like RaspberryPi, and various APIs to build and visualize their creative solutions.

Following each pitch was a judging Q&A session by our four esteemed judges. Team Exoplaneteers won First Place and advance as Global Nominees.

We would also like to congratulate our second place Global Nominees, Team Canes. We were also pleased to award Team FutureScape Navigators with both the Amazon AWS Award and an Honorable Mention for their outstanding work. We were impressed by all the teams creative presentations and loved to see all the innovative thinking throughout the hackathon.

Finally, we’d like to thank our great judges, the Consulate General of Japan in Boston and our sponsors who supported us hosting ISAC Boston 2025 successfully.

We hope all participants and everyone involved enjoyed this exciting two-day journey with us, and we look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

1st Place [Global Nominee] – Exoplaneteers
2nd Place [Global Nominee] – Canes
Amazon AWS Award – FutureScape Navigators
Honorable Mention – FutureScape Navigators

Dr. Christopher E. Carr, Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Kenta Tsuchiya, Deputy Director of JAXA Washington D.C. Office

Mirza Samnani, Robotics Engineer at NASA JPL

Sameer Kenkare, Leads the Corporate VC and Innovation group at AWS Startups

Mr. Seiichiro Takahashi, Consul General of Japan in Boston

Dr. Christopher E. Carr, Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology

AWS Startups
Toyota
Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)
Supported by: Consulate-General of Japan in Boston (在ボストン日本国総領事館)