We are thrilled to share that KokkoNav, a team from Vaasa, secured the second place at the Czechia’s CASSINI Hackathon. The competition was held 22-24 November simultaneously across multiple locations in Europe, including Prague, Czech Republic, where KokkoNav took part on-site.
This hackathon invites students to collaborate and develop creative technologies and strategies to address the growing challenge of space debris, aiming for a cleaner and safer orbital environment.
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge was held in Vaasa for the seventh time during the autumn weekend of October 5–6, 2024. The global hackathon brought together talents from different fields.
A group of students from Vaasa Lyceum High School (Vaasan lyseon lukio), along with visiting Italian Erasmus+ exchange students, kicked off their entrepreneurship education studies this academic year by participating in a Kvarken Space Startup business camp held on September 3-4, 2024. Read the article in Finnish or Swedish on Mega Magazine: link ➔ The camp was organized…
Hanken Quantum Hackathon, organized by Hanken’s Quantum Lab and Ultrahack in Helsinki from October 24th to 26th, aimed to discover new and innovative solutions on how to use quantum computing in a sustainable manner in the finance industry. A team with participants from the University of Vaasa stood out in the hackathon with their submission…
The winning team VAMK’d at the NASA Space Apps hackathon 2022 in Vaasa. Photo: Jari Ratilainen. The Smallest and the Biggest Team Triumphed in NASA’S International Space Apps Challenge Let’s take a moments and check the local winners of NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge that took place in the beginning of October in Vaasa. It…