We are a team of 6 students who participated in the 2024 NASA Space Apps Challenge:

• Banri Ouchi
• Yuma Karube
• Hiroki Kudara
• Shun Nagata
• Hanna Suzuki
• Rei Nagata

NASA Space Apps Challenge is an annual hackathon event (or an innovation incubation and civic engagement program) where NASA puts out about 20 challenges for participants around the world to develop innovative solutions.

We participated in the Boston division of Space Apps and won the 1st place and Kintone API Award there! We were nominated to the global judging.

Our team worked on the Community Mapping challenge. We worked on the impacts of climate change on heat-related illness, bird conservation, drought and farming.

• Official team web page at SpaceAppsChallenge.org
• 7-page project summary for global judging
• Oral Presentation slides at Boston local judging
• Code
  • Mapping Heat Risk for Outdoor Athletes
  • Estimating Heat Risk
  • Making Heat Risk Maps Audible
  • Bird Conservation
  • Mapping and Analyzing Climates in WA,
  • climappers-wa-drought-hythergraph
  • Farming

The CliMappers is a team of six high school students. We have diverse interests and passions, but we do share common concerns: climate and climate change. We also share common technology skills such as Python coding, IoT development, data mapping, and cloud storage. Therefore, we tackle climate issues and empower our respective communities through four focused studies:

(1) Heat-related illness: Mapping heat risk for outdoor athletes, estimating heat risk, and making heat risk maps audible.

(2) Bird conservation: Mapping bird observations in a smart mirror, and developing a portable bird activity and environment monitoring system.

(3) Drought: Clustering drought-susceptible cities based on their climatology and geographical characteristics, analyzing climate changes in those cities, and mapping drought severity and climate classification.

(4) Farming: Mapping regional weather information and building an in-situ soil monitoring device for farms to make informed decisions.

Through these collaborative studies, the CliMappers enhances the understanding of climate change impacts on our communities, promoting informed actions and solutions to mitigate these challenges in our own backyard.