{"id":433,"date":"2025-10-15T09:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2025-10-15T09:49:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:49:27","slug":"jury-member-at-the-nasa-space-apps-hackathon-in-ashgabat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/jury-member-at-the-nasa-space-apps-hackathon-in-ashgabat\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Member at the NASA Space Apps Hackathon in Ashgabat!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On <strong>October 4th<\/strong>, I had the honor of being one of the jury members at the <strong>NASA Space Apps Hackathon<\/strong> hosted at <strong>Sanly Bilim Education Center<\/strong> in Ashgabat. \ud83c\udf0d\u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had <strong>13 amazing teams<\/strong> competing \u2014 and wow, these young innovators absolutely blew me away! \ud83e\udd2f From apps predicting shark dangers in ocean areas \ud83e\udd88, to asteroid protection systems \u2604\ufe0f, climate-saving platforms \ud83c\udf31, and even tools for preserving our planet\u2019s icebergs \u2744\ufe0f \u2014 every project showed real creativity and purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What impressed me the most was how well these students could <strong>code<\/strong> \ud83d\udcbb. Some of the projects had fully functional mobile and web apps \u2014 built by teenagers! Their understanding of programming, logic, and implementation was seriously next level. \ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a jury member, I focused on their <strong>code quality and technical understanding<\/strong>, and honestly, I was <strong>positively surprised<\/strong> at their skill and passion. \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huge shoutout to all the teams \u2014 your dedication gives me real hope for the future of tech and innovation. \ud83c\udf1f Keep building, keep dreaming! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-432\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"431\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-431\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" data-id=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686562.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-430\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" data-id=\"429\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686560.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-429\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"854\" data-id=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686558.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-428\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1279\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686557.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-427\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-id=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/5434059440161686556.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-426\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 4th, I had the honor of being one of the jury members at the NASA Space Apps Hackathon hosted at Sanly Bilim Education Center in Ashgabat. \ud83c\udf0d\u2728 We had 13 amazing teams competing \u2014 and wow, these young innovators absolutely blew me away! \ud83e\udd2f From apps predicting shark dangers in ocean areas \ud83e\udd88, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":435,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilyasseisov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}