The world's largest hackathon is back! 2025 is the 12th anniversary that NASA ISAC is held in Boston!
This year’s theme: The Sun Touches Everything - Celebrating the Influence of the Sun. Mark your calendars for October 4th and 5th, 2025, and join us in exploring the Sun’s vast influence on our lives. International Space Apps Challenge (ISAC) is the largest hackathon in the world. It is commissioned by NASA to get citizens to collaborate on its mission directives. NASA ISAC 2025 Boston will be entirely virtual this year and will take place on October 4th, 10:00 am (ET)- October 5th, 5 pm (ET).
Why Join?
Each year, participants are challenged with finding real-world solutions to today’s biggest challenges. The hackathon collaborates with leading Space Agencies globally. In 2024, using open data from NASA and partner Space Agencies, participants tackled 20 challenges and produced 9,996 projects addressing Earth and Space Problems.
- Connect with a Global Community: The Boston chapter takes pride in collaborating closely with the Consulate General of Japan in Boston since 2014.
- Tackle Real-World Problems: With open data from NASA and its Space Agency partners, dive in with creativity and an open mindset to develop new solutions that might be used by companies and space agencies in the future.
- Challenge Yourself, Grow with a Team: Collaborate with fellow participants, team up with others, and get guidance from experts. Even if you’ve never joined a hackathon or you’re not a coding wizard, be sure to sign up. Everyone’s welcome!
If you’re passionate about problem-solving, your place is here.
Sign Up for the Event of the Year!
Our dynamic Local Lead and dedicated team of Binnovative are committed to a great virtual experience. No matter where you join from, you’ll experience a seamless, engaging event.
Our goal is to empower your curiosity and harness the power of your ideas. Join a diverse community that values learning from one another.
About NASA ISAC
The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaborative hackathon focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions to address global needs applicable to both life on Earth and life in space. NASA is leading this global collaboration along with a number of additional government collaborators and 100+ local partner organizations. Space Apps is a NASA incubator innovation program.
This year's NASA ISAC Boston hackathon is a virtual event. Each local virtual event will be hosted by one of our Space Apps Local Leads -- event leaders who will help connect registrants from their local communities to each other and to NASA.
About International Space Apps Challenge Boston
2025 is the 12th time that NASA ISAC is held in Boston. To participate in this virtual event, you can form your own teams among your friends. Please make sure that all of your team members register. The event provides an opportunity for everyone to improve your coding skills, get involved in Boston’s hackathon community, cultivate team collaboration skills, and… have a blast with your teammates!!
In order for you to remember this hackathon, we will provide a special ISAC Boston original memento for all participants who successfully submit a solution to the ISAC Boston event and have a shipping address in the conterminous United States. The team is hard at work designing this memento for you.
NASA ISAC Boston is organized by: Binnovative.org
