The NASA competition awarded prizes to two Brazilian app development teams. One team developed a project to help clean up the oceans, the other a system to identify oil spills.
The Cafeína team, made up of students from the Federal University of Bahia, won in the best use of equipment category. The instrument collects microplastics from the ocean, attracting the particles through an electrostatic current. The Massa team, made up of developers and startup managers, won in the Earth observation applications category. The system they created, dubbed Poseidon, uses satellite imagery, Artificial Intelligence, and neural networks to identify oil spills in the ocean.
