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##Welcome To The Hack The Universe Challenges wiki!

• Challenges
• Hackathon Project Repositories
• Online Resources And Data Sets
• Schedule of Events
• Code of Conduct

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Held on November 8th to 9th, 2014 at the American Museum of Natural History, the Hack The Universe challenge was a 24 hour solution-building event produced by AMNH's BridgeUp: STEM, an educational initiative focused on the intersection of computer science and science with an after-school program for high school girls and underrepresented middle schoolers and the awarding of annual fellowships to women scientists to pursue their research at the museum.

The participants of Hack The Universe posing beneath the Hayden Planetarium

29 project teams built 29 working prototypes, working with the museum's Digital Universe dataset to create new visualizations, helping to advance astronomy and astrophysics and working for the benefit of museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural institutions around the world (OpenGLAM). Video demonstrations of their projects are available to view on YouTube!

We hope that this challenge wiki will act as a touchstone for other institutions and serve as a guiding vision for the future of astronomy, astrophysics, and of museums. Within this wiki's pages you will find descriptions of challenges the Department of Astrophysics faces, as well as links to the open source solutions that were created by participants. Just check out each of the challenges for more detail!