(27 May 2016) The IceCream team consisting of a group of seven young students, five of which from the University La Sapienza in Rome, won the Global Award for the "International Space Apps Challenge 2016" competition, sponsored by NASA, in the Galactic Impact category. The prestigious result will lead the team to present their project at the NASA Space Center at Cape Canaveral. L.I.V.E. Glacier, the name of the IceCream team project, is a system that uses the open source satellite data provided by the European Space Agency and data collected through a crowd-sourcing app to monitor the health of the glaciers. The team, which had won the competition in Rome held at La Sapienza from April 22 to 24, is composed of university students from La Sapienza University: Martina Di Rita, Roberta Ravanelli, Andrea Area Nascetti from the Geodesy and Geomatics of DICeA (Construction and Environmental Civil Engineering Department); Marco Di Tullio, an Environmental and Land Management Engineering student; Fabiana Milza, Astronautical Engineering student; the group also includes Paola Beligheri, PhD student at Luiss University, and Gabriele Mamoli, professional designer. (Red)

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"NASA's International Space Apps Challenge2016” is an international Hackathon which takes place simultaneously in 170 cities of the world, with a total of 1200 participants. In this 48 hour programming marathon the team of developers, designers, science and technology students and enthusiasts choose a challenge from those proposed by NASA to try and create the best open source solutions to global problems relevant for life on Earth or in space.