If you would like to propose something in addition to these to start the brainstorming process, please follow the link below to the SHD wiki.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Anne Neale, EnviroAtlas Project Lead

EnviroAtlas is an online resource containing hundreds of geospatial data layers which are all published as web services to make them readily available to external application builders.

John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Allen Brooks, Interactive Content Producer

Forty years ago, we sent a probe into the void. The Voyager satellites have been traveling through and past our solar system carrying two golden records which contain a cultural snapshot of the world in 1977. How do we send a new cultural picture into the stars, do we need a satellite? Do we use some sort of signal? What culture is represented, and how do we curate?

Greg Poljacik, Stuntman-Scientist

Placing sensors on performers to see if and how their emotions are picked up by others (Emotional Contagion). Lets see if we can use science to prove this.

Doug Cooney, Playwright, Author, Professor

Making Modern Monsters – Connecting Frankenstein’s monsters to contemporary science and arts learning. What is an authentic way to teach about Artificial Intelligence and the possibilities and dangers therein, to a high school audience? What is a legitimate science experiment about galvanism that can be reproduced inexpensively and consistently?

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

David Lagomasino, Biospheric Sciences Lab

Forest Monitoring and detecting on the ground land-use change. Design a platform to capture citizen science data on land-use.

Environmental Law Institute

Talia Fox, Research Associate

Methane hunting, how can we use sensors and citizens to track down rogue methane gas?

The U.S. State Department, Secretary's Office of Global Partnerships

Thomas Debass, Deputy Special Representative

Coding for Fish - With 50% of the fish caught for human consumption coming from small-scale and artisanal fisheries around the world, the livelihoods of these fishers are crucial for their communities. To address these fishery management challenges, we need to find innovative ways to collect data and use it to find solutions—through the second annual Fishackathon, happening June 5-7.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Elizabeth Tuck, Genetics and Education Fellow

DIYbio hacking, what is it? What can you do with it? And where is the data?

James Tyrwhitt-Drake, Graphics Design & Visualization Expert

NIH 3D Print Exchange - Discover, create, share, engage and learn

US Geological Survey (USGS)

Sophia Liu, Mendenhall Postdoc Fellow

Visualizing the hydraulic fracturing lifecycle, lifecycle of critical materials and toxic contamination after hurricane Sandy

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Abdulkader Sinno, Wilson Center Fellow

UAV Forest Canopy Research - Earth scientists need to be able to collect samples of leaves from the top of trees in the forests to accurately monitor and understand how forests purify our air. Can we develop a cost-effective and efficient method to help them do so?

Inter-American Development Bank

Alyson Williams, Knowledge and Learning Specialist

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently launched its Open Data Portal called“Numbers for Development” which allows you to explore, visualize and reuse the Bank’s data on social and economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean. “Numbers for Development” compiles over 1700 multi-sectorial indicators from 26 countries in the region into one single place. This data has been collected by the Bank for over 50 years. The new portal includes data on many different topics, including macroeconomics, social inclusion and global integration. In addition, there are over 30 IDB specialized datasets and open visualizations available to view and download.