00:00On October 5th, 2024, Space.com, TechRadar, and the U.S. Space Force held a competition where the future of tech is put to the ultimate test.
00:10We bring you Code and Construct.
00:13For the last 25 years, we've had pretty much one mission, which is to bring space down to Earth for everyone else to enjoy.
00:20This event in particular really is geared at practicing the systems that you would need to control space communications,
00:26satellite communications, secure communications as well, which is going to become more important.
00:30So the hackathon portion of this competition is going to be in this room.
00:34On the other side of the conference hall is the PC building competition.
00:37The judges are myself, John Loeffler from TechRadar, Sergeant Arrett, and Captain Elson Raleigh.
00:44My other two co-developers, Justin and Andrew.
00:47In events like this, you have people who, by nature, they're curious.
00:51You don't become a hacker because you follow a script.
00:56You can prod and figure out how things work, why things work, where the holes are, what can you exploit.
01:00Not necessarily to a negative end, you're just curious.
01:04Cyber doesn't exist without space, and space doesn't exist without cyber.
01:09I believe that the next war will begin and be fought primarily in cyberspace.
01:14In the hackathon, coders were tasked with developing a secure and resilient satellite communication system.
01:19The start of this, it came down to it being about what do we want to see in a hackathon that relates to the Space Force.
01:28For that, the idea of satellite data came to us.
01:31That, we figured, was going to be the easiest for students to understand the complexity of it.
01:35So, we integrated satellite data into APIs to make them interact with students in whatever way possible, whether it's them build a web app, an iPhone app, stuff like that.
01:45In the PC build race, teams of two build gaming PCs using only provided parts.
01:51We have two teams of two competitors who are going to be taking place in a PC build competition.
01:55They're going to build one of these Corsair build kit computers, complete with all components, make sure the build is nice and clean.
02:01They will be judged both on their build presentation as well as completeness.
02:04There's a GeForce RTX 4060 in an i5 Intel Core processor.
02:09Bunch of pieces to put into these builds, but after we finish the competition for how quickly and how cleanly they can build these PCs,
02:15we're going to move over to the Minecraft component where we're going to construct some houses inside the game.
02:20Both teams will have to face the judges' critique in the end to figure out who ultimately wins the PC build race competition.
02:26These are the final seconds.
02:28Every move counts.
02:30And the winner is crowned!
02:32Two teams stand above the rest as Code & Construct champions.
02:37Without events like this, students today may not know just how flexible and how tailored a future they could find in whatever industry they want.
02:47Code & Construct, where tech meets competition.
02:52Stay tuned for more from TechRadar Gaming and Space.com.
02:56Sponsored by the U.S. Space Force.
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