In a small classroom at North High School, five students who call themselves Team FrostByte have been spending most of their free time for the last two months developing an app to visualize mission planning for an expedition to the moon. The result will be a complex entry into the national NASA App Development Challenge.

“It was very intimidating for all of us initially, but going through it we realize these things are possible,” said team member and North junior Champ-Pacifique Mukiza.

The challenge requires teams to examine the South Pole region of the moon, use lunar terrain data, and display information for an astronaut’s navigation and communication.

Mukiza and his teammates — North juniors Sujal Pokhrel and Jefrey Allen, Virtual Campus junior Moss Louvan, and North sophomore Romas Pokhrel are the only Iowans to create a submission for NASA’s challenge.

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