For the 5th time NASA Space Apps Challenge 2019 organised by BASIS along with BASIS Student’s Forum started in the capital.
This year more than 4000 participants have submitted their project. Out of them Top 45 teams are selected for the Hack-a-Thon. Top 40 teams will fight in 36 hours long Hack-a-Thon on 19-20th October.
At the opening ceremony, convener of NASA Space Apps Challenge Didarul Alam said, “Last year, we received more than 2000 projects from six cluster categories. Among them 40 teams were invited to participate at 48 hours global Hack-a-Thon”.
“It’s been great honor for us that, “Team Olik” from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology became the World Champion at Best Use of Data Category. Team Olik has been invited again at NASA Global Champion’s Ceremony again this year. We have sorted Top 45 projects out of 4000 projects. We are hopeful to do better this time,” he added. This year, NASA has organized this event in 273 Cities Globally. From Bangladesh 9 Cities (Dhaka, Sylhet, Chittagong, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Khulna, Barisal and Comilla) have participated in this Global Hack-a-Thon.
This year’s campaign involved approximately 1 Core students virtually and approximately 2,00,000 students took part physically in this event.
Adviser of NASA Space Apps Challenge Mohammad Mahdee-uz-Zaman said, this year NASA has announced five challenge categories comprising 21 sub categories. Besides, our young and talented scientists will work on categories like weather, moon, planets near and far and many more. Bangladesh is constantly making progress for the past 5 years, we are hopeful that Bangladesh’s flag will be uploaded much higher this year.
The Partner of NASA Space Apps Challenge 2019-Bangladesh is Skill Development for Mobile Game and Application Project under ICT Division, Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh. The Gold Sponsor of this event is Evaly and Internet Partner is Aamra Networks Limited.
