Nine champion teams and eight runners up teams from Bangladesh will get the opportunity to participate in a global space apps competition to be organized by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) in 2020.
The names of the teams were declared by President of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) Syed Almas Kabir on Sunday after they were selected through participation in a three-day online competition called “NASA Space Apps Challenge 2020”. The competition, taking place from October 2 to October 4, was held across nine districts, said a press release on Monday.
ICT Division, Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), LICT Project and Cloud Camp were the partners of BASIS for organizing the competition held for the sixth time. 300 teams took part in the competition in 2020.
The champion and runner-up teams are VaccPicker and O-Zone respectively from Barisal division, Orion-vi and Four Frontiers from Chittagong, Prime SpaceX and Flashing_Red from Comilla, BUET Zenith and S21 ARSB/HAM SOS COM from Dhaka, Fly High and Mohakash from Khulna, Legend of legacy and Trojans from Mymensingh, Incognition and Nobbo from Rajshahi, and ShockWave and Flitaxe from Rangpur. The champion team from Sylhet is Siliconlily.
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Addressing a function organized by BASIS online State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak assured of providing all possible help to the students and youths for bringing technologically innovative solutions on various domestic and global problems.
“The talented youths would present the country as a problem solver nation in the future through bringing innovative solutions of various domestic and global problems,” he told the function.
He said the government has been encouraging innovation and formation of startup companies, having funded 130 startups so far.
The students are gradually adapting to frontier technologies as ICT Division has set up labs at the universities including a Robotic Lab in the BUET, Palak said adding the Bangladeshi youths have performed well by securing 2 awards from the six main awards and 12 merit awards by participating first ever international blockchain Olympiad.
The state minister said the implementation of ‘Digital Bangladesh’, the prime minister’s relentless efforts, and the design of the prime minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has kept all activities from food supply to running court online completely normal amidst the pandemic.
The function was addressed among others by Senior Secretary of ICT Division N M Zeaul Alam, Managing Director of Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Authority Hosne Ara Begum, Director General of Digital Security Agency (DSA) and LICT Project Director Md. Rezaul Karim.
