The Dhaka Times Desk For the third time, Bangladesh won the title of world champion of NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022 by defeating 5327 teams from 162 countries of the world.
The world champion in the "Most Inspirational" category is Team Diamonds, a team from Comilla, Bangladesh nominated by NASA as champions.
Team Diamonds' project “Diamond in the Sky” is an interactive game-based space learning material specially designed for children aged 10 to 12 years. It enables children to learn more about stellar variability and discover how the night sky moves. Playing this game will help kids recognize a star's pattern and learn about its color as well as its brightness.
Team members say the purpose of our games is to give children an opportunity to understand why the twinkling stars, the slow changes in the night sky, occur. It is our belief that our app will give children a new set of eyes to see things unseen.
Basis President Russell T Ahmed said about this achievement, Smart Bangladesh is being built mainly by the hands of our youth. Daffodil International University and North South University combined Team Diamonds, made up of youth, won the World Champion title which is undoubtedly a big achievement for us. As a result of this, the Bangladesh team has become the world champion for the third time and for the last two consecutive years. We at Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) continue our journey to build a smart Bangladesh, this achievement can be said to be another big milestone in our efforts. I congratulate Team Diamonds and Basis. This achievement is another unique example of the progress of Smart Bangladesh.
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022 Bangladesh Phase Convenor and Basis Director Tanveer Hossain Khan said that on November 17, 2022, NASA published a list of 35 global finalist teams on the main website of Space Apps Challenge 2022. As the only Bangladeshi team, "Team Diamonds" made it to that list and after all the judging process, today we are the world champions again. This achievement in the month of victory is the whole of Bangladesh. Thanks to all concerned behind this achievement through tireless work.
Tisha Khandkar, team leader of Team Diamonds said, "Thanks to the great creator, today we have been able to present Bangladesh as a winner to the world. There can be nothing more glorious for people than to present their country in the world court. The students of Bangladesh are really
Innovative has been proved once again through us.
More than 500 projects from Bangladesh were submitted in the international competition of NASA Space Apps Challenge organized in collaboration with BASIS and BASIS Students Forum. 120 project representatives participated in a 48-hour long hackathon after screening after rejecting incomplete projects and the best 18 projects were selected from Bangladesh for NASA. The competition was held in 9 cities of Bangladesh (Dhaka, Chittagong Sylhet, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Mymensingh and Comilla).
Result Details: https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/awards/
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