The Dhaka Times Desk Team Voyagers of Bangladesh has become the world champion in the best storytelling category of NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2023. With this, Bangladesh became the world champion three times in a row and for the fourth time in total.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) organized the Bangladesh phase of this competition for the 10th time.
In this year's competition, 57,999 people from 152 countries in 30 categories from 8,715 teams participated on the basis of different age, background, interest and skills. This is the largest NASA Space Apps Challenge to date.
Among the world's total of 5,556 projects, Bangladesh has showcased unparalleled innovation that has created a unique example of Bangladesh's emerging talent in space exploration.
“Everything Starts with Water” is the theme of the project by Team Voyagers of Barendra University, Rajshahi region. There are 370 quintillion gallons of water in the world, but of this, our usable safe water is only 0.01%. Their mission was to create a visual tool to illustrate the entire flow of water on Earth, helping students understand the flow of water in the Earth's system and how this precious resource is contributing to our climate change.
Md. Khalid Saqib is the team leader of world winning team Voyagers. Besides, the other members of the party are Md Abdul Malek, Md Sakhawat Hossain, Mosa Fahmida Akhtar and Md Atiq. Team leader Md Khalid Shakib said, “From participating virtually to becoming the world champion, this journey was not so easy for us. But now each of us is very proud to present the name of our country in the world court, Alhamdulillah. Many thanks and gratitude to the BASIS authorities for always supporting us in such a big achievement."
Tanveer Hossain Khan, Convener of the Bangladesh Phase of the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2023 and Director of BASIS said, “This world victory is a testament to our creativity and technological capabilities. Bangladesh have once again shown that competing at the highest level of the global stage is how to pull off a victory. We are extremely proud of our champions and congratulate them for their hard work.”
Russell T Ahmed, President of BASIS, said, “Our world win in the NASA Space Apps Challenge is yet another testament to the huge strides that Bangladeshis have made in terms of potential and innovation in the IT sector. I warmly congratulate our world winning team and all the advisors, mentors, judges and volunteers associated with it for hoisting the flag of Bangladesh in front of the world for the fourth time in total with this hat-trick win. Advisors for the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2023, Bangladesh phase were Ariful Hasan Apu and Mahdi-uz-Zaman.
Incidentally, the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration-NASA is implementing this program with the aim of finding innovative solutions to solve various global problems of the world by bringing together talented young people from 152 countries of the world, such as technicians, scientists, designers, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, etc. In October of this year BASIS organized the Bangladesh Parv in 9 cities of Bangladesh (Dhaka, Chittagong Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymensingh and Comilla).
It should be noted that in 2018, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology's Team Aleek became the world champion by creating a virtual application that will give the experience of traveling to the moon in the 'Lunar VR Project' Best Use of Data category. Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) and Bangladesh Army University of Engineering and Technology (BOUET) joint team 'Team Saqasan' won the World Champion in the 'Best Mission Concept' category in 2021 and 'Team Diamonds' in the 'Most Inspiring' category in 2022. is the champion.
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