For the first time NASA Space Apps Challenge - Bangladesh has won the title of World Champion of 2018.
The team nominated by the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, team teamed up with 395 teams from around the world. This information was given in the press release sent by BASIS.
The Lunar Vor Project, which provides the Moon experience by sitting in the house. Team Okik earned the title of World Champion for this project. This lunar project is a Virtual Reality app by Team Unicer. Through which users will get an experience in the moon travel. NASA has collected 3D models and information from various resources, NASA's Apollo 11 missions travel to the landing area, to see the solar eclipse from the moon, and to move the moon through a satellite, these three different models have been created virtually by Team Unicel.
They got the title of World Champion in the Best Use of Data category, losing to California, Kuala Lumpur, and Japan in the top four.
Earlier, on December 8 last year, in the initial results, competing with nearly 2,772 teams of 79 countries in the world came to top four of the NASA Space Apps Challenge.
Nasa Space Apps Challenge - State Minister for Information and Communication Technology, Junaid Ahmed Palak, Managing Director (Secretary) Hosne Ara Begum, MP and Managing Director of Bangladesh High-Tech Park Authority, expressed their gratitude to Bangladesh's unprecedented success in the year 2016, postal, telecommunications and information technology minister Mustafa Jabbar.
Minister Mustafa Jabbar expressed his excitement, 'Digital Bangladesh is being built by our young people. The team of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, a young man, has won Team Uni-world championship title. Bangladesh is organizing this competition through BASIS, BASIS Student's Forum. In this series, the team of Bangladesh has been a world champion. I congratulate Team Olak and BASIS. This achievement is another unique example of the progress of digital Bangladesh.
About this achievement, BASIS President Syed Almas Kabir said, 'Our goal this year was to do better than the last three years. For the first time, NASA's Space Apps Challenge's world championship achievement is undoubtedly a big achievement. We have continued the journey from BASIS to Digital Bangladesh, this achievement is another big milestone in our efforts. I congratulate team alike for making the world's name more prominent in the world. '
Didarul Alam, convener of the NASA Space Apps Challenge-2015, said, 'We have become a world champion. This is the achievement of the whole of Bangladesh. The name of the team is bright. All concerned, especially BASIS President Syed Almas Kabir, Joint Convener Ariful Hasan Apu, Chief Judge (Bangladesh) Mahdi-Uz-Zaman and Project Coordinator for the untiring work. I would like to thank Wasake Sajjad. '
Team alike leader Abu Sabik Mahdi said, 'Being the world champion in the NASA Space Apps Challenge for the first time, I am grateful to our moderator Shahjalal University of Science and Technology's Assistant Professor of the Department of Science and University Bisapriya Chakraborty. Now we expect many expectations of every Bangladeshi. We want to make Bangladesh higher. '
On behalf of BASIS Students' Forum, with the help of the Bangladesh High-Tech Park Authority, Nasa Space Apps Challenge has selected the best 40 projects NASA has selected from two thousand projects in the international competition. It is organized in nine cities of Bangladesh (Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Barisal, Rangpur, Mymensingh, and Comilla).
Six champions of six categories will get the chance to go to Nasa and work as an apprentice for some time.