Space Apps: Bangladeshi team wins Nasa contest

[Black_cats]

12:00 AM, February 18, 2019 / LAST MODIFIED: 12:02 AM, February 18, 2019
Space Apps: Bangladeshi team wins Nasa contest

https://www.thedailystar.net/countr...t-wins-nasa-space-apps-challenge-2018-1703422

Team Olik from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet being felicitated. Photo: Muhammad Zahidul Islam

Team Olik from Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet being felicitated. Photo: Muhammad Zahidul Islam

Staff Correspondent

A virtual reality (VR) project developed by four students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) has won NASA's Space Apps Challenge, a global competition.

Using this mobile VR application, called “Lunar VR”, anyone can experience landing on moon on Apollo-11 and walk around the satellite.


Team Olik, the winning team, used a 3D model and data from NASA resources to create the virtual demonstration. NASA also gave them some challenges to solve, said Abu Sabiq Mahdi, the team leader.

“I cannot express my feelings of winning this kind of global award and now we will get opportunities to meet the best space scientist in NASA and can experience the launching of satellites directly,” said Mahdi, a student of the geography and environment department of SUST.

The other three members of the team were Kazi Mainul Islam and Sabbir Hasan from the same department and SM Rafee Adnan from the physics department.

The team's moderator Bishwapriyo Chakrabarty, assistant professor of Computer Science and Engineering department of SUST, will also accompany the team during the NASA visit.

Team Olik beat 1,395 teams from around the world.

The announcement was made on Saturday via an email sent to the winners. The team has been asked to visit the aeronautics and space science research center of NASA soon, Mahdi added.

Earlier in the selection round, Team Olik made it to the top four along with teams from California, Kuala Lumpur and Yamaguchi in Japan on December 8.

Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), under the initiative of BASIS students' forum, has been organising teams from Bangladesh for the NASA Space Apps Challenge every year.

For this year, the BASIS had chosen eight teams to submit their projects to NASA, after a massive competition across the country where they selected the top 40 from 2000 projects.

Telecom and ICT minister Mustafa Jabbar and ICT state minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak have congratulated the winning team.

Jabbar said digital Bangladesh was developing by holding the hands of the country's youth.

“This young team has made us proud,” said Jabbar, also a former president of BASIS.

 

[Bilal9]

Well another accolade for SUST!

First the cancer detection method now this.

Bravo!!

 

[Gandh brandi]

What's the point of the app again? Meh. At least they're winning something. But not everything has to be noteworthy to be published in a national daily. Slow mews day I guess.

 

[Black_cats]

What's the point of the app again? Meh. At least they're winning something. But not everything has to be noteworthy to be published in a national daily. Slow mews day I guess.

Read the following part and tell me is it still not news worthy

“Team Olik beat 1,395 teams from around the world.

The announcement was made on Saturday via an email sent to the winners. The team has been asked to visit the aeronautics and space science research center of NASA soon, Mahdi added.

Earlier in the selection round, Team Olik made it to the top four along with teams from California, Kuala Lumpur and Yamaguchi in Japan on December 8.”

 

[Michael Corleone]

What's the point of the app again? Meh. At least they're winning something. But not everything has to be noteworthy to be published in a national daily. Slow mews day I guess.

You do something better tough guy

 

[Gandh brandi]

You do something better tough guy

If you know the significance of this app then enlighten me. Cause all I see is

1) They acquired the resources from NASA (all the audio and video and such)
2) They then made a VR app that showcase those resources in VR format.
3) NASA liked it so much that they gave them first prize.

I'm all for BD best and such but what's the difference between this and say PrawnHub hosts a competition where some people acquire the resources (prawn) from PrawnHub and make a VR app showcasing that prawn in VR.

otoh cancer detection method posted by bilal9 is more significant methinks. Or the them solving the problems NASA gave them to solve. But sure VR apollo landing and moonwalking takes the cake.

otoh cancer detection method posted by bilal9 is more significant methinks. Or the them solving the problems NASA gave them to solve. But sure VR apollo landing and moonwalking takes the cake.

 

[Michael Corleone]

If you know the significance of this app then enlighten me. Cause all I see is

1) They acquired the resources from NASA (all the audio and video and such)
2) They then made a VR app that showcase those resources in VR format.
3) NASA liked it so much that they gave them first prize.

I'm all for BD best and such but what's the difference between this and say PrawnHub hosts a competition where some people acquire the resources (prawn) from PrawnHub and make a VR app showcasing that prawn in VR.

otoh cancer detection method posted by bilal9 is more significant methinks. Or the them solving the problems NASA gave them to solve. But sure VR apollo landing and moonwalking takes the cake.

otoh cancer detection method posted by bilal9 is more significant methinks. Or the them solving the problems NASA gave them to solve. But sure VR apollo landing and moonwalking takes the cake.

it's not about research and development much but rather shows that skills set required to compile codes to build an app is now present in bd.... makes international app development house interested to outsource their work from countries like bangladesh then... 20 years back... these kind of skills was not as prelevant in bangladesh as much as in india....

 

[Nilgiri]

it's not about research and development much but rather shows that skills set required to compile codes to build an app is now present in bd.... makes international app development house interested to outsource their work from countries like bangladesh then... 20 years back... these kind of skills was not as prelevant in bangladesh as much as in india....

Not really. Your govt sucks and your IT "companies" suck more. Winning random contests isn't going to change the larger capacity team work needed that BD people just seem to be incapable of.

No one is all that interested in anything...and the numbers will prove it in the end, just like they have already done so with pharma and "Walton" and whatever else....after all the chest thumping threads from earlier.