Space apps contest begins in city

FE Report
A two-day space apps competition, under NASA supervision, started in the city on Friday.
This is the Bangladesh part of the selection process for choosing teams which would get opportunities to submit their proposals for participating in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2015.
A total of 164 participants in 41 groups are competing to devise and develop apps as solutions to problems given by the NASA.
Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (Basis) is hosting the competition.
Ali Llewellyn, one of the founders of the NASA's International Space Apps Challenge, is supervising the apps competition.
He said he is experiencing the best arrangements in Bangladesh and there is a pool of talented engineers in the country.
A Basis source said they selected 164 participants from more than 500 applicants in Dhaka and Chittagong.
He said the given problems to the participants are mainly on earth, outer space technology, human space flights, robotics and asteroids.
There are software developers, engineers, artists and other professionals in the groups.
The two-day programme is also taking place simultaneously in Chittagong.
The Basis source said the International Space Apps Challenges is a two-day hackathon where teams of technologists, scientists, designers, educators, entrepreneurs, developers and students participate and solve different problems.
The participants will design innovative solutions with the publicly available data.
The space apps competition is being supported by Basis Students' Forum, CloudCamp and Mobile Monday.
The hackathon would also be arranged in over a hundred cities across the globe.
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