Team UIU secured seventh place globally, and second place among Asian teams.
UIU Mars Rover from United International University (UIU) and BRACU Mongol-Tori from BRAC University (BRACU) secured the 6th and 8th positions respectively at the University Rover Challenge (URC) 2025 finals.
When she told her family about climbing Everest, someone said, "Isn't that like going to Bandarban?"
A team from Glenrich International School, Uttara has secured first place in the internationally-acclaimed NSS Gerard K O'Neill Space Settlement Contest.
Shomy Hasan Chowdhury, an award-winning WASH Activist and development professional from Bangladesh, has been named to the prestigious World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (YGL) Class of 2025.
These four teams will represent Bangladesh and their respective universities in the URC 2025 finals.
The teams have qualified for the Singapore AUV Challenge 2025 (SAUVC 2025).
A plastic recycling project of a multinational student team, whose three members are from BRAC University, has been awarded the first prize of USD 1,500 at the international pitch competition, “Launch a Different World 2024”.
The team also secured the champion title in the ARC Junior 2024 Exploration Challenge.
Team UIU Astro from United International University (UIU) has ranked 3rd in Asia and 11th globally in the CanSat Competition 2024 organised by the American Astronautical Society.
Team Diamonds from DIU won the NASA Space Apps Challenge 2022 with their project "Diamond in the Sky".
These three teams are among the top 38 competition finalists.
The Bangladeshi team Bored Tunnelers, this year, has emerged as the first ever South Asian team to be among those top teams in the finals.
The Anatolian Rover Challenge (ARC) is an international rover competition for university teams.
Bangladesh ranked 20th among 55 participating countries.
Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Alumnus Md. Wahidul Hasan, a PhD candidate and Research Assistant at the South Dakota Mines, USA, and his team have won the prestigious NASA EPSCoR grant worth USD 750,000 to fund research into the next generation of lithium-sulphur batteries for use in space technology. The grant follows an innovation leading to the use of corn stalk residues to stabilise battery chemistry and nearly double charging capacity of current technology.
Six students from DPS STS School Dhaka secured first place at the NASA Space Settlement Contest 2023.
DU secured the first and second positions while BUET came in third.
