NASA's Fourth Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, held on May 20-24, 2013 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida. From Bangladesh, total Five teams (3 real and 2 virtual teams!) participated in this event:
- Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology - BUET
- Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology - CHUET
- Military Institute of Science and Technology - MIST
Virtual Teams:
- Islamic University of Technology - IUT
- North South University - NSU
Two team from Bangladesh got the prize in the category of Luna Worldwide Campaign Award. In the competition the BUET team managed to collect 10.4kg lunar regolith in the first round. While in the second round, MIST team qualified to the competition managing 22.6kg lunar regolith, the results of the category was as follows:
- First Place - Military Institute of Science and Technology (MIST)
- Second Place - Kirori Mal College- Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi
- Third Place - Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
In the competition the Grand Prize was the Joe Kosmo Award for Excellence, the results is as follows:
- First Place - Iowa State University in collaboration with Nebraska Indian Community College & Wartburg College
- Second Place - West Virginia University in collaboration with Bluefield State College
- Third Place - The University of Alabama in collaboration with Shelton State Community College
The Lunabotics Mining Competition is a university-level competition designed to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). There is particular relevance to NASA’s recently announced mission to find an asteroid by 2016 and then bring it to Cis-Lunar space, the technology concepts developed by the university teams for this competition conceivably could be used to mine resources on Asteroids as well as Mars. Robotic miners, just like these, will allow us to take samples at the returned Asteroid and give us valuable information to prepare for other deep space missions. The challenge is for students to design and build a remote controlled or autonomous excavator that can collect and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms of regolith simulant (aggregate) within 10 minutes. Regolith exists not only on Earth’s moon, but also on most planetary bodies such as Asteroids, Moons of Mars and Mars itself. The complexities of the challenge include the abrasive characteristics of the simulant, the weight and size limitations of the robot, and the ability to control it from a remote control center. The scoring for the mining category will require teams to consider a number of design operation factors such as dust tolerance and projection, communications, vehicle mass, energy/power required, and full autonomy.
Below are the images of the Robots made by the Bangladeshi students, participated in the last third and fourth NASA's Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition:
Mechatron from BUET:
Robomist from MIST:
Chondrobot-2 from BRAC University (third annual competition):
IUT team and their Robot:
NSU team and their Robot:
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Monica Ali (born 20 October 1967) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer and novelist. In 2003 she was selected as one of the "Best of Young British Novelists" by Granta magazine based on her unpublished manuscript; her debut novel, Brick Lane, was published later that year. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. It was adapted as a 2007 film of the same name. She has published three additional novels.
Ali was born in Dhaka, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) in 1967 to a Bangladeshi father and English mother. When she was three, her family moved to Bolton, England. Her father is originally from the district of Mymensingh. She went to Bolton School and then studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford.
Brick Lane:
Brick Lane - named after Brick Lane, a street at the heart of London’s Bangladeshi community - follows the life of Nazneen, a Bangladeshi woman who moves to London at the age of 18, to marry an older man, Chanu. They live in Tower Hamlets. At first her English consists only of “sorry" and “thank you;” the novel explores her life and adaptations in the community, as well as the character of Chanu, and their larger ethnic community. The novel provoked controversy within the Bangladeshi community in Britain. Some groups thought Ali had negatively portrayed people from the Sylhet region, as they constitute the majority of the Bangladeshi immigrants living in the Brick Lane community.
The Observer described Chanu as “one of the novel’s foremost miracles: twice her age, with a face like a frog, a tendency to quote Hume and the boundless doomed optimism of the self-improvement junkie, he is both exasperating and, to the reader at least, enormously loveable.” Geraldine Bedell wrote in The Observer that the “most vivid image of the marriage is of her [Nazneen] cutting her husband’s corns, a task she seems required to perform with dreadful regularity. [Her husband] is pompous and kindly, full of plans, none of which ever come to fruition, and then of resentment at Ignorant Types who don’t promote him or understand his quotations from Shakespeare or his Open University race, ethnicity and class module.” The novel was well-received by critics in the United Kingdom and the United States, and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Film adaptation:
In 2007, the book was adapted as a film of the same name. Starring the Indian actress Tannishtha Chatterjee, the film was distributed both in the UK and internationally. When production was underway in 2006, some of the Bangladeshi community opposed Ruby Films' intention to film parts of the novel in the Brick Lane area. They formed the "Campaign Against Monica Ali’s Film Brick Lane.”
The writer and activist Germaine Greer expressed support for the campaign, writing in The Guardian: “As British people know little and care less about the Bangladeshi people in their midst, their first appearance as characters in an English novel had the force of a defining caricature ... [S]ome of the Sylhetis of Brick Lane did not recognize themselves. Bengali Muslims smart under an Islamic prejudice that they are irreligious and disorderly, the impure among the pure, and here was a proto-Bengali writer with a Muslim name, portraying them as all of that and more.”
Books of Monica Ali:
- Brick Lane (2003), Doubleday
- Alentejo Blue (2006), Doubleday
- In The Kitchen (2009), Doubleday
- Untold Story (2011), Scribner
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Akram Hossain Khan, MBE (born 29 July 1974) is an English dancer of Bangladeshi descent. His background is rooted in his classical kathak training and contemporary dance. Khan was born in Wimbledon, London, England into a family from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He began dancing and trained in the classical Indian dance form of Kathak at the age of seven. He studied with Sri Pratap Pawar, later becoming his disciple. He began his stage career at the age of 13, when he was cast in Peter Brook’s Shakespeare Company production of Mahabharata, touring the world between 1987 and 1989 and appearing in the televised version of the play broadcast in 1988.
Following later studies in Contemporary Dance at De Montfort University and Performing Arts at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and a period working with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Brussels based X-Group project, he began presenting solo performances of his work in the 1990s. In August 2000, he launched Akram Khan Company. His first full-length work Kaash, a collaboration with Anish Kapoor and Nitin Sawhney, was performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 2002.
As choreographer-in-residence and later associate artist at the Southbank Centre,[4] he presented a recital with Pandit Birju Maharaj and Sri Pratap Pawar; and A God of Small Tales, a piece for mature women for which he collaborated with writer Hanif Kureishi. He remained an associate artist at the Southbank Centre until April 2005, the first non-musician to be afforded this status, and is currently an associate artist at Sadler's Wells Theatre.
In 2008, he co-starred with Juliette Binoche in a dance-drama piece called in-i at the Royal National Theatre, London. In summer 2006, Khan was invited by Kylie Minogue to choreograph a section of her Showgirl concert. Khan appeared as a huge projection behind the singer as she performed. The songs were set in an Indian temple scenario, inspired by a trip Minogue made to Sri Lanka.[7] He has made pieces for the Ballet Boyz and Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan. Khan and his dance company performed at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony. Live music was provided by Emile Sande singing 'Abide With Me.
Akram Khan Dance Company journeys across boundaries to create uncompromising artistic narratives. Akram Khan Company produces thoughtful, provocative and ambitious dance productions for the international stage. Akram Khan takes human themes and works with others to take them to new and unexpected places - embracing and working with other cultures and disciplines.
The dance language in each production is rooted in Akram Khan's classical Kathak and modern dance training, and continually evolves to communicate ideas that are intelligent, courageous and new, bringing with it international acclaim and recognition as well as artistic and commercial success.
A brief description about the Akram Khan Company:
Founded in August 2000 by the Choreographer Akram Khan and Producer Farooq Chaudhry, Akram Khan Company journeys across boundaries to create uncompromising artistic narratives. Having established itself as one of the foremost innovative dance companies in the world, the company is renowned for its intercultural, interdisciplinary collaborations and for challenging conventional ideas of traditional dance forms. The dance language in each production is rooted in Akram Khan’s classical Kathak and modern dance training, and continually evolves to communicate ideas that are intelligent, courageous and new.
Akram Khan Company tours extensively both within the United Kingdom and internationally at leading international festival and venues, performing a diverse range of programmes including classical kathak solos, ensemble productions and artist-to-artist collaborations.
Vision and Mission of the Company:
- Akram Khan Dance Company journeys across boundaries to create uncompromising artistic narratives.
- Akram Khan Company produces thoughtful, provocative and ambitious dance productions for the international stage.
- Akram Khan takes human themes and works with others to take them to new and unexpected places – embracing and collaborating with other cultures and disciplines.
- The dance language in each production is rooted in Akram Khan’s classical Kathak and modern dance training and his fascination with storytelling. The work continually evolves to communicate ideas that are intelligent, courageous and new, bringing with it international acclaim and recognition as well as artistic and commercial success.
Awards achieved:
- 2013: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award 2012 for Best Male Dancer (Akram Khan)
- 2012: TMA Theatre Awards UK 2012 for Achievement in Dance (Akram Khan for DESH)
- 2012: Olivier Awards 2012 for Best New Dance Production (DESH)
- 2012: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award 2011 for Best Modern Choreography (Vertical Road)
- 2011: Distinguished Artist Award, International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), New York (Akram Khan)
- 2011: South Bank Sky Arts Award in Dance, UK (Gnosis)
- 2010: Danza & Danza Award for Best Performance in 2010, Bolzano, Italy (Vertical Road)
- 2010: The Age Critics Award for Best New Work, Melbourne Arts Festival (Vertical Road)
- 2010: Honorary Fellowship from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in recognition of outstanding efforts and unique contributions to the arts (Akram Khan)
- 2010: Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Roehampton University (Akram Khan)
- 2007: Helpmann Award for Best Choreography, Sydney Arts Festival (zero degrees)
- 2007: Helpmann Award for Best Male Dancer, Sydney Arts Festival (zero degrees)
- 2007: Excellence in International Dance Award by International Theatre Institute (Akram Khan)
- 2005: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Male or Female Artist (modern) (Akram Khan)
- 2005: South Bank Show Award (ma)
- 2005: MBE for services to dance (Akram Khan)
- 2004: Honorary Doctorate of Arts for his contribution to the UK arts community, De Montfort University (Akram Khan)
- 2004: The International Movimetos Tanzpreis for Most Promising Newcomer in Dance (Akram Khan)
- 2002: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Best Modern Choreography (Kaash)
- 2000: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Newcomer to Dance (Rush)
- 2000: Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Newcomer to Dance (Akram Khan in Rush)
- 2000: Jerwood Foundation Choreography Award (Loose in Flight)
Nominations achieved:
- 2012: 13th Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for Best Modern Choreography (DESH)
- 2012: 13th Critics' Circle National Dance Awards - Dancing Times Awards for Best Male Dancer (Akram Khan)
- 2012: 33rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Dance Production (Confluence)
- 2012: British Inspiration Awards Arts Category (Akram Khan)
- 2012: South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2012 Dance Category (DESH)
- 2012: London Dance Award 2012 (Akram Khan)
- 2011: Les Globes de Cristal Art et Culture Awards: “Opera or Dance Performance” (In-I)
- 2010: 11th Critics' Circle National Dance Awards for Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) - dancers Eulalia Ayguade Farro (Vertical Road, bahok) & Yoshie Sunahata (Gnosis)
- 2010: Olivier Award for Outstanding Contribution to Dance - Yoshie Sunahata (Gnosis)
- 2010: Manchester Evening News Theatre Dance Award (bahok)
- 2006: Time Out Award (zero degrees)
- 2006: Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production (zero degrees)
- 2005: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Company Prize for Best Choreography (Modern) (zero degrees)
- 2005: The Critics' Circle National Dance Award for Company Prize for Outstanding Repertoire (Modern) (Akram Khan Company)
- 2002: Best Dance Show by French Magazine Le Inrockuptibles (Kaash)
- 2002: Nijinsky Award for Best New Comer, Monaco Dances Forum (Akram Khan)
- 2001: South Bank Show Award (Rush)
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Rushanara Ali is a British Labour Party politician and Associate Director of the Young Foundation, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bethnal Green and Bow since 2010. She is currently part of the shadow team for the Department for International Development along with Tony Cunningham and led by Ivan Lewis.
Rushanara Ali was born in Bangladesh on 14 March 1975. With her family, Ali immigrated to the East End of London at the age of seven, where she attended Mulberry School for Girls and Tower Hamlets College. Growing up in Tower Hamlets, her father was a manual worker. The first in her family to go to university, Ali studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St John's College, Oxford.
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Rushanara Ali was elected as the Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow at the UK General Election in May 2010. She moved to the UK with her family from Bangladesh when she was 7 years old. Her achievements are the achievements of teachers and youth workers at Mulberry School and Tower Hamlets College. It was their support and belief in her which led her to a place at Oxford University and jobs in Parliament, the Institute for Public Policy and Research, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Home Office and now as the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow.
Biography of Rushanara Ali:
Rushanara Ali is the Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow. She was elected in May 2010 with a majority of 11,574, having defeated George Galloway’s Respect Party.
In October 2010, Rushanara was appointed to the Labor front bench as Shadow Minister for International Development. As part of this role she is the Labour spokesperson on International Development matters for Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, climate change, conflict and stabilisation as well as gender equality.
Prior to her election in May 2010, she was Associate Director of the Young Foundation. She previously worked at the Communities Directorate of the Home Office, leading a work programme in response to the 2001 disturbances in the North of England (2002-2005).
Rushanara has worked on human rights issues at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2000-2001); as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (1999-2002) and as Parliamentary Assistant for Oona King, former MP for Bethnal Green & Bow (1997-1999).
She has also worked as the Research Assistant to Lord Young of Dartington (author of the 1945 Labour Party manifesto), helping him to set up Futureversity (formerly known as Tower Hamlets Summer University) and Language Line, a national telephone interpreting company.
Little about the Bethnal Green and Bow:
The heart of London’s East End, Bethnal Green and Bow is a wonderfully diverse community, with a rich and deep history and proud political heritage. The East End has inspired many men and women to make history and fight for social justice. Some of the greatest social reforms of the past 100 years- the trade union movement, Suffragettes and the welfare state have come from ideas inspired by the East End and it's people.
Bethnal Green and Bow is known for its vibrancy, its cultural activity, its places and its people. Whitechapel gallery, Columbia Road flower market, and Spitalfields market are just some of the places that attract thousands of locals and visitors from around the world.
Iconic places Brick Lane tell an extraordinary history of Britain. Brick Lane was the first place many waves of migrants called home, from the Huguenots, Jews, Irish, Pakistanis, Bengalis, to the Somalis to name just a few. The richness of contributions made by so many generations is manifested poignantly in the Brick Lane Jamme Masjid. Originally built by the Huguenots for Christian worshippers, it later became a synagogue and is now a mosque.
The spirit of people from the East End is steeped in courage and determination as well as sacrifice and loss. The worst civilian loss of life in Britain during the Second World War was the Bethnal Green tube disaster. On the 3rd March 1943, 173 people lost their lives in the Bethnal Green and Bow tube station whilst seeking shelter from air raids during the blitz bombings.
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Kevin Hartz:
Kevin is the co-founder of Eventbrite, a popular event registration service. Previously, Kevin was co-founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing service in over 30 countries. Kevin also co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry. ConnectGroup was acquired by Lodgenet in 1998. Kevin holds a BA and BS from Stanford University and an MA from Oxford University. He has been an early-stage investor and advisor to startups such as PayPal, Geni.com, Friendster, Flixster.com, and Trulia. Kevin is also a Sequoia Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital. You can see his full list of affiliations at www.kevinhartz.com.
Jawed Karim:
Jawed Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany, in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1980. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi American researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a German scientist and research associate professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Jawed co-founded the YouTube to enable individuals worldwide to broadcast themselves. Prior to YouTube, he was one of the first engineers at PayPal. Jawed received a BS in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MS in computer science from Stanford University. He is a Sequoia Technology Partner at Sequoia Capital.
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Sumazi was founded on a powerful idea: Someone should never miss an opportunity to connect with the right person at the right time. The technology company was founded by former Sun Microsystems employee Sumaya Kazi in April 2011 and is currently in private beta. Sumaya Kazi (born July 17, 1982) is a Bangladeshi-American Entrepreneur. She is the Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company Sumazi, an intelligent social navigation system for personal and professional networks. Kazi held one of the first social media management positions at a Fortune 500, company leading social media at Sun Microsystems until its acquisition by Oracle.
Sumazi is an intelligent social navigation system for personal and professional networks. Its technology delivers personalized routing and recommendations to the people users should know based on his/her social media behavior. The service acts as a layer over social networking services, including Facebook and LinkedIn. Sumazi's intelligent connection engine analyzes a user’s network behavior to discover and prioritize opportunities, while its intelligent routing system automatically recommends and introduces users to the experts in his/her extended network.
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Khan Academy is a free global classroom, an educational website for anyone anywhere in the world. After getting registered with the academy, you're joining with millions of Students from all over the world who learn at their own pace every single day. You can read some of the inspirational stories shared in the Academy’s web portal, all the info provided here taken from their portal. You are requested to visit the Site for further details.
According to the Wikipedia: The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is "providing a high quality education for anyone, anywhere.
The Team behind the Khan Academy:
A small team trying our best to improve the way the world learns. Too many people around the globe don’t have access to good education materials, or they are forced to learn through a system that doesn't properly cater to their individual needs. The TEAM thinks that the technology exists today to fundamentally change this, and they're trying to build the tools and resources every student deserves. The Team believes a few great people can make a big difference; they strive to hire the very best people who are passionate, thoughtful and creative. The Team behind Khan Academy believes that it is their obligation to relentlessly focus on what the learner values, and they make every decision with the learner in mind.
Khan Academy is an organization on a mission; it is a not-for-profit with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for all. All of the site's resources are available to anyone. It doesn't matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. Khan Academy's materials and resources are available to you completely free of charge.
How it works for students:
- Students can make use of our extensive video library, interactive challenges, and assessments from any computer with access to the web.
Complete custom self-paced learning tool:
- A dynamic system for getting help
- A custom profile, points, and badges to measure progress
For Coaches, parents, and teachers:
- Coaches, parents, and teachers have unprecedented visibility into what their students are learning and doing on the Khan Academy.
Ability to see any student in detail:
- A real-time class report for all students
- Better intelligence for doing targeted interventions
- Over 4100 learning videos
- Our library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer.
A world of skills to practice, with help along the way:
- Practice math at your own pace with our adaptive assessment environment. You can start at 1+1 and work your way into calculus or jump right into whatever topic needs some brushing up.
- Each problem is randomly generated, so you never run out of practice material. If you need a hint, every single problem can be broken down, step-by-step, with one click. If you need more help, you can always watch a related video.
Your stats, instantly:
- Every time you work on a problem or watch a video, the Khan Academy remembers what you've learned and where you're spending your time. We keep all of this data private but expose powerful statistics to each user and their coaches. You get at-a-glance information about everything you've been learning and whether or not you've been hitting your goals.
- You can drill all the way down from a bird's-eye view of your profile into each and every skill practice problem that you've ever worked on. You'll see real, hard data about your increasing mastery of math.
A map of knowledge:
- The knowledge map shows all of our challenges, skills, and concepts. You can zoom in and out and pan around all the different skills and challenges, just like on a normal map. You can start working anywhere on the map, and the Khan Academy will suggest the best skills for you to work on. We'll even remind you when you need a review.
- As you zoom out of the knowledge map, you'll find our challenges, which combine the concepts from multiple smaller skills. Zooming all the way out of the map and completing all of our challenges is a sign of math mastery.
Your classroom data finally:
- Teachers and coaches can access all of their students' data. You can get a summary of class performance as a whole or dive into a particular student's profile to figure out exactly which topics are problematic. The class profile lets coaches glance at their dashboard and quickly figure out how to best spend their time teaching.
- We've put a lot of energy into making sure that the Khan Academy empowers teachers by giving them access to the data they would've had for years. You'll know instantly if a student is struggling in multiplying fractions...or if she hit a streak and is now far ahead of the class.
Badges worth bragging about:
- We're full of game mechanics. As soon as you log in, you'll start earning badges and points for learning. The more you challenge yourself, the more bragging rights you'll get.
- We've heard of students spending hour after hour watching physics videos and 5th graders relentlessly tackling college-level math to earn Khan Academy badges. Some of the smaller badges are very easy, but the most legendary badges might require years of work.
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