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Dr. Lankapalli Bullayya College of Engineering, Visakhapatnam, hosted the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2025 connected Saturday (October 04, 2025). The hackathon, themed “Learn, Launch, Lead”, was organised by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) successful relation with Prajna Resources Private Limited. It aims to animate innovation, creativity, and problem-solving utilizing NASA’s open-source information successful the tract of abstraction subject and technology.
Addressing the gathering, Naval Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) Director Abraham Varughese asked the participants to deliberation beyond boundaries and strive for excellence successful probe and innovation. He urged the students and researchers to harness creativity and exertion for solving real-world challenges related to Earth and Space.
Secretary and Correspondent of the assemblage G. Madhu Kumar said that this enactment was organised by the assemblage to springiness unwavering enactment to budding endowment astatine the assemblage level. He said the lawsuit was organised by NASA successful collaboration with 14 planetary abstraction bureau partners, including ISRO, ESA, JAXA, the Canadian Space Agency, and others. The hackathon brings unneurotic innovators, technologists, students, and researchers from implicit 185 countries to plan solutions utilizing NASA’s unfastened information and Earth-observation resources.
Nearly 300 students from assorted colleges successful and astir the metropolis had the accidental to prosecute successful a 48-hour innovation challenge, leveraging NASA’s unfastened datasets to make impactful solutions addressing real-world scientific, environmental, and space-related problems. This inaugural not lone encourages interdisciplinary learning but besides promotes teamwork, innovation, and entrepreneurship among young minds, helium added.
Dr. L. Bullayya College of Engineering Principal Deepak Chowdary said that the NASA International Space Apps Challenge continues to beryllium the world’s largest planetary hackathon, inspiring participants to explore, discover, and lend to planetary innovation for a amended satellite and a amended future.
