National phase of Bangladesh AI Olympiad held
In order to keep pace with the future world, students of Bangladesh need to be proficient in new technologies including artificial intelligence. Participation in the Olympiad is necessary to make school and college-level students proficient in age-changing technologies for building Smart Bangladesh.
On Saturday, the guests expressed such an opinion at the closing session of the first Bangladesh AI Olympiad organized at the Institute of Information Technology, Dhaka University.
As the chief guest at the program, Dhaka University Pro-Vice Chancellor (Academic) Professor Dr. Sitesh Chandra Bachar said to the students that there is no option to work in line with world standards without falling behind. Bangladesh will reach a new height in the world only if it can reach the marginal level of AI technology. While speaking as a special guest, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of Dhaka University Dr. Hafiz Md. Hasan Babu expressed his optimism that today's generation will find a new Bangladesh, will show the light of new hope.
In the morning, 45 students from all over the country and those who were selected in the online selection phase solved four artificial intelligence problems in a four-hour-long competition. Based on the results, a total of 10 students are selected for the national camp. They are Chittagong Cantonment Public College students Abrar Shahid and Misbah Uddin Inan, South Bridge School student Adib Bin Qadir, Scholars School and College student Ashabul Yamin Arjan, Fauzdarhat Cadet College student Md. Manjum Rahman, Mohammad Saad of Manipur High School, Rafid Ahmed of Academia School, SM Sabib Abdullah of Mastermind English Medium School, Tausif Wahid Suprav of St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School and Dhanmondi Govt. Boys’ High School student Arefin Anwar. From May 22 to May 25, four students will be selected from these 10 through the national camp in Dhaka.
The selected team will participate in the 1st International AI Olympiad to be held in Bulgaria on August 9-15, 2024.
Earlier, online programming contest and online grooming sessions were held with the selected students with the participation of registered students from all over Bangladesh. The winners of this live national phase will be held online for grooming session on 21-22 May and selection camp and international team selection test on 23-25 May. The Bangladesh team will be finally selected by checking the performance of the students who participated in the camp as well as their intelligence skills. It is to be noted that BDOSN has been given the responsibility of country coordination to organize the Bangladesh phase of this prestigious competition to be held for the first time in Bulgaria on August 9-15, 2024. Through this opportunity is created for the boys and girls of high school in Bangladesh to participate in the International AI Olympiad.
Director of Information Technology Institute of Dhaka University, BM Moinul Hossain chaired the closing session.
The BDOSN Vice President Professor Dr. Lafifa Jamal, Reeve System Chief Commercial Officer Raihan Hossain, E-Generation PLC Director Imran Mohammad Abdullah, Bengali Language Project Consultant of Bangladesh Computer Council Mamunur Rashid, A2i Policy Analyst Md Afzal Hossain Sarwar and Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN) General Secretary Munir Hasan also spoke at the closing session.
This event is sponsored by Reeve Chat, Brain Station 23, E-Generation and Intelligent Machines. In addition, Aspire to Innovate (A2I), daily Prothom Alo while NLP partner, the Bengali language enrichment project under ICTD has collaborated through research and development and Kishore Alo and Bigyanchinta are magazine partners. In collaboration with Internet Society Bangladesh Chapter, Bytes for All, Bangladesh Robot Olympiad, JRC Board, World Robot Olympiad- Bangladesh, Banglar Math and Scratch Bangladesh.
