{"id":27814,"date":"2025-12-22T17:48:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T17:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=27814"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T18:07:14","slug":"easwari-engineering-college-chennai-students-win-global-honour-at-nasa-space-apps-challenge-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=27814","title":{"rendered":"Easwari Engineering College, Chennai Students Win Global Honour at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27815\" src=\"https:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-1024x715.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG-20251222-WA0084-1536x1073.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Easwari Engineering College, Chennai Students Win Global Honour at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7654\" src=\"https:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Faceinews-Logo-Copy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"43\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chennai, December 22, 2025: Students of Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, Chennai, have brought global recognition to India by winning a prestigious honour at the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2025, the world\u2019s largest hackathon organised by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Easwari Engineering College, Chennai Students Win Global Honour at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025\" width=\"598\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QkxW-CzIlUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The student team, Photonics Odyssey, emerged as one of the top 10 global winners among 18,860 teams from 167 countries, making it the only winning project with Indian participation. The team received the Most Inspirational Award for their innovative and socially impactful solution.<br \/>\nThe winning team comprised Rajalingam N, Prasanth Gopalakrishnan, Rashi Menon and Sakthi Sanjeev Kumar (II Year, Electronics and Communication Engineering), along with Deeraj Kumar and Manish Varma D (III Year, Computer Science Engineering \u2013 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning).<br \/>\nThe students developed a satellite-based internet infrastructure model aimed at expanding high-speed connectivity to remote and underserved regions. The project was recognised for its innovation, technical robustness and potential for global social impact.<br \/>\nEarlier selected as Global Finalists, the team was subsequently chosen as winners by an Executive Committee consisting of senior leaders from NASA and 14 International Space Agency partners, including ISRO and the European Space Agency (ESA).<br \/>\nThe competition went through multiple rounds of evaluation conducted by top-level industry experts, subject matter experts, and CEOs from companies such as Google, Tesla, and Autodesk.<br \/>\nThe team competed alongside engineers from Apple, founders of major tech companies, and lead scientists from Target. In addition, teams from globally renowned universities such as UC Irvine, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Wisconsin also participated.<br \/>\nThe project documentation and demo were evaluated by executive panels consisting of NASA engineers and scientists, along with leaders from Meta, NVIDIA, and Walmart.<br \/>\nEaswari Engineering College felicitated the students in recognition of their achievement, which reflects the institution\u2019s emphasis on research-led learning and interdisciplinary innovation.<\/p>\n<p>The accomplishment stands as a testament to India\u2019s growing prominence in technology, innovation and space research, and underscores the capability of Indian students to compete at the highest global platforms.<br \/>\nLaunched in 2012, the NASA International Space Apps Challenge is an annual global hackathon that encourages participants worldwide to solve real-world challenges using NASA\u2019s open data. Over the years, it has evolved into one of the world\u2019s largest collaborative platforms for STEM innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easwari Engineering College, Chennai Students Win Global Honour at NASA Space Apps Challenge 2025 Chennai, December 22, 2025: Students of Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, Chennai, have brought global recognition to India by winning a prestigious honour at the NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2025, the world\u2019s largest hackathon organised by the National Aeronautics and Space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,22,11,27,34,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate","category-education","category-international","category-new-hopes","category-news","category-technology","category-value-added-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27818,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27814\/revisions\/27818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}