A team from Bangladesh has recently won 2 silver and 1 bronze medal at the 16th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) 2023. This year’s competition consisted of 256 student participants from 50 nations, with this being the first time Bangladesh won a silver medal in this global event.
On May 18, 2023 the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Bangladesh hosted the ceremony of presenting medals and certificates of the 1st International | BLiTZ
This year, the Open World Astronomy Olympiad (OWAO) was organised for the first time ever and was held in Saransk, Russia from September 26 to October 2.