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The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the National Space Organization (NSPO), and other organizations held “2018 NASA Space Apps Challenge-Taipei” from October 19 to 21, 2018. Members of IES Coders outperformed other competitors, winning the third place in the contest and getting the IBM internship opportunity.

The APICTA Awards program organized by Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) attracted top elites in the field of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) around Asia-Pacific region to participate in the keen contest.The NCU representatives, with 5 members led by Dr. Shi-Jen Lin, Head of the Department of Information Management (DIM), won the Merit Award at the APICTA Awards.

The Weather Radar Center (WRC) under Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and the Radar Meteorology Laboratory under the Department of Atmospheric Sciences (DAS) of National Central University (NCU) have worked in collaboration since 2016

Singularity University (SU) in the United States and Taiwan Tech Arena (TTA) co-organized the 2018 SingularityU APAC Global Impact Challenge (SingularityU GIC). The team “Vibrasee” from National Central University (NCU) became the SU Ventures Award winner with the project “Micro Vibration Detector,” the optical technology application in detecting Parkinson’s disease. “Vibrasee” and the other team “WeavAir” both won the SU Ventures Award.

The editorial “Space, Still the Final Frontier” on the world-renowned scientific journal Science published in July 2018 discussed the new trend of space science development from huge satellites to small ones, taking as an example the International Satellite Program in Research and Education (INSPIRE), in which National Central University in Taiwan was involved.