Two undergraduate students from Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) have secured a place in the finals of the 2025 Not-A-Boring Competition, an annual engineering contest organised by The Boring Company, the tunnel-digging venture of billionaire Elon Musk.

Bangladesh's Bored Tunnelers invited to Elon Musk’s The Boring Company headquarters to trial their tunnel boring machine.

The Bangladeshi team Bored Tunnelers, this year, has emerged as the first ever South Asian team to be among those top teams in the finals.