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A team of
SIT students from Republic Polytechnic took part in the Splash Awards 2006 – 3G
Live! organised by the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). The Prize Presentation
Ceremony and Market Place was held at Singapore Polytechnic Convention Centre on
30 Nov 2006. Our students competed with other IHLs for the top prizes in the
Consumer Application and Business/Enterprise categories. They beat entries from NUS and the other polytechnics to place first in the Business/Enterprise
category.
Splash
Awards 2006 – 3G Live! is part of SCS’s annual Splash Award competition and it
aims to generate greater awareness and excitement among students and the public
about Infocomm. With 3G emerging as the prevalent trend in the infocomm sector,
SCS, in collaboration with the iDA and the ITE College Central, jointly
organized this competition with the aim of driving 3G awareness, transfer of
wireless competency from technology principles to the developers’ community, and
the development of 3G solutions leading to commercialization and deployment.
The RP team
comprising 3 second year students from SIT (Chen Deshun, Teo Yi Jin and Lee
Youwei Marcus) and advised by SIT staff, Tan Wee Siong and Alfred Thet, had
started preparing their business plan in July and developing the application in
August 2006. They had spent close to 6 months developing and refining their
project for this competition. The team – Securities Real-Time, had developed a
financial securities application which offers access to stock data (on the
mobile phone) at all times with technical and market analysis.
Judging for
the competition was held on 9 November 2006 but the results were only released
during the Prize Presentation Ceremony and Market Place on 30 November 2006.
The finalists had to showcase their product at the Market Place segment before
the announcement of the winners. The winning teams were also given the
opportunity to present their projects to the audience after the prize
presentation. Our students definitely created an impact with their practical
and enterprising application of 3G in a real world financial setting.
Congratulations to Deshun, Yi Jin and Marcus on the win!
* For RP Staff - Click here to view the rest of the photos from this event
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