Motorola, SLASSCOM sponsored annual Inter-University Innovations
Championship
Motorola Solutions Lanka (Private) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Motorola Solutions Inc (www.motorolasolutions.com) of USA is
organizing the 4th Annual Inter University competition for Computer
Science/Engineering students of Universities and University affiliation
colleges in Sri Lanka.
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US Ambassador Michele J.Sison sharing a light moment with a
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The 2013 competition has been re-structured and re-named to provide a
much wider scope.
The competition funded and mentored by Motorola Solutions under the
umbrella of Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies
(SLASSCOM) invites the participation of those remaining as University
Students till December 31st, 2013.
This year's launch would be held on Friday June 14 from 09.00 a.m at
Prof. V.K. Samaranayake Auditorium at the University of Colombo School
of Computing with the participation of Mrs. Allison Areias-Vogal ,
Counselor Economic & Commercial Affairs of US Embassy in Colombo as the
Chief Guest and Dr. Kumara Hirimburegama, Vice Chancellor of University
of Colombo as the Guest of Honor.
Anuradha Tennakoon, Director/Country Manager for Motorola Solutions
in Sri Lanka and also a Board Member of SLASSCOM said that this
competition which has become extremely popular among the Sri Lankan
higher education institutes has been experiencing an exponential growth
during the last three years. "During the last three years the focus has
been on Enterprise Mobility Solutions and the University students are
now finding difficulties to come out with innovative new solutions.
Therefore, we decided to broad base this year's competition in order
to give many choices to students" he added.
In the past three years a noticeable feature of the competition was
that the overall winner was always an outstation University
At the end of the introductory seminar, students would be introduced
to a basket of goodies consisting of Hardware, Software & development
tools using which they can develop innovative products of their likings.
Students will be asked to form groups with maximum of 04 members and be
invited to submit abstracts within next 04 weeks of projects/prototypes
that they intend to develop and a panel of experts will select those
which are innovative and have market potential now or in future.
More information could be obtained from
www.slasscom.lk.
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