The School of Computer Science and Engineering hosted the fourth undergraduate programming, maths and logic hackathon in collaboration with the Westminster International University in Tashkent (WIUT) and the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) in Sri Lanka.
The hackathon session, which held 104 students from computing courses at Westminster, WIUT and IIT, ran during engagement week and was hosted virtually on Blackboard, which provided an interesting atmospheric environment. All 26 teams participated in a series of mathematical, logic and programming questions over a marathon of two and a half hours.
It was organised by academics from the School of Computer Science and Engineering Markos Mentzelopoulos, Dr Klaus Draeger, Dr Salma Chahed, Dr Artie Basukoski, Dr Alexandra Psarou, Dr Mohammed Al-Janabi and Dr Alexander Bolotov with the support of computing academics at WIUT and IIT as well as Assistant Head of School Kamalini Sivagurunathan and Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Global Engagement and Employability Professor Alex Hughes.
The organising team would like to congratulate the winners, Team Digit, consisting of Jules Rodrigues, Ivan Palazzo, Ajmal Sarif and Carola Pettinato who are all studying on the Computer Games Development BSc Honours course, and all of the participating students for their exceptional performance.
Congratulations also to the runners up team, Terabyte, from the IIT, which consisted of BEng(Hons) Software Engineering students Thiranya Tennakoon, Inusha Manawadu, Hirun Koditupwakku and BS(Hons) Computer Science student Dimal Gallage, and to the third place team, Sirius, from the WIUT, consisting of students Abdulaziz Pulatjonov, Abdulaziz Mirzayev, Jasurbek Ibragimov and Bekhzod Rizaev.
Speaking about the importance of students having the opportunity to participate in competing events, Course Leader in Computer Games Development BSc Honours Markos Mentzelopoulos, said: “The important benefits of participating in these hackathon events are that students are able to network with other colleagues, demonstrate course learned skills under stressful and demanding conditions and build up their working experience.”
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