MIT, Manipal and MITE, Moodbidri emerge winners in Unisys technical contest

MANGALURU: Two colleges from undivided Dakshina Kannada:

Manipal Institute of Technology

, Manipal and

Mangalore Institute of Technology

and Engineering, Mangaluru have respectively bagged first and second place in the Eighth Unisys Cloud 20/20TM, one of India’s largest annual technical project contests.

The winners were announced on April 7 in Bengaluru. The contest is designed to foster innovation among students and create a talent pipeline for Unisys and the

IT industry

at large.

Heads of Unisys said that in this year’s contest, the project titled Fin Assistant by Arpan Kumar Mishra, Datla Manish Varma, Nabil Silva and Sailesh Sriram from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal, won the first prize carrying purse of Rs 2 lakh. Nagashree TS, Nikitha Chowta and Sandhya S from Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Mangalore, took the second prize carrying cash of Rs 1,25,000 for their project titled CO-DI-RA Messenger.

This year, the third prize has been awarded to two teams with Rs 1 lakh they include: Shyam Suganth J, Hariharsudan S, Subash M and Thamarai Selvan S, of Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College, Puducherry, for their project Envirinsta and Vinaydeep Kaur, Akriti Tyagi, M Kritika and Pratima Kumari from Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, for their project Crowdsourcing Based Android Application for Structural Health Monitoring and Data Analytics of Roads Using Cloud Computing.

Unisys project

leads and subject matter experts supported the student contestants. This year’s topics included Internet of Things, data analytics, cloud-based applications and services, cloud security, computing everywhere, context-rich systems, cloud security, DevOps and potential future technologies.

The 2017 Cloud 20/20 contest drew 828 team registrations and 317 project submissions from colleges across India. In addition to the cash prize, Unisys will also offer the finalists internship and job opportunities, subject to winners’ eligibility and open positions within the company.

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