Team ‘501 Implementing’ representing APIIT, a leading private higher education institute in Sri Lanka, became one of the two teams winning the prize for the Asia Pacific region at the world’s largest telco application development Hackathon TADHack Global 2020.
A total of eight teams qualified for global judging to represent Sri Lanka at the event which connected teams from over twenty cities in the world to an overnight hacking marathon on October 10-11. The two winning teams of the Asia-Pacific region received a share of a prize pot.
The winning team, ‘501 Implementing’, comprised of Arshad Aiyoob, Idrees Nafly, Izzath Mohammed, Shaakira Mubarak and Sidra Mowlana. The students who are all part of the School of Computing at APIIT, developed a tracking system named COVID-Zero which is a virtual assistant alerting users with news updates via SMS, providing the closest locations to get a PCR test done, determining if one is symptomatic and comes with an AI-based call agent to assist callers.
Commenting on the win, Prof. Priyantha Kumarawadu, Head of the School of Computing, APIIT said, “I extend my warmest congratulations to our students for winning the Asia Pacific (APAC) prize of this year’s TADHack Global Competition. At APIIT, we encourage creativity, innovation and research within our communities, providing opportunity for our students to showcase their true potential to be future leaders. Winning this award showcases not only our students’ technical abilities, but also their flexibility, adaptability and ability to identify and provide a creative solution within a stipulated time frame under tight deadlines”.
Team ‘501 Implementing’ was exultant at being placed regional winners in TADHack 2020. “We are proud of this globally recognised achievement. The competition posed many challenges as we were not just competing locally but also with teams around the world. The core challenge was integrating APIs and coming up with a web or mobile based solution. As students following the Software Engineering and Computer Networks and Security degree at APIIT, we were provided with a strong academic and practical foundation, therefore we were able to apply those concepts to our solution and successfully integrate it with our system”, the Team members said.
Initiated in 2013 as an effort to build an eco-system focused on telecom application development, TADHACK is an annually organised hackathon for developers.
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