The IIE’s Varsity College Waterfall students compete in hackathon
Students were allowed and encouraged to communicate with mentors and with PwC and Auxo Digital who were present at the Hackathon for some tips and tricks.
The IIE’s Varsity College Waterfall hosted the first Hackathon event for its students on campus on October 28.
The Hackathon, also known as a codefest, is a social coding event that brings computer programmers and other interested people together to improve upon or build a new software programme.
The second and third-year IIE Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences in application development students collaborated to form eight teams of four students to compete in the Hackathon. Each Hackathon team had to choose a name.
Programme manager for the School of Information Technology at Varsity College Waterfall, Handsome Mpofu gave the teams different projects to work on.
These included a web-based budget approval system, visitors tracking application, a library information system, a student message board, and a student group management system.
“The Hackathon was the event of the year for our campus’ School of Information Technology, a major success indeed. Students collaborated well with their team members and networked effectively with the mentors to get much-needed guidance,” said Mpofu.
Throughout the day, students were allowed and encouraged to communicate with mentors and with PwC and Auxo Digital who were present at the Hackathon for some tips and tricks.
Judges Johan Vorster IIE head of faculty information and communication technology, Mariska Scriba PwC senior manager cyber security, Dr Sinini Nyathi senior software developer, and Aubrey Senzani, IIE school of management lecturer, judged the teams based on implementation, design, business presentation, and inspiration.
Andile Ngwenya, Deon Meyer, Thagen Sivasathan, and Rummana Omar were part of the second-year winning team – Phantoms.
Bulela Tyelela, Claudio Alho, Dewald Taljaard, and Ntokozo Mweli were part of the third-year winning team – Deadlock Survivors, and third-year runners-up HTTP418 team included Darshika Pillay, Josh Mkhari, Lesedi Seleke, Brian Khumalo.
“Being part of the third-year winning team that worked on the library information system was an exciting moment, it still feels unreal. I am honoured to have worked with team members who could step up to the plate and go far beyond the scope they were expected to,” said Tyelela.
The second year’s first prize and third year’s runners-up prize both included a R1 000 Takealot voucher, while the third year’s first prize included a R1 500 Takealot voucher and an exclusive virtual reality experience from Auxo Digita.
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