Telco to announce best student applications Feb. 14

TEN mobile applications developed by the students bested more than a hundred entries to compete for the top honors in this year’s Smart Wireless Engineering Education program (SWEEP) Innovation and Excellence Awards.

On Feb. 14, Smart Communications Inc. will reveal the three best applications that have the potential to improve the lives in communities and contribute in nation building.

The awarding will be held at the Dusit Thani Manila hotel in Makati City, and will be attended by the students who developed the ten projects that entered the final phase, together with their mentors.

The winning team will receive P500,000, while the second and third placers will get P200,000 and P100,000. The winning team’s schools will also receive grants equivalent to their cash prizes.

Vying for this year’s awards are the teams from De La Salle-Lipa for their entries – Automatic Detection of Traffic Density and Systematic Market Application for Real-time Trading (SMART), Ateneo De Manila University for LowCal and Botica on-the-Go applications, Tarlac State University which developed Smart H.E.A.D. (Helmet Engineered for Accidents and Disasters), Colegio de San Juan de Letran-Calamba with their Arduino-based switching device for electrical appliances using multiple wireless communication via Android mobile phone, Bulacan State University for its Early Detection of Leptospira Bacteria through Matlab application, University of Southeastern Philippines in Davao City for their entries Wordify: A selected language translator using digital image processing and document and Banana: A digital image processing approach for early banana diseases detection, and Fly Smart of South Cotabato’s Notre Dame of Marbel University.

The ten teams will do their presentation and defense before a panel of industry experts on Feb. 14 and the three successful teams will be announced winners.

Now on its 9th year, the SWEEP Innovation and Excellence Awards continues to bring out the best in young people, challenging students to put their knowledge to good use by developing wireless applications to address problems in their communities.

This year’s theme is “Technology in Nation-building.”