After a few month’s hard work, final participants were selected to demo their prototypes to a group of judging panels from industry and academics\u00a0 on Wednesday 26th March 2014.\u00a0The judges were exciting and interesting to see so many new ideas and prototypes.\u00a0 And the winners of the\u00a0Student Mobile App Competition\u00a02013-2014 are:<\/p>\n
Competition Winner & Winner of the Public Favorite\u00a0App:\u00a0<\/b>Explore app developed by Hayden Mills from Computer Science<\/strong>; Explore app is an application to provide information to the students about the University campus such as a campus map, guided routes, points of interest, a prospectus and accommodation guide. It supports voice recognition and works in 4 main languages including English, Spanish, French and Chinese. Hayden is awarded with IBM Placement offer , Kindle tablet, Amazon Voucher and Certificate.<\/p>\n Competition Winner:\u00a0<\/b>Uni-Ticket app developed by Joshua Wood from Maths<\/strong>; Uni-Ticket is a\u00a0mobile app that allows students to buy and sell unwanted tickets for nights out. Joshua is awarded with Deutsche bank placement offer, Kindle tablet and certificate.<\/p>\n Competition Winner: Bookonnector app developed by\u00a0Yousef Amar\u00a0from EECE,\u00a0Nandini Morgaria from\u00a0Accounting and Finance,\u00a0Zeeshan Ahmad from\u00a0Physics,\u00a0Sahil Kunder from\u00a0Economics, and\u00a0Jesus Toscano\u00a0Physics;\u00a0<\/strong>This app to help students at the University of Birmingham to buy and sell second hand books. The app acts as a medium to help students find appropriate books related to their course. And they were awarded with ITIC placement offer, kindle tablet and certificate.<\/p>\n Runner-up: Applicant app developed by\u00a0Theophilus Wait\u00a0from Law and\u00a0Ashley Robertson from\u00a0Computer Science;<\/strong> for prospective students, this app acts as a market analysis tool, where universities are the market. Various parameters and information are displayed to the prospective student, in order to aid the student with selecting a university, as well as aiding the student to organise information.<\/p>\n Runner-up:\u00a0<\/strong>Mailssenger app developed by\u00a0Han Jiang from Computer Science; <\/b>this app combines\u00a0a mail client and instant message, which is particularly useful for students in China where western social media channels are difficult to access. Han Jiang is awarded with Kindle tablet and certificate.<\/p>\n Runner-up: Exam organiser app developed by Samuel Kendell from Computer Science<\/strong>; this app helps\u00a0students organise their time more effectively around the exam period. Samuel is awarded with Kindle tablet and certificate.<\/p>\n Commendation:\u00a0Mathlete app developed by\u00a0<\/b>Luke Sambrooks <\/b>from\u00a0Computer Science; <\/strong>this app is a\u00a0mental training tool for Mathematics students. Luke is awarded with Amazon voucher and certificate.<\/p>\n Commendation:\u00a0Allergi Sense app developed by\u00a0Luis Hernandez-Munoz from EECE; <\/b>this app is to\u00a0support the management of life-threatening anaphylactic allergies. Luis is awarded with Amazon voucher and certificate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a few month’s hard work, final participants were selected to demo their prototypes to a group of judging panels from industry and academics\u00a0 on Wednesday 26th March 2014.\u00a0The judges were exciting and interesting to see so many new ideas and prototypes.\u00a0 And the winners of the\u00a0Student Mobile App Competition\u00a02013-2014 are: Competition Winner & Winner … Continue reading “Student Mobile App Competition 2013-2014 Winners Announced”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events","category-smac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/itinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}