CSE undergraduates Won 3rd Runner-up 2008 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition
CSE undergraduates the FYP team comprised of WONG Ka Ying, LAM Tsz Chiu and TONG Ho Yin who joined the 2008 Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition has got the third runner-up. The award-winning project is a language learning application called "How to write Chinese Characters? - Interesting Education Application for the Tablet PC Platform".
This project was supervised by Dr. Jogesh MUPPALA and was one of the Best Final Year Projects of 2007-08.
This is the third year of the Amway Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Universities IT Project Competition. The event is organized by the Jiangxi Federation of Computers, co-organized by Internet Professional Association (iProA) and sponsored by Amway (China) Limited Company. Through exhibiting the education achievements of the computer profession in Pan-PRD region, the competition promotes external and internal collaboration, foster a knowledge exchange platform to nurture ICT talents in respond to the market demand for ICT talents.
The first Amway Cup was organized in 2005 and it drew participants from the universities in Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macau. Amway (China) Co., Limited has been the sponsor of the competition ever since then. In 2006, the competition expanded its scope to cover the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region. Last year, it was co-organized by the computer federations of 9 provinces in the Pan-Pearl River Delta region, iProA, and Macau Computer Association and sponsored by Amway (China) Co., Limited.
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