Calcey Hackathon 2012
University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) team comprising of three undergraduates, namely Pankajan Chanthirasegaran, Dinuni Fernando and Sanjaya Amarasinghe from the 3rd year Bachelor of Computer Science degree programme became the runner up at the Hackathon competition organised by Calcey Technologies. Student-teams from six universities (Moratuwa – CSE & IT, UCSC, APIIT, SLIIT, Kelaniya MIT) competed with each other to prove their software development skills. The event was held on the 19th May to 20th May at Calcey premises and was won by SLIIT team. Awards ceremony will to be held on 15 June 2012 at Waters Edge.
The challenge in this competition was to hack togerther a piece of working software in 2 days. Technologies used were Python, Java or PHP, Google App Engine, Android, Linux. The product was a mash-up application for a simple real-life requirement. Each team consisted of 3 undergraduates nominated by the staff of the faculty.