E-Swabhimani Awards 2014
e-Swabhimani is an initiative of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka aimed at recognizing excellence in digital content creation. 5th e-Swabhimani Awards ceremony was held on 5th November 2014. UCSC was the winners in the e-Science and Technology category. The winning product was ‘Siyara’ Harbour Vessel Traffic Management System. UCSC also won the e-Government and […]
Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA) 2013
Y.M Kalindu Priyadarshana from the UCSC won a Merit Award for this final year individual project title “Sensing Environment Through Mobile : A Personalized Wearable Obstacle Detection System for Visually Impaired” at APICTA 2013 held from 24-27 November 2013 in Hong Kong. Kalindu was among the Six Merit Awards winners at APICTA 2013 from Sri […]
All Island Inter University Best Speaker Competition 2013
Praveen Samarakone (2011/CS/199) emerged as the second runner up at the All Island Inter University Best Speaker Competition 2013 organized by the Gavel Club of University of Kelaniya. The finals of the competition was held on the 26th of September 2013 from 4pm onward at the University of Kelaniya premises. Further information pertaining to the […]
Inter University Innovations Championship 2013
Automated Guided Wheelchair by Yasith Lokuge, Prashan Madumal, Tharindu Kumara & N. Ranasinghe was placed 1st Runners-up at Inter University Innovations Championship 2013 held on 21st February 2014 at the UCSC. The Indoor Navigation Framework proposed allows any wheelchair user to be guided to a desired location inside a building, if building floors have UV […]
UCSC Wins Overall Gold At NBQSA 2013
UCSC won the OVERALL GOLD at the National Best Quality ICT Awards held on 17th October 2013 at Kingsbury Hotel. Among the 146 participants at the NBQSA 2013, 47 were commercial products from the local ICT industry and 99 were Students Projects by undergraduate and Postgraduate Students. SIYARA – Harbour VTMS (New dimension in Port Traffic […]
Unilever Challenge – Lipton Talent Hunt 2013
UCSC Students were placed 1st Runners Up at Unilever Challenge – Lipton Talent Hunt 2013 held at Cinnamon Grand, Colombo on 30th November 2013. The UCSC team members were Praveen Samarakone (2011/CS/199) Supun Muthutantri (2011/CS/039) Nadeesha Lakmini (2011/ICT/029) Shujan Suntharalingam(2011/ICS/038)The competition consisted of three round. Round 1 35 teams competed. Next stage was the semi […]
The UCSC Recognized At The UNESCO ICT In Education Innovation Awards 2007-2008
The e-BIT programme of the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) won a Certificate of Commendation in the Education Planner and Administrator Category of the UNESCO ICT in Education Innovation Awards 2007-2008. Winners of Awards and certificates were short listed based on their responses to the questions “Do you use ICT in your teaching […]