FUT Mina, OAU Emerge Top Winners of Software Competition

Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna and the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife have emerged top winners of the 2012 Software Competition organised for students of tertiary institutions by the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).
Announcing the result at the Tinapa Business Resort, in Calabar, Cross River State, venue of ISPON’s annual conference, the judges, said the students were examined through their entries, which they submitted for the competition.     

Students from the Federal University of Technology, Minna, won the grand prize of the 2012 ISPON software competition, while students of Team 1 and Team II from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, emerged second and third positions respectively.

The winners were selected based on the quality of solution presented, its relevance to the Nigerian society, and capacity to solve local problems for the ordinary in society, as well as the extent of work and creativity demonstrated in the solution.

The team members from FUT, Minna that won the grand prize, were Olofu Mark and Temitope Oguntade.
Their entry, tagged ‘One School’, is a one-stop solution that provides generic and unified solution to support e-learning, e-teaching and e-school administration.

Teams 1 from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, got the second position with the entry tagged ‘DoTheMaths’, which is a mobile game application that supports informal self-learning of arithmetic computations using basic mobile phones. The team members were Akinboyewa Akindolani, Abdul-Rahma Shitu, and Nnanna Eze.

Team II from the same Obafemi Awolowo University, won the third prize with the entry ‘GMBox’, which is a media cloud application, with a browser-based application that provides a remote cloud based media organiser and player that leverages on cloud storage accessible on the go. The team members were Oseroke Igwubor, Olubukola Aborode, and Oyewale Oyediran

Apart from the three best overall positions, there were other categories of the completion that were won by other students.
The ‘Best Mobile Software Application Developer of the Year’ was won by Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (Team I), with the mobile game application entry ‘DoTheMaths’. Evaluation for this category was limited to only applications that operate on mobile devices such as iOS, Android, RIM, Palm, and Mobile Windows.

Federal University of Technology, Akure won the ‘Clement Ndukwe Cup for the Most Creative Software of the Year’, with the entry, ‘Eye Drive’, which is a security and driving system application solution. The team members were Olaoluwa Aboluwarin, Mofesola Banjo, and Oluwadara Oladapo.

Federal University of Technology, Minna, won the ‘Prof. Cleopas Angaye Cup for the best Open Source Software Developer of the Year’, with the entry ‘One School’, which is a solution that provides generic and unified solution to support e-learning, e-teaching and e-school administration. The team members were Olofu Mark, and Temitope Oguntade

Abia State Polytechnic, Abia, won the ‘NITDA Cup for Best Software Design Architecture & Documentation for the Year’, with the entry ‘NAGRO SOL’, which is an Agricultural application solution that supports loan administration for farmers and marketing of farm produce. The team members were Anslem Nkoro Ire, Chinagorom Alex Chikwendi, and Marcus Okwu Eke.

Excited with the performances of the students from OAU, Prof. Sola Aderounmu, a lecturer at the Computer Science Department, told THISDAY that his students did very well to have attained the second and third positions. He promised that his students will emerge the overall best at the 2013 software competition