Smart launches 11th SWEEP Awards
Wireless leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) announced the opening of the 11th Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (SWEEP) Innovation and Excellence Awards, incorporating for the first time, a mobile apps competition that is open to all college students nationwide.
With the theme, “Building Cloud-based Communities”, Smart’s SWEEP Awards continues to provide college students with the platform to develop and create innovative mobile applications that provide solutions to existing consumer pain points. The SWEEP Awards is the longest-running and biggest technology competition in the country. It is open to college students from SWEEP partner-schools from all over the country.
For this year’s run, Smart is accepting students from non-SWEEP schools to participate via the open competition on mobile apps development, and compete for the Smart DevNet Innovation Award.
Under this new category, special awards will be given to teams or students from SWEEP and non-SWEEP schools whose entries satisfy the criteria set by the Smart Developer Network (Smart DevNet), the telco’s developer community program targeted at developers on desktop and mobile platforms.
SmartDevNet will be choosing the top five entries with up to P250,000 in cash prizes to be given away. The winning mobile apps will also have a path to commercialization. Interested parties have until November 7 to submit a working mobile app. For more details, visit https://smartdevnetsweepx2014.eventbrite.com and use smartdevnet as password to access the site.
For the 11th SWEEP Awards, Smart will require participating teams from SWEEP partner-schools to develop cloud-based applications that are innovative, community-based, sustainable, and technology-focused.Â
Cloud-based apps run on the Web rather than on computer programs. With servers on the Web, everything is done on the Internet, and all files are saved on the “Cloud”. The cloud-based system is more affordable since there is no need to maintain information technology infrastructure and hardware, and provides mobile access to data through Internet-capable devices. It helps users deliver more efficient and resourceful work outputs.
Each SWEEP partner-school may submit up to 10 entries for the SWEEP Awards. Just like in previous years, entries will go through a rigorous five-step screening process of online registration, project concept video presentation, validation, bootcamp, and final judging.
The grand champion will win a cash prize of P500,000, while the second- and third-placers will win P200,000, and P100,000, respectively. Equivalent amounts in the form of grants will also be given to the schools of the winning teams.
SWEEP is the first-of-its-kind partnership between the industry and the academe that seeks to enhance engineering and IT education in the Philippines. For more information about the 11th SWEEP Awards and the SWEEP Mobile Apps Open Competition, click on www.smartsweep.ph and www.smartsweep.ph/open. [END]
