SLIIT students clinch two awards

Pramadhi Attapattu Arachchi, Mithra Mayadunne, Jayaruwan Rupasinghe and Dineth Cooray, Winners of the Silver Award under the Tertiary category

A third year student at SLIIT, Ganindu Nanayakkara clinched the Gold award his innovative 'iHelmet', under the Tertiary Student Category at the National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) recently.

The 'iHelmet' is a special helmet to empower ground forces in the battlefield.

Gold, the Silver award, under the same category, was also won by a team of final year students at SLIIT for their project 'Panacea's Jacket'. Pramadhi Attapattu Arachchi, Mithra Mayadunne, Jayaruwan Rupasinghe and Dineth Cooray, were the team members.

NBQSA is an annual competition which is organised by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, Sri Lanka Section, to recognise and create a window for international appreciation for innovators in the ICT industry, and to showcase and benchmark Sri Lankan ICT products.

NBQSA is the only national competition of its type in Sri Lanka which has been, since 1998, recognising people and organisations for their outstanding contributions to the development of ICT Industry in Sri Lanka.

Among the 146 entries at NBQSA 2013, 47 were commercial products from the local ICT industry and 99 were student projects by undergraduates.