Teleios Code Jam 2011
Teleios Code Jam this year comprised three stages of competition guided by this year’s motto: "Code. Present. Build ." The final event took place on Friday October 21 2011 at the JFK Lecture Theatre at UWI’s St Augustine campus. This year three new companies partnered with Teleios for this event. Illuminat was the sponsor of the first prize, Fujitsu sponsored the third prize and Digicel offered a special prize for the solution with the best SMS component. Microsoft has provided support to the competition since inception and did so again this year as second prize sponsor and Mario’s once again sponsored lunch for the participants.
Teams from the University of the West Indies, University of the Southern Caribbean and School of Business and Computer Science submitted solutions for stage 1 based on the theme “Using information technology to facilitate development in a multi-state region.”
Eight teams advanced to event day where they presented on the solutions that they had submitted previously and participated in a quick challenge.
The judging panel for the presentations consisted of Bevil Wooding (Teleios Systems), Anand Singh (Teleios Systems), Crisen Maharaj (Business Development Company), William Bhola (Illuminat) and Darren Mohammed (Microsoft).Team Unbeatable (Niall Johnson, Akash Harriram, Hasani Holder and Keisha Mark) selected the solution that best incorporated SMS.