College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2020 60 driving TeCh innovaTions Through haCKaThon As part of its initiatives aimed at driving technology innovations in November 2020, the Technopreneurship Centre in collaboration with the Pan African Information Communication Technology Association (PAICTA) hosted a Virtual Hackathon Challenge that was open to all UJ students. In line with the theme of the Hackathon, ‘Finding solutions through digital collaboration, students worked in groups consisting of members from different study disciplines. The event was highly supported by mentors from the industry such as CISCO, FNB, BMW, Iderto, HERE Technologies, Custodient Advisory Services, DFA, Geekculcha, and CSIR. The overall winning team was the Young Innovator’s Tech, which consisted of Daun Ramulongo (Business Management and Administration student), Saad Rahman (BSc Computer Science student), Lesego Legodi (BEng Electrical and Electronic Engineering student), Tshegofatso Motshwane (Bachelor of Education student) and Peter Maphalla (Bachelor of Education in Senior and FET Teaching student). delTa airline innovaTion CamP On 13th March 2020, the Department of Applied Information Systems (AIS) in collaboration with Junior Achievement South Africa (JA South Africa), hosted a Delta Airline sponsored innovation camp for 100 students studying different programs in the Department. During the camp, students were presented with unique scenarios requiring them to come up with innovative solutions to address business challenges. Leading industry experts drawn from different organisations, including, Delta, IBM, Microsoft, Project Management Institute (PMI), Nelson Mandela Foundation as well as Marsh & McLennan Companies served as mentors. Each member of the winning team received a Samsung tablet as part of their prize as well as a fully paid week-long project management course from PMI.
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