BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Calcutta BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:19451014T230000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0630 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 TZNAME:IST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181012T012540Z UID:B074998A-506D-46FA-8829-464E6253DFDB DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Calcutta:20180908T084500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Calcutta:20180909T170000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE SS12 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT COMPETITION AND MAKER FAIR 2018 \n\nThe fourth edition of SS12 ASIA: AGE OF INNOVATION 2018\, a Coding and Making Challenge jointly organized by Madras IEEE Education Society\, Pro ject Possibility and REAL Breakthrough was hosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management) Green University Town\, Homagama\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka by IEEE Sri Lanka section on 8th and 9th of September 2018 in partne rship with Universities and leading technology industry companies across A sia Pacific\, UAE\, Africa and Afganisthan. The challenge is conducted ann ually to recognize the best social innovation application and this year th e theme given was:\n\n‘EMPATHY TO ENGINEERING: SOLUTIONS FOR MACROISSUES ’\n\nThe theme Empathy to Engineering aims to create a platform for the Engineering Students and professionals to learn Design Thinking the enjoya ble way at the same time governed by rules and regulations. The domains se lected were the areas covered by UN Sustainable Development Goals addressi ng the issues like Poverty and Famine\, Disaster Management and first aid\ , Special Needs\, Women Safety\, Healthcare\, Illiteracy and so on.\n\nUnd er this the projects were solicited as Mobile Apps or Computer Based or Io T based systems.\n\nThe event was conducted in four tracks –\n\nINNOVATI ON CHALLENGE: Pilots were called for and thirty pilots registered from 8 c ountries. They conducted prelims of the innovation challenge at their plan ned dates and one team was selected as winner. The winner was selected on the basis of the Creativity\, novelty and usefulness to society.\n\nMAKER FAIR: Maker Fair track is organized to help the students display their tec hnical skills and team work. Under this abstracts will be called for and e valuated for their social usefulness and ability to be converted into a pr oduct.\n\nSS12 JUNIOR EINSTEIN TRACK:\n\nFresh minds cater for fresh innov ations in the domains untouched and for the issues unresolved. School chil dren with innovative ideas were invited to submit projects on the theme gi ven.\n\nSS12 VIRTUAL TRACK:\n\nParticipants who cannot reach the venue phy sically were invited to register for virtual track to present their projec ts online. This track is introduced for the countries for which pilots are not available.\n\nThe finals were conducted to a huge 400 plus number of participants\, out of which 301 were IEEE members\, from all the above cou ntries with all different tracks planned meticulously. A volunteer force o f above 100 young professionals from India\, Sri Lanka\, Pakistan\, Bangla desh and USA worked towards making it a grand success.\n\nSpeakers were in vited from the above countries as well as juries. The total number of proj ects for the finals were around 140 on all tracks put together. The topics discussed on invited talks by speakers from industry and academia varied from the theme of the event to innovation basics\, how to commercialize th e projects and so on.\n\n- Zia Ahmed :Chair\, IEEE Australia Council (201 7-2018) & R10 EXCOM Member (2007 – 2016)\n- Parkash Lohana :Associate P rofessor and Head of Computer Science at Usman Institute of Technology Kar achi\, Pakistan\n- Divyanshu Verma :Senior Manager Software Development - Intel Corporation\n- P. A. Manoharan :Chairperson - IEEE Madras Section\n - S. Salivahanan : Chairperson - IEEE Signal Processing Society\, Chennai Chapter\, Madras Section\n- Chris Doering : Cross-disciplinary Designer a nd Innovation Consultant\, Ventura Frontier Lanka\, Co-Founder - Open Desi gn City\, Berlin\n- Dileeka Dias : Dean - Faculty of Graduate Studies\, U niversity of Moratuwa\n- (Eng.) Nalin Karunasinghe : Consultant R&D - JLan ka Technologies\, Former Senior Lecturer - Department of Computer Science and Engineering\, University of Moratuwa\n- Jehan Wijesinghe : Co-Founder and CEO - IgniterSpace\n\nThe two days marked a high quality tech time for all the people concerned and the prizes were distributed for the differen t tracks to the tune of three prizes each with $1000 as the first prize\, $500 as the second prize and $300 as the third prize. The event was consid ered as one of the most vibrant events with 500 plus people ranging from s chool children to engineering graduates and mentors and teachers flocking around the 100 plus projects exhibited and presented\, all vying with each other to produce best solutions for social issues.\n\nThe event ended wit h the promise of the next edition of the event being hosted by Stamford Un iversity\, Thailand.\n\nCo-sponsored by: R00133 - Madras Section\n\nAgenda : \nProjects presented in each track and the winners are given below:\n\nS .No\n\nTrack\n\nNo of Projects\n\nNo of participants\n\nNo of countries\n\ nWinning project\n\nUniversity\n\n1\n\nInnovation Challenge\n\n17\n\n47\n\ n8\n\nTWO MODE PNEUMATIC DAMPING PROSTHETIC LEG FOR ABOVE-KNEE AMPUTEES\n\ nMES College of Engineering\, Kerala\, India\n\n2\n\nMaker fair\n\n34\n\n1 10\n\n6\n\nAugmented Reality Education (AR-Vidhya)\n\nIndian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)\, Nagpur. India\n\n3\n\nJunior Einstein\n\n2 7\n\n83\n\n3\n\n1. Blind Walker\n\n2. Safety App\n\n1. Royal College\, Sri Lanka\n\n2. Mahatma Montessori K.K. Nagar\, India\n\n4\n\nVirtual Track\n \n60\n\n180\n\n7\n\nSmart Band for Sr.Citizens\n\nUniversity of Dhaka\, Ba ngladesh\n\nhosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management) Green University Town\, Homagama\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka\, Sri Lanka LOCATION:hosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management) Green Univ ersity Town\, Homagama\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka\, Sri Lanka ORGANIZER:ramalatha.marimuthu@gmail.com SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:IEEE SS12 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT COMPETITION AND MAKER FAIR 2018 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/178989 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>&nbsp\;IEEE SS12 INTERNATIONAL PRO JECT COMPETITION AND MAKER FAIR 2018</strong></p>\n<p>The fourth edition o f SS12 ASIA: AGE OF INNOVATION 2018\, a Coding and Making Challenge jointl y organized by Madras IEEE Education Society\, Project Possibility and REA L Breakthrough was hosted in NSBM (National School of Business Management) Green University Town\, Homagama\, Colombo\, Sri Lanka by IEEE Sri Lanka section on 8<sup>th</sup> and 9<sup>th</sup> of September 2018 in partners hip with Universities and leading technology industry companies across Asi a Pacific\, UAE\, Africa and Afganisthan. The challenge is conducted annua lly to recognize the best social innovation application and this year the theme given was:</p>\n<p>&lsquo\;<strong>EMPATHY TO ENGINEERING: SOLUTIONS FOR MACROISSUES</strong>&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>The theme Empathy to Engineering aims to create a platform for the Engineering Students and professionals to learn Design Thinking the enjoyable way at the same time governed by ru les and regulations.&nbsp\; The domains selected were the areas covered by UN Sustainable Development Goals addressing the issues like Poverty and F amine\, Disaster Management and first aid\, Special Needs\, Women Safety\, Healthcare\, Illiteracy and so on.</p>\n<p>Under this the projects were s olicited as <strong>Mobile Apps or Computer Based or IoT based systems.</s trong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>The event was conducted in four tracks &ndash\;</p>\n<p><strong>INNOVATION CHALLENGE:</strong> Pilot s were called for and thirty pilots registered from 8 countries. They cond ucted prelims of the innovation challenge at their planned dates and one t eam was selected as winner. The winner was selected on the basis of the Cr eativity\, novelty and usefulness to society.</p>\n<p><strong>MAKER FAIR:< /strong> Maker Fair track is organized to help the students display their technical skills and team work. Under this abstracts will be called for an d evaluated for their social usefulness and ability to be converted into a product.</p>\n<p><strong>SS12 JUNIOR EINSTEIN TRACK:</strong></p>\n<p>Fre sh minds cater for fresh innovations in the domains untouched and for the issues unresolved. School children with innovative ideas were invited to s ubmit projects on the theme given.</p>\n<p><strong>SS12 VIRTUAL TRACK:</st rong></p>\n<p>Participants who cannot reach the venue physically were invi ted to register for virtual track to present their projects online. This t rack is introduced for the countries for which pilots are not available.</ p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The finals were conducted to a huge 400 plus number of participants\, out of which 301 were IEEE members\, from all the above countries with all different tracks planned meticulously. A volunteer for ce of above 100 young professionals from India\, Sri Lanka\, Pakistan\, Ba ngladesh and USA worked towards making it a grand success.</p>\n<p>Speaker s were invited from the above countries as well as juries. The total numbe r of projects for the finals were around 140 on all tracks put together. T he topics discussed on invited talks by speakers from industry and academi a varied from the theme of the event to innovation basics\, how to commerc ialize the projects &nbsp\;and so on.</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Zia Ahmed :< /strong>Chair\, IEEE Australia Council (2017-2018) &amp\; R10 EXCOM Member (2007 &ndash\; 2016)</li>\n<li><strong> Parkash Lohana :</strong>Associat e Professor and Head of Computer Science at Usman Institute of Technology Karachi\, Pakistan</li>\n<li><strong>Divyanshu Verma :</strong>Senior Mana ger Software Development - Intel Corporation</li>\n<li><strong> P. A. Mano haran :</strong>Chairperson - IEEE Madras Section</li>\n<li><strong> S. Sa livahanan :&nbsp\;</strong>Chairperson - IEEE Signal Processing Society\, Chennai Chapter\, Madras Section</li>\n<li><strong>Chris Doering :&nbsp\;& nbsp\;&nbsp\;</strong>Cross-disciplinary Designer and Innovation Consultan t\, Ventura Frontier Lanka\,&nbsp\;Co-Founder - Open Design City\, Berlin< /li>\n<li><strong> Dileeka Dias :&nbsp\;</strong>Dean - Faculty of Graduat e Studies\, University of Moratuwa</li>\n<li><strong>(Eng.) Nalin Karunasi nghe :&nbsp\;</strong>Consultant R&amp\;D - JLanka Technologies\, Former S enior Lecturer - Department of Computer Science and Engineering\, Universi ty of Moratuwa</li>\n<li><strong>Jehan Wijesinghe :&nbsp\;</strong>Co-Foun der and CEO - IgniterSpace</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The two days marked a high qual ity tech time for all the people concerned and the prizes were distributed for the different tracks to the tune of three prizes each with $1000 as t he first prize\, $500 as the second prize and $300 as the third prize. The event was considered as one of the most vibrant events with 500 plus peop le ranging from school children to engineering graduates and mentors and t eachers flocking around the 100 plus projects exhibited and presented\, al l vying with each other to produce best solutions for social issues.</p>\n <p>The event ended with the promise of the next edition of the event being hosted by Stamford University\, Thailand.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p >Projects presented in each track and the winners are given below:</p>\n<t able width="699">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width="57">\n<p>S.No</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>Track</p>\n</td>\n<td width="76">\n<p>No of Projects</p> \n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>No of participants</p>\n</td>\n<td width="85 ">\n<p>No of countries</p>\n</td>\n<td width="151">\n<p>Winning project</p >\n</td>\n<td width="123">\n<p>University</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td wid th="57">\n<p>1</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>Innovation Challenge</p>\n </td>\n<td width="76">\n<p>17</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>47</p>\n</t d>\n<td width="85">\n<p>8</p>\n</td>\n<td width="151">\n<p>TWO MODE PNEUMA TIC DAMPING PROSTHETIC LEG FOR ABOVE-KNEE AMPUTEES</p>\n</td>\n<td width=" 123">\n<p>MES College of Engineering\, Kerala\, India</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n< tr>\n<td width="57">\n<p>2</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>Maker fair</p> \n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n</td>\n<td width="76">\n<p>34</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104 ">\n<p>110</p>\n</td>\n<td width="85">\n<p>6</p>\n</td>\n<td width="151">\ n<p>Augmented Reality Education (AR-Vidhya)</p>\n</td>\n<td width="123">\n <p>Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT)\, Nagpur. India</p>\n </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width="57">\n<p>3</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p >Junior Einstein</p>\n</td>\n<td width="76">\n<p>27</p>\n</td>\n<td width= "104">\n<p>83</p>\n</td>\n<td width="85">\n<p>3</p>\n</td>\n<td width="151 ">\n<p>1. Blind Walker</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>2. Safety A pp</p>\n</td>\n<td width="123">\n<p>1. Royal College\, Sri Lanka</p>\n<p>2 . Mahatma Montessori K.K. Nagar\, India</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td width ="57">\n<p>4</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>Virtual Track</p>\n</td>\n<t d width="76">\n<p>60</p>\n</td>\n<td width="104">\n<p>180</p>\n</td>\n<td width="85">\n<p>7</p>\n</td>\n<td width="151">\n<p>Smart Band for Sr.Citiz ens</p>\n</td>\n<td width="123">\n<p>University of Dhaka\, Bangladesh</p>\ n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR