BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Colombo BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T084407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0530 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+0530 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20060415T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0600 TZOFFSETTO:+0530 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3SA;BYMONTH=4 TZNAME:+0530 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210107T014029Z UID:2B440961-F766-41AC-86DC-EF61A9A1967F DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20200604T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Colombo:20200609T080000 DESCRIPTION:“Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tom orrow.” With never-ending news around the clock and shocking statistics\ , the moment we realized that COVID-19 has a long-lasting effect for years to come and the healthcare capacity in Sri Lanka is limited as well the r upee has hit an all-time low\, thought this would be the best time for the innovators in STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) f ields to come forward and tackle the issue before it gets worse. We\, IEEE student branch of University of Peradeniya accepted the challenge\, and i nitiated versusCOVID\, as a competition focusing on undergraduate students in Sri Lanka which takes the form of a hackathon. This became a great sol ution to minimize the impact of this pandemic outbreak in Sri Lanka and si multaneously brought our nation's innovative minds into the spotlight. The first step was to call for project proposals from interested undergraduat es who have an innovative vision on minimizing the effect of COVID-19 in S ri Lanka. The competitors were expected to work individually or as a team. Out of the project proposals we received\, 13 proposals were shortlisted and sent to further consideration. The proposals that moved onto this stag e were consist of many remarkable ideas such as\, A novel approach to stre amline home delivery of goods and products via a mobile application\, Dete ction and Disinfection Multi-Purpose Semi-Automated Robot\, An RFID activa ted band to track people in quarantine\, Modified Hazmat Suit With Control lable Inside Temperature\, Predict and Prioritize suspected COVID-19 patie nts using image processing and Deep Learning approaches\, A band which can track vital signs of humans\, A method to connect excess food sources wit h people in need during the COVID19 pandemic\, A solution that requires ze ro hand contact for opening and closing of doors\, An approach at developi ng vertical farming to overcome food shortages\, AI-Based Fever\, Face Mas k detection Camera and Door Access Control System\, Automated Sanitizer Sp rayer for general usage that can be installed\, An IoT Project where the v entilator is controlled remotely via a local area network and finally E-Le arning and Student Management platform. All the proposals reminded us that “Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lig hts to conquer it.” The judging panel of versusCOVID consisted of Facult y members from the Faculty of Engineering\, University of Peradeniya and r epresentatives from all our patron companies. There were a total of 16 jud ges representing different fields of study. The judges took the proposals into concern based on many different categories. After carefully evaluatin g the proposals\, Footsie\, Find Delivery and Modified Hazmat Suit were se lected as the best 3 ideas at the end of that phase. These 3 teams were aw arded cash prizes by London Stock Exchange. And the top 10 teams were sele cted for a one-on-one mentorship program with SLASSCOM Sri Lanka. They wil l be mentored to develop their ideas into Start-Up companies. All the team s who came up to the judging phase received a valuable e-certificate as an appreciation for bringing forward their innovative skills to help Sri Lan ka at this time of crisis.\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/25 5496 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/255496 ORGANIZER:ranitha@ieee.org SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:VersusCOVID Competition URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/255496 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>&ldquo\;Battling wolves today strengthens you for battling lions tomorrow.&rdquo\; With never-ending news around the clock and shocking statistics\, the moment we realized that COVID-19 has a long-lasting effect for years to come and the healthcare capacity in Sri Lanka is limited as well the rupee has hit an all-time low\, thought this would be the best time for the innovators in STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics) fields to come forward and tackle the issue before it gets worse. We\, IEEE student branch of University of Peradeniya accepted the challenge\, and initiated versusCOVID\, as a competition foc using on undergraduate students in Sri Lanka which takes the form of a hac kathon. This became a great solution to minimize the impact of this pandem ic outbreak in Sri Lanka and simultaneously brought our nation's innovativ e minds into the spotlight. The first step was to call for project proposa ls from interested undergraduates who have an innovative vision on minimiz ing the effect of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka. The competitors were expected to work individually or as a team. Out of the project proposals we received\, 13 proposals were shortlisted and sent to further consideration. The prop osals that moved onto this stage were consist of many remarkable ideas suc h as\, A novel approach to streamline home delivery of goods and products via a mobile application\, Detection and Disinfection Multi-Purpose Semi-A utomated Robot\, An RFID activated band to track people in quarantine\, Mo dified Hazmat Suit With Controllable Inside Temperature\, Predict and Prio ritize suspected COVID-19 patients using image processing and Deep Learnin g approaches\, A&nbsp\;band which can track vital signs of humans\, A meth od to connect excess food sources with people in need during the COVID19 p andemic\, A solution that requires zero hand contact for opening and closi ng of doors\, An approach at developing vertical farming to overcome food shortages\, AI-Based Fever\, Face Mask detection Camera and Door Access Co ntrol System\, Automated Sanitizer Sprayer for general usage that can be i nstalled\, An IoT Project where the ventilator is controlled remotely via a local area network and finally E-Learning and Student Management platfor m. All the proposals reminded us that &ldquo\;Life throws challenges and e very challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.&rdquo\; The j udging panel of versusCOVID consisted of Faculty members from the Faculty of Engineering\, University of Peradeniya and representatives from all our patron companies. There were a total of 16 judges representing different fields of study. The judges took the proposals into concern based on many different categories. After carefully evaluating the proposals\, Footsie\, Find Delivery and Modified Hazmat Suit were selected as the best 3 ideas at the end of that phase. These 3 teams were awarded cash prizes by London Stock Exchange. And the top 10 teams were selected for a one-on-one mento rship program with SLASSCOM Sri Lanka. They will be mentored to develop th eir ideas into Start-Up companies. All the teams who came up to the judgin g phase received a valuable e-certificate as an appreciation for bringing forward their innovative skills to help Sri Lanka at this time of crisis.< /p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR