KARACHI: Students who presented the idea of eAnalaytic, an electrical analytical system to reduce cost of electricity for a common user, bagged the top award at Usman Institute of Technology’s annual Virtual Innovation Competition.
According to a statement released by UIT, the competition named VIC’18 focused on the agenda of motivating IT students and encouraging them to pitch their innovative ideas.
Students namely Ahmed Abdullah, Syed Ali Hamza and Osama Asif won the top award at the competition while Hammad Fatmi, Arsalan Nasir, Osama Mehmood and Salman Khalid were declared first runner ups for their Safe Journey idea.
Shaiq ul Hassan and Agha Muhammad Hassan won the third prize for coming up with the idea of Anatomy 3D, a 3D animation platform for medical students and doctors.
The competition consisted of two rounds, one of which was pitching the idea in front of the guests and the other was of presenting the business model.
There were 40 exceptional ideas registered in the event.
About the competition
The Virtual innovation Competition consists of a couple of rounds.
- Round-One
- Round-Two
Round one
Round one comprises of two minutes, only two minutes to prove your worth in front of judges where each participant has a chance to pitch their ideas respectively. After hearing out what the candidates has on their minds now here comes the judgmental part where out of 40 innovative minds only 5 are left out in the spotlight of the competition which would go on to the next round
Round Two
Round two is more of pictorial representation of your ideas, as in a presentation form where you elaborate each aspect of your ideas so that judges can easily and righteously extract the top three ideas in terms of winner, runner-up #1 & runner-up #2 respectively, round two has 5 minutes and 5 minutes are more than enough to catch or attract the judges to reckon your idea as top notch one.
