Wireless Java Jam 2004 Participation
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8th of January 2004, our students took part in the
Wireless Java Jam held at the Victoria Theatre.
The Wireless Java Jam is a Java™2 Platform
Micro Edition (J2ME™) Entrepreneur Development
Programme targeted at Institutes of Higher Learning
(IHL) and organized by the Java Wireless Competency
Centre (JWCC). The aim is to encourage innovation
and promote entrepreneurship among students in
building J2ME wireless technology and a comprehensive
wireless business
400 students from eight tertiary institutions
pit their Java Programming skills against one another
to produce innovative and exciting applications
for Java™ enabled mobile phones.
Republic Polytechnic’s first year SIT students
formed 3 teams and after going through months of
training, brainstorming and programming, submitted
their first wireless mobile applications.
1. Dic’saurus : Mobile Dictionary and Thesaurus
application
2. E-bus : Mobile Bus Guide and Information application
3. Smart Mobile : Application to Top up Ezlink
and Calling card via handphone
The students were required to give a short presentation
of their applications to a panel of judges few
days before the event. On the day itself, they
took part in the Code Jam Competition which required
them to come up with a mobile application within
4 hours after being given a theme on the spot.
In addition, a booth was set up to promote the
applications to handset vendors, sponsors and
all participants
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The booth was set up with an artistic touch |
Republic Polytechnic’s attractive booth
at the Wireless Java Jam’s Market Place |
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Four of our students
took part in the Code Jam and attempted to
come up with an application from scratch
within 4 hours. The theme was “Tourism”. |
They also had to present
their application to the judges for the Code
Jam Competition |
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students were much more relaxed at the booth
after the stressful morning session. |
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One of the students also demonstrated our
application to Mrs Tan Ching Yee, CEO of Infocomm
Development Authority of Singapore |
Mr Tay Kheng Tiong, Director
of SIT, was presented with a plaque for Republic
Polytechnic’s
participation in Wireless Java Jam 2004 |
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Inspired, we would return and
do better next year! |
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