Students develop solutions for real-life issues in hackathon finals

Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Systems & Analytics, News Media, Student

NUS Computing students Xavier Xie, Rebecca Tan, Victoria Teo, Vincent Leow and Teo Kai Cheng won first place in the university category of Build On, Singapore 2019 Hackathon. The hackathon, jointly organised by Amazon Web Services, NUS and the Government Technology Agency, drew 51 entries from students across various institutions in Singapore.

The Straits Times, 25 September 2019

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