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Professor Tiziana Margaria Course Director and Co-Director of ISE and Professor Kirsten Mey, President of UL pictured with Kishi Akinyemi (St Mel’s College, Longford) Picture: Don Moloney
An innovative Longford student, who developed a tool for licensing and securing patents, was honoured at the national awards ceremony for TECS (Technologists, Engineers, Creators, Scientists) at the University of Limerick.
TECS, which awards self-driven secondary school students for working on innovative projects, is an initiative of the Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course at UL, Patch, the summer programme for young entrepreneurs and the Irish Computer Society.
St Mel's College student Kishi Akinyemi won second place for his project IPBOX which is a tool for licensing and securing patents.
Kishi accepted his award from Professor Tiziana Margaria Course Director and Co-Director of ISE and Professor Kirsten Mey, President of UL.
The ceremony saw €5,000 awarded to the winners and their schools.
Caption: Professor Tiziana Margaria Course Director and Co-Director of ISE and Professor Kirsten Mey, President of UL pictured with Surabhi Sathish (Loreto College, Kilkenny) won third place for her project which used AI to automatically identify and sort rubbish, Samir Bioud (Rice College, Ennis) won first place for developing a compiler for his own programming language, called Quinoa and Kishi Akinyemi (St Mell’s College, Longford), won second place for IPBOX, a tool for licensing and securing patents. Picture: Don Moloney
Samir Bioud (Rice College, Ennis) won first place for developing a compiler for his own programming language, called Quinoa.
Kishi was second and Surabhi Sathish (Loreto College, Kilkenny) won third place for her project which used AI to automatically identify and sort rubbish.
TECS is in its second year running https://software-engineering.ie/
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