Students Awarded By SPH Magazines For Fresh Digital Ideas In Ignite

Singapore Press Holdings Magazines (SPHM) held a digital crowd-sourcing competition together with Singapore Computer Society (SCS) Interactive Digital Media and Student Chapters called Ignite 2010. The competition’s deadline was 31st Dec 2010 but the award ceremony was held just two days ago. Ignite 2010 called on tertiary students to submit fresh ideas for digitizing SPHM’s publications. We look here at some of the winning teams.

As one of the judges from SCS, I witnessed the submission of many interesting ideas from GPS fashion finder, augmented reality watches, iPad travel journals, mobile gadget finders, to digital home planners. The top three prizes were awarded on 1st April at SPH Auditorium in Genting Lane.

Team DustByte from Nanyang Polytechnic won the contest with a droid designer for Home and Decor Magazine that incorporated QR Codes and features similar to augmented reality.

DustByte was overall winner and also winner of the special Sony Ericsson Android prize.

Besides their top prize of a Canon IXUS 300 HS and MSI U135DX netbook each, DustByte members also won a Xperia™ arc phone each for winning the Sony Ericsson Android special prize.

Team NPkodan from Ngee Ann Polytechnic won 1st Runner-up for their Home and Decor online portal submission which includes an online marketplace and online home designer amongst many new ideas.

Team NPkodan making a passionate presentation.