Yarl Geek Challenge: Round 1

Yarl Geek Challenge started with inauguration ceremony on October 13 at Sarvodaya District Center of Jaffna. 14 teams from various universities and institutions proposed their project ideas. Each team came with number of ideas but they had to propose any one idea which they want within 6 minutes.

We had three ideas. Those are:

•  Mobile based Tourist Guide Application: 

  Develop a mobile based tourist guide application for Jaffna. Using our system users can find the nearest popular or historical places based on their locations and also they can get details about available services such as accommodation, transport services and other services like banking and ATM, fuel stations near to the selected location.

• Walking Guide for Blind People:
  Develop a mobile based application to provide walk guidance for blind people. It will provide voice based interaction facility to the user. User can use the application through voice command and get the instructions of the direction for their destination as voice instructions.

•   School Reporting System:
  Develop a database management system to manage the school reporting system. Using this system user can maintain student’s marks details, perform analysis of marks and they can generate the reports of the students.

From these we chose the idea “Mobile based Tourist Guide Application” to propose. When we proposed this idea we got some advice from judging panel. We will modify our project according to their advice and discussion with our mentor.

After finishing the proposals, introduction for each round was given by experts who designed the respective round through presentations. And also they explain about what are things are expected through those rounds.