MillenniumIT’s software competition for Sri Lankans

Millennium Information Technologies (MillenniumIT) last week opened its web portals to accepting submissions from school aged participants and others competing to write a software robot using a programming language that can safely pick up valuables from a wrecked spaceship.

Millennium All-Island Robot Competition (MARC) is a software competition open to all Sri Lankans. The competition which will take place over four months will enable competitors to design an algorithm to navigate a spaceship using the robot’s vision and implement the algorithm using Applications Programming Interfaces (API’s) available in all popular programming languages.

There are two categories in the competition enabling both school level competitors (under age 18) and open (over age 18) competitors to show their coding skills. One million rupees will be given in cash prizes to the first three winning entries in both categories. To enter the competition and for further details, visit the website www.marc.lk, the company said.

“From the inception of MillenniumIT we have given our employees the opportunity to excel in innovation by giving them free hand to demonstrate their talent,” says Tony Weeresinghe, CEO of Millennium Information Technologies. “We believe it is time to extend this opportunity to the younger generation so they have a chance to develop their creativity and achieve technological excellence.”

Since 1996 MillenniumIT has actively partnered with the University of Moratuwa in supporting a series of Computer Science and Electronics events. From March 2004 the company also provided scholarships and sponsorships to deserving students at the University. The company has also hired interns from Informatics Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Moratuwa and Colombo, in an effort to educate, inform and expose the next generation of workers in the fields of Information Technology and Software.