iDEA Hackathon 2013 Winners Announced at Tinapa Calabar

Lagos, Nigeria, 07 August 2013: Barely 16 weeks after Information Technology Developers Entrepreneurship Accelerator (iDEA) launched its first pilot Incubation Centre in Lagos, the second Pilot Centre in the programme was launched on Friday, 2nd of August 2013 in Calabar, Cross River state. The centre is located in the Tinapa Knowledge City in Calabar.

The event was kicked off with the Hackathon competition - a 42-hour App building competition in which the 27 contestants who came from different parts of the country to participate were grouped into a teams of 2 and 3 (a total of 10 teams)to build their choice of software application within 42 hours. The Hackathon competition was facilitated by the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON).

Team Two emerged as winners, and were presented with N450, 000 cash prizeand 3 Nokia Lumia phones during the launch of the centre on Friday, August 2, 2013.The team developed a software App called Le-Media – an App that allows you to combine learning with entertainment.
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