Playing Basket Ball after a while

Well got an invitation to watch a Basket Ball tournament organized by SLIIT. And in the evening had an opportunity to play a game as well. It felt nice to play after a while although it was pretty hard because I was playing after a long time. Somehow we won the match and tomorrow we are playing the semi finals and chances of winning it seems pretty good.

SLIIT Open Day 2008

Went to SLIIT after a long while , SLIIT Open Day was held on 19th and we were going to get some certificates for winning the gold in NBQSA and winning the gold in APICTA which is a good thing because as far as I can remember we didn't get any certificate other than the trophy. As usual lots of stalls from IT companies were there , people seem to like IFS because according Suckitha who was at the IFS stall there were around 300 applications. As you can expect after kicking out around 300 employees Virtuas was not that popular. Since I went to SLIIT got the transcripts as well , it wasn't easy since I had to go first floor , then to ninth floor and then back to first floor. Why can't they keep all of them in one place is a mystery to me. Well they gave us some nice big SLIIT envelopes so can't fault them that much.

The award ceremony started around 4.30 and the chief guest seems to be pretty impressed by the discipline shown by SLIIT students. How he came to that conclusion by just visiting SLIIT for two to three hours is a bit hard to understand but it was nice to see that he was impressed. I think the reason for no unnecessary incidents in SLIIT is people come here after paying.After completing the diploma they usually find a job so they simply don't have time to get involved in incidents. People who have nothing to do are usually the people who starts trouble.
Year 2007 was a good year for SLIIT , they won the NBQSA , APICTA and Techno2007. They came runners up in the imagine cup and SLIIT staff also excelled with SLIIT awarded with the best Cisco Academy in Asia or something like that. SLIIT started with a good note in 2008 as well winning the ISACA IT Security awards for the research category. And if rumours are true SLIIT have won this years NBQSA as well.

SLIIT wins another award for best use of Microsoft technologies in NBQSA

I guess when good news comes they tend to come in a heap , If you were following this blog you should know that SLIIT won both the gold and the silver awards for student projects in NBQSA. This alone was a great achievement for SLIIT , But the Tripwire project which won the gold medal won another award for the best use of Microsoft Technologies. If you guys are tired of hearing the good news I'm sorry to disappoint you since theres more good news. The Tripwire project was nominated to represent Sri Lanka in Asia Pacific ICT awards ( APICTA ) to be held in Singapore. Normally BCS - Sri Lanka section only nominates one project to participate in APICTA for a certain category , but one of the judges who were in the panel that decided the winners were also impressed of the project that won the silver medal. So he has come forward to sponsor the silver medal team to go to APICTA, so both teams from SLIIT are going to APICTA. Thats enough of good news for now and lets wish both the groups from SLIIT all the best in APICTA.

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SLIIT wins gold and silver medals in NBQSA

Two fourth year projects of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology ( SLIIT ) has won the gold medal and the silver medal in the National Best Quality Software Awards ( NBQSA ). For the final six three projects from SLIIT were selected along with three from University of Moratuwa (UM). For SLIIT to emerge winners after competing with established universities like is a great achievement. This highlights the fact that SLIIT has come a long way in a short period of time and SLIIT student can held their own against the best. Congratulations to the winners and lets hope SLIIT can keep up the good work.

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