De La Salle-Taft wins software design contest

The De La Salle-Taft team won the third annual SGETECH Cup, an inter-school software design competition, which culminated in ceremonies keynoted by Under-secretary for Information and Communication Technology Emmanuel Lallana, who rep-resented President Arroyo.

The De La Salle-Taft team of Gino Lorenzo Gervasio, Kristine Dianne Ong, Preciousa de Leon and Federico Roque III won P100,000, while their school got P50,000.

Aside from the cash prize, De La Salle-Taft will take hold of the five-foot-tall SGETECH Cup made of 24K gold, silver and brass for one year, as a symbol of its victory, until next year’s competition when it defends the title. Whoever emerges the champion next year will get hold of the SGETECH Cup.

The other winners were Alfred Figueroa of STI College-Marikina, first runner-up; Wilfredo Montino, Eunice Cueto and Donnabele Bongcaron of UST, second runner-up; Ma. Christa del Rosario, Jocelyn Santos, Razielle Anne Santos and Ma. Vennus Vito of St. Paul University, third runner-up; Anthony Tiro, Amy-Lea de Guzman and Sheryl Henson of STI College-Caloocan, fourth runner-up; and Joanna Plaza, Joseph Paul Ribac and Noel Tameta of AMA University Quezon City, fifth runner-up. Each won cash prizes of P50,000, P25,000, P15,000, P10,000 and P7,000 respectively.

The prizes and awards were given during the concluding ceremonies hosted by commercial model and MTV UBreak host Chase Tinio and 2004 Miss Earth Philippines Tammy Cziharto.

Fifty-five universities and colleges participated in the contest whose categories included business applications and systems program (ERP, CRM, biotech, telecommunications, Web appli-cations, etc.).

The board of judges was composed of SGETECH officers and technical specialists with 25 years of experience in information technology (IT).

The entries were judged based on creativity, functionality and technical sophistication.

SGETECH Inc. holds the annual software design compe-tition to recognize the talent and capability of Filipino students and promote competence and profes-sionalism in the IT industry.