The UWI, Cave Hill Campus CHILL- 60th Anniversary Edition

TECHNOLOGY, TEACHING & LEARNING

MFA Team 3 - (from left) Ashray Soares, Joshua Alkins, Assistant Registrar Justin Seale, Jason Charles (squatting), Shane Okukenu, and Tevin Taylor

Young Software Engineers Create Legacy Project

great good fortune and pleasure of working with a number of UWI students and one of their administrators in what was a really important and urgent project for us. Previously, we had a fairly rudimentary registration process. But in reaching out to The UWI, and in particular, the UWICIIT Software Engineering programme which was based in Suzhou, China, we were able to develop, with their help, a more sophisticated and efficient internet tool. With the help of Justin Seale , who is the Assistant Registrar, and a number of students, we got together to work on this internet platform. Within a few months, the team had produced a most effective and efficient registration system,” said

A group of aspiring software engineers is already leaving their imprint in the region. Students of The UWI China Institute of Information Technology (UWICIIT) BSc Software Engineering programme have created a database to aid the Barbados Overseas Mission in the collection of by Camille Russell

citizen information. The database became a critical resource for the Mission which urgently required an online registration system of travelling nationals and Barbadians living abroad during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Former Ambassador of Barbados to China His Excellency François Jackman praised the work of the students for the project: “I had the

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