The 7th Annual Nationwide Programming Contest and Fair, SoftwareQuest 2002, was held on November 5, at the Main Campus Sports Hall. The all-day event began with a display of software projects from 60 university students from all over Turkey. 30 subject & platform projects in various categories were judged by the Academic-Industry Jury during the event.
SoftwareQuest continued with a Seminar by Ericsson entitled “Mobility in Our Lives” and then with a TriviaQuiz and Award Ceremony.
The top three awards of the Software Quest 2002 went to Bilkent Computer Engineering Department students; the project members are as follows:
1st Place: “İstila Strateji Oyunu”, Project by Ozan Gümüş
2nd Place: “ORS WEB / WAP (Online Registration System)”, Project Members: Kutsal Kaan Bilgin, Cihan Deniz, Mustafa Eriç, Mert Ece
3rd Place: “Fellowship Of The Rivals”, Project Members: İzzet Çağrı Baykan, Abdülkadir Tokgöz, Ercan Uçan, Ziya Özkan Göktürk, Emre Çakır
A total amount of $15.000 in prize money went to the winners. SoftwareQuest 2002 is organized by the Bilkent University Computer Club with the aid of Bilkent's CS Department and Bilkent ACM SIGART.
All details about this year's SoftwareQuest and next year's SoftwareQuest 2003 are available on the net: at: http://SoftwareQuest.org