Celfocus Merit Award in Software Engineering
Awarding of an annual academic merit prize to the students who integrate the best team in the Software Engineering Curricular Unit of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of IST.
Target audience and application conditions
Candidates to the Celfocus Software Engineering Prize are all IST students enrolled in the curricular unit of Software Engineering of the Computer Engineering Department of IST, specifically the teams formed within the subject, with a maximum of 2 elements each.
Rules and Conditions
1. In the first phase, the sub-teams will be ranked according to their final average classification in the course unit, namely the final classification in the project to be developed in the subject in the academic year in question, together with the classification in the different phases of the project, as well as according to their classification in the final exam of the first season of the course unit, down to the hundredths, and as assessed by the jury.
2. Up to 3 teams will be selected for the final pitch, according to the above ranking criteria.
3. In the final phase, the jury will assess each team based on the 10-minute pitch, followed by a 5 minute round of questions and answers, according to the following criteria:
a. Project execution;
b. Presentation of results;
c. Communication skills.
Prize
- A monetary prize to be awarded to the winning project – 2.500€;
- Donation for improving the quality of education – 1.670€
Jury
The jury panel must be composed of more than one IST faculty member so that they have a majority of the votes.
(See regulation of the respective academic year for more information).
Winners of Celfocus/ Novabase Merit Award in Software Engineering
| Edition | Project | Team | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/2018 | Extramile | Bernado Andrade; Ivan Zarro; João Almeida; José Ferrão; Nuno Bombico; Samuel Santos | 1.250€ |
| 2018/2019 | TravelHub | Francisco Matos; Pedro Custódio; Pedro Bernardo | 1.250€ |
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2019/2020 |
es20al_18 | Daniel Serafim; Daniel Matos; João Dinis; Tiago Fonseca; Tomás Inácio | 1.250€ |
| AtLETIco F.C | Afonso Sousa; André Marques; João Achando; Miguel Franco; Oleksandr Stopchak; Ricardo Vaz | 1.250€ | |
| 2020/2021 | Quizzes Tutor | André Ferreira do Nascimento; Duarte Constantino Bento; Susana Moreno Monteiro | 1.325€ |
| 2021/2022 | Quizzes Tutor | Afonso Felizardo Pinto e Sidnei Martins Teixeira | 1.325€ |
| 2022/2023 | Quizzes Tutor | Diogo Gaspar e Tomás Esteves | 1.325€ |
| 2023/2024 | waiting selection | 2.500€ |
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Documents
See Portuguese version
News
- Novabase challenges students to develop an application (2018/2019)
- Two teams win Novabase Merit Award in Software Engineering (2019/2020)
- Técnico team awarded by Celfocus/Novabase (2020/2021)
- Celfocus/Novabase rewards students work in Software Engineering (2021/2022)
- Merit Award Celfocus in Engenharia de Software 2022/2023
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