Our Team Won Grand Prize at Bank of America Campus Challenge

I was one of the four graduate students (team L.Y.E) from NUS, School of Computing, who took part in the Bank of America Global Campus Challenge. The Challenge, a competition seeking innovative solutions to real-world banking scenarios involving technology issues and business considerations, targeted technology and business students in a number of universities around the world. We won and the news section of NUS, School of Computing site features our story. 

   

Team L.Y.E.: Li Luochen, Edward Law, Zeng Yong and Cao Nannan 

(from left to right).

Teams from Carnegie Mellon University and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, University College Cork in Ireland, Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the National University of Singapore entered entries in the challenge. The NUS Computing team, team L.Y.E., received the highest scores from the judging panel, comprised of Bank of America technology and business executives, and took home cash prizes of US$3,500 each for themselves. In addition, Bank of America presented NUS with a generous cash prize for its role in sponsoring the winning team. Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies Associate Professor Atreyi Kankanhalli commented: “We are very happy that our students have proved themselves in this prestigious global competition and done their school proud as well.”

The Campus Challenge was an academic competition sponsored by the Bank of America. There were two rounds in the competition, held in January and February 2012 respectively. The first round was intra-campus round, while the next was inter-campus. In each of the rounds, participants were given a real-world scenario involving technology and business issues in banking. Judging criteria, among others, included creativity and innovativeness of the solution, functionality and commercial potential.

The Campus Challenge was conducted completely online, and the platform being used this year was LinkedIn. The final results were announced on 5 March, and the prize ceremony was held on 28 March at the Singapore office of Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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