Today I submitted the design and development report for my Web-Based School Management System in the EL2520 Technical Report Writing module. This experience helped me learn many advanced MS Word formatting and technical writing techniques, improving my ability to prepare formal engineering reports.
Today I completed a networking lab on configuring VLANs and trunking. I created different VLANs, assigned switch ports to them, and configured a trunk link between two switches. This helped me understand how networks can be logically divided to improve performance and security.
Today we participated in a hackathon and started building an Offline-First Emergency Communication & Disaster Prioritization System. It was a memorable experience where we learned new technologies, teamwork, and how to present our ideas. Although we couldn’t finish it in time, we plan to complete it in the future.
Today, our 3-member team Zenith successfully completed the
IAEA/ANENT Educational App Competition project.
It was an incredible journey where we collaborated, solved challenges,
improved our technical and presentation skills, and gained valuable experience
working as a team.
We are proud to have completed and hosted our project online for everyone to explore:
https://zenith.projects.uom.lk/
This achievement became a memorable milestone in our journey, motivating us
to continue building impactful and innovative solutions in the future.
Today, we successfully submitted our Software Engineering project, developed collaboratively by 4 teams. The project was a complete DevOps-based Smart Agriculture Platform focused on irrigation optimization and crop monitoring using IoT and analytics. I worked in the Deployment Team, mainly handling deployment and cloud hosting using AWS. This project gave us valuable experience in teamwork, DevOps practices, and real-world software development.
Today, our team had the opportunity to present our project, NukeSense, at the IAEA/ANENT Educational App Competition. We presented our solution to an international panel of judges from different countries and also participated in a technical Q&A session. It was a memorable experience that helped us improve our presentation, communication, and confidence while discussing our ideas with experts from different backgrounds. This competition gave us valuable exposure to an international audience and was an inspiring milestone in our academic journey.
Today marks the beginning of my Semester 5 journey. This semester brings new opportunities, including internship preparation, exciting projects, and new learning experiences. Looking forward to growing both personally and professionally.
Grateful to have represented my team as a finalist at the UoJCoders v5.0 Grand Finale. Competing alongside talented university teams from across Sri Lanka in a 12-hour hackathon was an unforgettable experience that strengthened my teamwork and time management skills. Thank you to the Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna for organizing such an inspiring competition.
Today, I explored how people who are both blind and deaf can communicate using Accessibility APIs, screen readers, and refreshable Braille displays. It gave me a new perspective on accessibility and reminded me that technology should be built so that everyone can use it.
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