NCU ALUMNI CHAPTER CAYMAN (ACKy)
Northern Caribbean University
Summary of NCU's IT and Other Awards for Excellence
The following list outlines a few of NCU's accomplishments within the last decade.
Awards/Competitions/Events
2005 -- Microsoft Imagine Cup National Champions – Jamaica
2005 -- Microsoft Imagine Cup Regional Champions – 1st Place Caribbean & Central America
2005 -- Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence in International Achievement
2006 --- 2nd Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup—Caribbean & Central America
2007 -- 1st Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup—Caribbean & Central America
2007 -- 3rd Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup—World Finals in Seoul, South Korea
2007 -- The Gleaner Company Youth Honour Award for Excellence
2007 -- Silver Medalist in the Website Design category of the National World Skills competition
2008 -- Imagine Cup Caribbean & Central America Regional Finalists
2008 -- Gold Medal Web Design – World Skills National Competition
2009 -- Best of Nation in Web Design – World Skills Final in Calgary, Canada
2009 -- Microsoft Imagine Cup National Champions – 1st Place Jamaica
2009 -- Microsoft Imagine Cup Regional Champions – 1st Place Caribbean & Central America
2010 -- 1st Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup—Caribbean & Central America
2010 -- 2nd Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup—Caribbean & Central America
2010 -- 1st Place: Microsoft Imagine Cup Interoperability Award – World Finals in Warsaw, Poland
2010 -- Governor General I-Believe Award
2010 -- The Gleaner Company Special Award in Science & Technology
2011 -- 1st Place: Ministry of Education Blackberry Developers Competition
2011 -- Prime Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence in International Achievement
2011 -- Manchester Chamber of Commerce Science & Technology Award
2012 -- 1st Place: World Bank Digital Jam 2.0 Competition
2012 -- 1st Place: Ministry of Education (Eduvision Competition)
2012 -- Digital Jam 2.0 – Grand Prize Winner
2013 -- 1st Place: Innovative Ideas Ingenuity Competition
2013 -- Manchester Chamber of Commerce Science & Technology Award
2014 -- 1st Place: Ministry of Education (Eduvision Competition)
2014 -- Microsoft Imagine Cup World Finalist – Game Design
2014 -- World Bank Digi-Jam Finalists
2014 -- Inaugural staging of Computer & Information Sciences Conference (CISCON 2014), under the theme, where academia and industry interface.
2015 -- Summer Tech Camp for High Schoolers
2015 -- Women in IT Seminar (Partnered with CompTIA)
2015 -- CU EdTech Seminar (Partnered with TestOut Corporation