A CMU-Q team was among six teams in the SAP DemoJam finals in Barcelona last week. Although individual students have participated in past years, this is the first time CMU-Q has sent a team to the international event.

To qualify for DemoJam, teams first competed in InnoJam, a 36-hour hackathon competition where participants used SAP technologies to create an innovative solution in the area of education and research. Information systems students Noor El-Sakka, Mehak Manwani, Farjana Salahuddin, Ibrahim Soltan and Mohammed Zakaria developed an educational platform that aims to create a connection between the major entities within higher education—students, employers, and educational institutions—through challenges created by companies based on their needs.

Of the 15 teams who competed in InnoJam, 10 were professional teams who work in industry. The CMU-Q team was one of only two university teams who advanced to the finals. Soltan and Manwani presented the team’s idea, and the winners were decided by the audience.

See the DemoJam presentation here.