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Press Release : Workshop on computer skills for teachers held at MANUU and Code from Home Hackathon by MANUU Coding Club

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Workshop on computer skills for teachers held at MANUU

Hyderabad:

A three-day online workshop on “Basic Computer Skills” organized by Centre for Professional Development of Urdu Medium Teachers (CPDUMT) of Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) was held from February 23 to 25.

Delivering the presidential address at the inaugural function held on February 23, Prof. S M Rahmatullah, Vice Chancellor I/c, said skills must also be learned along with knowledge. This has also been emphasized in the National Education Policy 2020. The modern technology should be used for betterment of human beings, he added.

Prof. Siddiqui Mohd Mahmood, Registrar I/c said being an educated person is not enough, currently all teachers should also know computer skills. He was speaking as the the guest of honor for the inaugural.

Prof. Mohammed Abdul Sami Siddiqui, Director, Centre while delivering welcome address informed that more than 800 teachers participated in the workshop. Mr. Misbah Anzar, Assistant Professor, CPDUMT convened the programme whereas the program coordinator, Dr. Mohd. Akbar, proposed vote of thanks. The resource person, Dr. Pervez Ahmad Azmi, Department of Urdu, Central University of Kashmir, discussed on Urdu typing and Wikipedia and answered the questions of the teachers in the first technical session. Dr. Khwaja Moinuddin and Dr. Jarrar Ahamad were the resource persons for second and third day respectively.

 

Code from Home Hackathon by MANUU Coding Club

Hyderabad:

MANUU Coding Club (MCC) of Department of Computer Science& Information Technology,Maulana Azad National Urdu Universityorganized an online hackathon at the HackerRank on February 21, 2021 under the guidance of Prof. Abdul Wahid, Dean, School of Technology.

A total of 120 students from B.Tech., M.Tech. & MCA participated and 50 students were able to solve the challenges.

According to Dr Syed Imtiyaz Hassan, Head, Department, the prizes will be awarded to the top five scorers - Ghulam Mustafa, Mohd. Shafi , Md Yazdan Rizwan from B.Tech. second year, Abdul Kafeel Khan and Dawood Ibrahim Bhat from B.Tech. fourth year.

The hackathon was based on 2 Easy, 2 Intermediate & 2 Difficult problems to be solved in 4 hours duration.

The aim of hackathon is to prepare students for placements in the IT industry. Hackathons aresynchronous coding contests that bring out the students’ problem-solving skills within the stipulated time.Code from Home Hackathon 1.O was planned by MCC and executed on the renowned platform HackerRank.

The core team of MCC included Abdul Basit, Nahid Chaudhari, Mohd. Anas, Mohd Ghazi Raza, Mohd. Mustafa Kamaal, Rizwan Ahmad, Rabia Khatun, Ammar Jamal and Asad Ahmad.