250 young, talented students from across the country participated in a hackathon challenge at the CyberXchange conference sponsored by Facebook and over a million naira was awarded to the winning teams.


The students were placed into groups and each group had a presentation, putting forward their solutions to the judges who were Yemi Saka of Ernst and Young, Babafemi Ogungbamila of Interswitch Limited, Regina Wallace-Jones of Facebook, and Bankole Oluwafemi of Techcabal.com


The team that emerged overall winner impressed the judges and audience by coming up with multi-factor authentication for a large enterprise to help secure the accounts of their employees.


The winning team was awarded N700, 000, the second-place team received N400,000 while the third place team received N300,000.



Regina Wallace-Jones, head of security operations at Facebook, and a judge at the hackathon said: “The competitors worked tirelessly to create their solutions, and we were inspired by their dedication and passion for security.


“Encouraging this kind of talent is important to the future of the security industry, and that is why we met with several university professors at CyberXchange to talk about how to continue to strengthen security curriculum and training”, Regina added

http://www.metronaija.com/2016/11/nigerian-students-win-facebook-hackathon-challenge.html

Wonderful.

I hope they're better paid if the solution is to be deployed.

#saynotointellectualpropertytheft

Nice encouragement.

it gladdens the heart when i see brains being used positively

encouraging. ...good job!

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Nice







Technology is the future
Content is king

I dey always talk am...young brilliant brains plenty for this country .

But there are still many dumb ones...just look at this one below

ok ..this piece will make your day
https://www.nairaland.com/3445942/give-up-im-not-doing/1#50789535

That was a very good encouragement.

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The students were placed into groups and each group had a presentation, putting forward their solutions to the judges.

Regina Wallace-Jones, head of security operations at Facebook, and a judge at the hackathon said: “The competitors worked tirelessly to create their solutions, and we were inspired by their dedication and passion for security.

I don't think they performed well. The judges were inspired by their dedication and passion, not skills.

nice one

Can someone please enlighten me more about how websites, bloggers etc earn their monies

350k each

Nice...

I need to learn this hacking thingy fast fast...

Who will teach me?

Ohhhh.....
And those gals that check Facebook every hour nko?
Nothing for them?!

well while we are warming up to elect a credible candidate



As for me I go for trump what about you?

yomibelle:

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For Rubbish..

Nice one, abeg who go dash me $6,000,000 for here?


Nobody àbí?


See this idiot want to insult me like dat o


Ode see as e dey laugh now

#ItsYourTimeToShine #IstandWithNairaland even though recession don almost finish the naira for our land

Good.


But pay is too small

1.Compared to billions Facebook makes from Nigeria yearly.

2.Compared to the money they will get if they decide to use that brain to hack interswitch

3.Compared to money awarded for using cucumber well in the name of peagents


My opinion tho.

I tell you this for sure, the winner and his team will/would be Employed by Facebook soonest... The Whites do not Reject/Ignore talents.

Hmmm

GrizzlyBear:


I don't think they performed well. The judges were inspired by their dedication and passion, not skills.

Smart observation

Wow That's awesome... seeing guys like this inspires me alot

small money

I was reporting for NCAN Akwanga Branch only to be dissappointed as the names of the winners weren't stated! Congrats young brain boxes, may yo brains take U places...Amen!!!

ok

Very dumb guy

bestspoke:
I dey always talk am...young brilliant brains plenty for this country .

But there are still many dumb ones...just look at this one below