More than 200 students experienced S.M.A.C technology

Candidates selected for Round 2 of S.M.A.C Challenge 2015 had the opportunity to experience S.M.A.C technology with FPT Corporation’s leading experts in two days. Besides, they also joined some group activities. The program took place on October 17-18 in Hanoi and will be held on October 24-25 in HCM. 

The technology experts are exchanging views with students.

FPT Corp’s experts shared about tech trends in the world and the firm’s technology policy. In particular, the participants had the opportunity to study and experience S.M.A.C-based products that FPT developed namely ANTS Ad Exchange, FPT TV and FPT Play, DirectTV, e-ticket train system, Sendo etc.

Some team building activities such as tower building, Diplomacy were also conducted to help students practice their soft skills and express the spirit of teamwork. These activities accounted for 15% of score at Round 2. Besides, they also attended White Gala and stood a chance of becoming the talented designer.

Participating in S.M.A.C Challenge for the first time, Hoang Thanh Tam, a student of University of Engineering and Technology, said that the activities at S.M.A.C Open Camp were exciting and useful to students. They did not only get the technological knowledge but also practice many skills.

Just 2 months after its launch, S.M.A.C Challenge 2015 has attracted more than 68 teams with 300 candidates across the country. There have been nearly 140 voice-based ideas. Most of them aim at meeting popular needs such as home assistant, baby care, health care, driving support, path finding, tour guide etc.

The program drew much attention of students.

In the evening of October 8, FPT officially activated the contestants’ accounts on smac.fpt.com.vn. With Citus PaaS accounts, they could create apps with such programming languages as NodeJs, PHP, Java, Ruby etc. Besides, they were given some smart services namely Vietnamese Text to Speech (TTS); Natural Language Understanding (NLU); Neo4j Graph Database and Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML).