SCS announces drone competition, digital proficiency programme

The Singapore Computer Society (SCS) has a full plate in its 50th anniversary year. The organisation is targeting to launch the Game of Drones competition in April, and the National Digital Proficiency Programme in Q317.

The SCS Game of Drones 2017 is to be organised in conjunction with the annual SCS Splash Awards, and will be the celebratory finale as SCS commemorates its 50th anniversary this year. Prizes of over S$50,000 stand to be won, and the SCS expects some 1,000 people to attend the final in October 2017. 

The SCS Game of Drones will comprise a race and a hackathon. Drone Racing will be a racing competition using programming tools and software development kits (SDKs) where drones will fly on a specially constructed drone racing track with the winner being the drone able to complete the distance in the shortest time. According to SCS, there are likely to be two race categories, a first person view (FPV) race and a remote-controlled (RC) race.

Drone Challenge is a mobile app competition that requires participating teams to solve real life challenges using drone technologies. 

The SCS, aims to make the National Digital Proficiency Programme a recognised benchmark for essential digital skills, with increased credibility among employers, co-workers and clients. Professionals, managers, engineers and technicians (PMETs) across all sectors are welcome.

SCS will work with suitable training providers and vendors to develop the course curriculum and also design the testing mechanism to validate individual competency in digital application skills. 

Proposed modules include:

Branding Your Professional Image in the Digital Economy 

This covers how an individual can leverage on traditional and new media tools to develop personal branding and professional image through the conduct of market research, networking and presentation to achieve personal career goals.

Cyber Security 
This focuses on the personal computing security, Singapore laws regarding IT security, understanding of organisational level of security measures and IT security standards.

Business Data and Insights  
This is about effectively preparing, analysing, visualising and presenting data for reporting. 

Content Creation 
Covers how to create artefacts (text, images, video and infographics) online, use of intellectual property, referencing, citations and copywriting in the process of creating online content

Interested?

Online registrations begin in April 2017 for Drone Challenge and for Drone Racing in May 2017 on the SCS Splash Awards page.

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