Latest News on Awards and Recognition

November 2009

• Student Wins First Prize in the "4th National Video Game Competition"
  Nov. 28, 2009
  Paolo Cosentino, a senior student in the Information Technology Analyst program, won first prize in the "4th National Video Game Competition," organized by the Ingenio incubator at LATU.
• Screening of award-winning commercials at FIAP 2009
  Nov. 23, 2009
  On Thursday, November 26, a screening of the compilation of award-winning commercials from the Ibero-American Advertising Festival (FIAP 2009)—which took place from May 5 to 8 in Buenos Aires—was held in the Auditorium of the School of Communication and Design. 
• Students Won the Sebrae Uruguay Challenge
  Nov. 16, 2009
  The team, consisting of Maximiliano Nogueira, a public accounting student, along with Sebastián González and Darío Avila, students in the Bachelor of Advertising Communication program at ORT University, and Maximiliano Otermin, an economics student at the University of the Republic, won the Sebrae Challenge in Uruguay. In February, they will compete in the finals in Rio de Janeiro.
• Graduates Honored by the National Academy of Economics
  Nov. 12, 2009
  Andrés D'Albora and Joaquín Thul, graduates of the Bachelor of Economics program, won second prize in the competition organized by the National Academy of Economics on the topic “A Comparison of the 1929 and 2008 Crises: Characterization, International and Uruguayan Measures, and Consequences.”
• Student works selected in the CEMPRE competition
  Nov. 12, 2009
  The projects by Santiago Maggioli and Alfonso Rosso, and *Dual* by Germán Canuti—all students in the Bachelor of Industrial Design program—were two of the four projects selected in the "CEMPREndimientos para el reciclaje" competition organized by CEMPRE (Corporate Commitment to Recycling). 
• A communications graduate won first prize in the press category of the Proniño Award on Child Labor in Uruguay
  Nov. 10, 2009
  Patricia Gamio, María Eugenia Lima, and Déborah Friedmann, all graduates in Journalism, were honored in the print media category with the Proniño Award for "Journalistic Investigation into Child Labor in Uruguay," selected from among 15 projects submitted in the radio, print, and television categories. This award is sponsored by Movistar’s Proniño Program and the Communication Agency for Children and Adolescents “Voz y Vos,” with the support of the Uruguayan Press Association.  
• A team of engineering students ranked in the top 3% of the South American Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
  Nov. 5, 2009
  The team consisting of Fabián Kozynski, Ari Rostkier, and Rogelio Sandler—students of Telecommunications Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Electronics Engineering, respectively—placed 19th (in the top 3%) at the South American Finals of the ACM International Programming Contest, organized by the Association for Computing Machinery on October 24 in Buenos Aires.
• Project recognized at the "^3rd Entrepreneurship Ideas Competition" and the "Open Coffee Show MVD"
  Nov. 1, 2009
  On November 20, an awards ceremony was held for the winners of the "^3rd Entrepreneurship Ideas Contest," organized by the Emprender Program.