Latest News on Awards and Recognition

November 2016

• La Casa Uruguaya awarded the National Energy Efficiency Award in the Buildings category
  Nov. 30, 2016
  La Casa Uruguaya, designed by students and faculty from all of the university’s schools, was recognized on November 30, 2016, in the “Buildings” category of the National Energy Efficiency Award, organized annually by the Ministry of Industry, Energy, and Mining. The purpose of this award is to recognize projects nationwide that make efficient use of energy.
• Winning teams from the 16th ORT Programming Contest participated in the South American Regional Final of the ACM International Programming Contest
  Nov. 24, 2016
  The two winning teams from the 16th ORT Programming Contest, held in September 2016 as part of the Faculty of Engineering’s Student Day, participated in the Latin American Regional Round of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) International Programming Contest. The event took place on November 12, 2016, at the University of Buenos Aires. They ranked in the top 6.4% and 12.4% among a total of 1,973 participating teams.
• A startup supported by the CIE was the local winner of IBM Smartcamp
  Nov. 9, 2016
  The startup Krowth, incubated at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE), was the local winner of IBM Smartcamp, a global entrepreneurship competition that seeks to identify the best technology-based solution of the year. The event took place on November 1, 2016, at the World Trade Center in Montevideo.