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E-attendance taker wins innovation award
If students hope that their non-attendance will go undetected, they will soon be proven wrong with an innovation by Abu Dhabi University (ADU) team members.
The electronic attendance taker, which revolutionised the process of recording students’ attendance by innovating an ID card scanner for classrooms, won first place during the University’s fourth Chancellor’s Innovation Awards, given to forward-thinking students, faculty, staff and schools.
The winning breakthroughs included campus technology that electronically records attendance; connecting students with ADU alumni mentors online to maximise their career prospects; and an online portal that lets new students navigate a virtual tour of ADU’s dynamic student activities.
The awards aim to motivate innovation in ways that transform the campus, the community and the wider nation, particularly among young visionaries. Of all 550 institutions on the QS 550 World University Rankings, ADU is the youngest university to elevate students to the most competitive global standards.
The university is in the process of securing international accreditation.
“Many of the world’s greatest innovations originated from universities; for instance Facebook started at Harvard — and our own students, faculty, staff and communities are more than capable of pioneering their own innovations,” said Dr Nabil Ibrahim, Chancellor of ADU at the award ceremony on Thursday.
“Over 60 per cent of our region’s population is aged under 30, which means youths — particularly university students — are the main pacesetters when it comes to innovation.” The projects that were recognised included enhancing community perception, improving student engagement, creative marketing, as well as innovative use of social media.
The first place was presented to ID scanner, while the second place went to an ambitious project that augments the existing face-to-face orientation system through virtual campus tours.
“Sometimes it is not possible to remember everything you learn during orientation because Abu Dhabi University has so many thrilling social, cultural, artistic or other extracurricular activities. Therefore, our fun-filled virtual tour of campus life gives students an exciting port of call where they can enjoy orientation 24/7 at their own pace,” said team members Ayman Hanafy, Nikki Yu, Anne Shabaya and Hatem Deif.
In order to encourage innovation from an early stage, the awards are also open to schools.
Teams from two of these schools — Sunrise Private School and Al Dhafra Private School — won awards for their projects which showed an impressive level of creative problem-solving.
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