Awards.

The challenge asked for a faster way to predict LTE coverage than a seven-to-nine-day ray-tracing run. Our entry, SignalMyth, is an XGBoost surrogate trained on real SRTM terrain and ESA WorldCover clutter for Durban. On a held-out set it reached 2.63 dB RMSE and an R² of 0.958, at roughly 18× the speed of the reference model. It won the Telkom topic and was also named Innovator of the Year, the award given to the best solution in the challenge.

Result

Winner, Telkom topic

Special award

Innovator of the Year

Event

SATNAC 2026

Entry

SignalMyth

A bronze prize with the DUT team in the 2025 BRICS Skills Development and Technology Innovation Competition. The entry, Dr Kiosk, is a medical self-service kiosk concept: a walk-up station for basic health checks and guided triage, designed for settings where a queue at a clinic is the first barrier to care.

Result

Bronze

Event

BRICS 2025

Entry

Dr Kiosk

Certificate

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Second place in a team hackathon run by Junior Chamber International. The format was a short build window followed by a live pitch, so the work was as much about scoping a solution that could actually be finished as it was about the code.

Result

Second place

Format

Team hackathon

Year

2025

Output

Working prototype and pitch

Completed the FNB App Academy programme in Full Stack Development, earning 32 credits. The course covered the application stack from the front end through to data and deployment, and it is the reason the web side of these projects is not an afterthought.

Result

Certificate

Programme

Full Stack Development

Credits

32

Provider

FNB · IT varsity