Four students from city-based Cummins College of Engineering for Women (CCEW), have got recognition from various quarters for their internship project on cutting edge technology involving benchmarking of NoSQL databases.

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In a recent internship programme hosted by SunGard in Pune, fourth year students of CCEW; Snigdha Singh, Shruti Zamwar, Suman Kashyap and Tanvi Bhavsar got an opportunity to work on benchmarking of NoSQL databases.

The four-member group project was recently selected among the top ten All India finalist at the national-level, ‘Discover Thinking’ competition, organised by the Computer Society of India. The all-girl group was selected in the top five for the same in regional finals. They have also received invitations from India and abroad to present their papers in various conferences. Their project papers were also selected as the second runner-up at the recently organised project competition by Persistent Systems, Pune.

One of the students, Bhavsar said, “The eight-month long internship at SunGard gave a good experience of corporate life wherein we got to work on a live project. It was a very serious project and was equally very challenging.”   R&D head at SunGard, Aditya Yadav, who was one of the mentors to lead the internship team said that during the project, SunGard provided students the convenience of working from home, by setting up a cloud infrastructure. This enabled them to run test cases from anywhere including from their college or homes.

“Youngsters generally don’t want to work on serious projects during internships. The girls had to go through a rigorous eight-month internship on benchmarking of NoSQL databases project. In the beginning, the girls were hesitant but their institute motivated them to take up the challenging project. They had to create application scenario using benchmarking harness. Their hard work finally paid-off with their project being appreciated by over five agencies,” said Yadav.