Sri Lanka, June 11 -- Team Akura, a group of four students from SLIIT's Faculty of Computing emerged champions at the 2026 AI Tool Building Challenge on OneEarth.

This virtual competition was organised by the School of Computing of Goldsmith's University, London. Seeing that their fourth-year project fits the brief which calls for using AI-driven solutions to address real-world challenges, their mentor Dr. Dinuka Wijendra guided the team and supervised their application to the competition.

The team consisting of Mihiran Nanayakkara, Dinithi Piyathilaka, Dhuwindhu Rathnayake and Rahul Nanayakkara designed a mobile, multi-modal learning platform for children aged 3-6 to support learning Sinhala. Although the world is divided about allowin...