Kirusa was a part of the NJTC Summer Research Programme held in New Providence, USA, where two Kirusa interns tied for the first place. The programme featured submissions by university students and graduate researchers on the work that they have done during the summer in the fields of Communications, Electronics, Environment & Energy, Information Technology, and Life Sciences. After hearing the presentations, the audience chose the two winners via a secret ballot. Both the winning students, Rohan Alur, from the University of Pennsylvania, and Pulkita Dua, from Carnegie Mellon University, were interns from Kirusa.