EESTEC Android
Competition
Text: A. Sekuli?, P. Ramos
Try to imagine a world without technology. Dif?cult? You wouldn’t probably
be reading this in that case. It’s not
new that technology has become part
of our life. Think about everything you
can do with your smartphones, tablets, handhelds. You can see the latest
sport scores, view your favourite photos, check the weather or peek at your
inbox, no matter where you are. With
millions of apps, games, songs and
videos, all provided with fast and effective web searching, you can follow
and share the things you love.
Android platform improved all of these
and brought it to the general public.
We can say that Android is selfevolving
machine of tomorrow. With million
of these apps, we all participate and
improve it. And in this way we make
Android not product of some corporation, but we make it as part of
ourselves. So like this, everyone can
become new builder of tomorrow.
Photographs: EESTEC Android Competition Team
Competition is the best way to do that.
This event is very important since it
provides students to learn about the
latest technologies. Moreover, its history speaks for itself. 170 submitted
ideas in the ?rst phase, 110 of them
passing to the next phase. These were
the numbers that make last year’s
edition an incredible success, adding
the good welcome of the ?rst edition.
These ideas came from 22 different
countries, not only European ones,
but also from all around the world.
Different places such as Canada,
Chile or Egypt have talented people
who send their ideas, proving that
our world is completely globalized,
and anybody who puts his effort in it
could be able of whatever they want.
To end last year’s edition, 41 applications were sent in the ?nal phase. Of
these, the three applications chosen
as the best and most complete ones
were: DrivingCoach, Health Buddy,
and Split It!
For the third edition, EESTEC Android
Competition will go further. Participating in this event has only bene?ts.
It helps you to put your knowledge into
practice and build an application that
could be used by millions of people
from around the globe and maybe
give some pro?t in the future. This
competition encourages creativity,
and who knows better what the needs
of our generation are than students
ourselves?
If you would like to combine creativity
and knowledge, EESTEC Android
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