AppRuption 2: EdTech Edition
After the tremendous success of the first edition of AppRuption in May of this year, organizer and founder Menno van Dam scheduled the second installment on November 30th and December 1st. The idea of the event remained the same: Talented students are brought together in teams for a hackathon and coupled with local IT professionals to coach and assist them.
At AppRuption, participating students start their two-day hackathon journey with inspiring speakers sharing their knowledge and experts giving workshops. Together with their coaches, student teams explore and validate business ideas. During the hackathon a prototype is created to further develop their business idea. The hackathon ends with a pitching round in front of the expert jury.
AppRuption #EdTech Edition: November 30th and December 1st: Students develop innovative business ideas and prototypes in just two days time. They build the prototypes together with five participating IT companies.
Located at the beautiful public library of Almere, this edition’s AppRuption was devoted to EdTech, or educational technology. Five tech companies participated and sent delegates to coach the teams: Toomba, Marviq, DPA Professionals, Oracle and of course Elements.
Four teams of students Information Engineering of Windesheim Flevoland were formed: Team Blue, Red, Green and Yellow. The teams came up with and worked on the following prototypes:
- Team Red: “Student Insight”, narrowing the gap between high school students and parents
- Team Green: “Mijn Leermaatje” (My Learning Buddy)
- Team Blue: An self-care app for education to get students in control
- Team Yellow: “Fyxer”, IT support for the computer illiterate
- Team Orange: “The Blues App”, depression prevention and treatment app
Team Yellow was coached by Elements’ senior Android developer Maksymilian who was present to share his professional experience with his students. Maksymilian’s team consisted of three students and they worked on “Fyxer”, a great app dedicated to getting and offering computer help using a map to locate bearby support and a bidding and scheduling system.
At the end of the day the jury picked, after quite some deliberations, the “Mijn Leermaatje” concept by team Green (coached by Toomba).
Originally published at www.elements.nl on December 2, 2016.
