2017 China App Building Competition
On November 26, 23 student finalists came together from across China for a nationwide app building competition. Hosted at the Google Beijing Office, students as young as 10-years-old pitched their apps and competed for the grand prize.
The competition was jointly organized by the Google Beijing Office, MIT App Inventor, the South China University of Technology, the Guangzhou Education Information Center and Thunkable.
App categories included: gaming, travel, education, information, bluetooth connectivity and communication.
From the thousands of submissions, here are the grand prize winners for middle school and high school.
Middle School Grand Prize Winner
Yiwen Tan 谭溢文, Age 14, Shenzhen
Everyone loves the game Snake, but I bet you’ve never seen Snake like this. In “Retro Snaker and Hive” gamers play as a bee collecting honey.
As you move around the beehive, honeycombs constantly shift, creating dead ends and portals for your bee to move through.
High School Grand Prize Winner
Haoming Chen 陈浩铭, Age 15, Guangzhou
Ready for next level information sharing? In “Environmental” users can crowdsource air quality metrics through IoT devices. Haoming even built his own air quality module that can upload air ratings directly to the cloud. The idea is that users would buy these devices, and upload their own data from different areas.
Let these students be an inspiration. If you have an idea for an app, don’t wait! Build it yourself on thunkable.com.
