Deadline: Ongoing
The Digital Geekaship is launching its exciting new unique challenge “Digital Geekaship Campus Battle”! a challenge that combines team work, software engineering and programming skills. Students and their tertiary institutions in South Africa are invited to take part in a 2-day team-based application development challenge to solve a specific problem and the best team will stand a chance to win a dope prize. This challenge will run nationally and virtually, so each team will send organizers the GPS location of where they will be stationed during the 2 days. The challenge will take place over two days; January 21, 2017 from 09:00 until January 22, 2017 at 13:00.
Prize
- Team: R5000 in cash secured already.
- Institution: The title of “Top Digital Geeks Campus Battle 2016” goes to the winning institution.
Eligibility
The challenge is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying in the fields of software, mobile development, web development, front-end development, systems design and engineering.
Challenge Activities
- Activity 1: Build a small application
For this level’s battle, the team can use any programming language or approach to getting the application developed and running. Show organizers your strut.
- Activity 2: Submit videos recording your progress and human state at defined intervals
Throughout the day each team will be required to post a 30 seconds video of where they are at, sharing anything that is on their mind. Like your Big Geek Brother! Each team member MUST submit the 30 second emoji check-in.
For application and more information, visit Digital Geekaship Campus Challenge.
