EESTEC Magazine Vol 34 2014/1 | Page 8

International Projects 3rd EESTEC Competition for Android Text: Competition for Android Team Photographs: Competition for Android Team “Don’t expect the ordinary”, the slogan of EESTEC Competition for Android, this year managed to make itself be more than a simple slogan, becoming the anticipation of a successful edition. This project is one of the most important assignment of the Chairwoman’s Department. The first automatic question could be: What on earth is that about? Trying to be short and clear, we can say that EESTEC Competition for Android has as main objective to say, loudly, that “the future is ours”. It is in fact, a competition for young programmers (under 30 years old), that aims at motivating and opening the first door to them, in Android development. The participants have the opportunity to propose new mobile applications, starting from the basic ideas to the final implementation of them, all carefully evaluated by a panel of experts. This year, in its third edition, the competition received the participation of over 250 ideas from all around the world, until the final stage, which led to the final evaluation of more than 30 applications. The project was firstly coordinated by Burak Ayan (LC Istanbul), and then, from late November, the general coordination has been taken by Marco Cavaliere (LC Cosenza). The main structure of the organizing committee was consisting of three teams: Management Team coordinated by Angelos Karatsidis (JLC Xanthi), FR Team coordinated by Agnieszka Kaczmarczyk (LC Krakow), and PR Team coordinated by Quino Esteban Rojas (LC Madrid). With the right reinforcement of the team, that saw itself growing by reaching more than 15 people totally involved, and a collective careful planning, it was possible to reach extremely satisfying results. At the beginning of