Winners of the anniversary online mts app competition rewarded
Telekom Srbija has successfully organized the 10th anniversary mts app competition for the development of applications for mobile devices, this year in online format, in accordance with the current epidemiological situation. The finals of the competition and the presentation of applications were held via video conference, and the jury unanimously pronounced the five best applications: Dreamscape of Augmentum team of Svetozar Marković Grammar School of Niš, e-help of F&A team of Mladenovac Grammar School, Livecart of MemoEasy team of Bora Stanković Grammar School, Niš, and NDP and GrickApp by the teams FikiCar and Narandža of the Computer Science High School in Belgrade.
"Due to the safety of the participants in the 10th mts app competition in the ongoing epidemiological situation, this year we staged a competition and presentation in online format, which posed a special challenge, both for us as organizers and for teams of students who presented their applications via video conference. We received quality and advanced applications that bring an additional socially responsible, educational message and useful application. This is yet another testimony that young people in Serbia have the knowledge and enthusiasm and that they only need a little support and encouragement to succeed,” said Miroslava Tešin Popović, CSR manager at Telekom Srbija.
Students of specialized departments for mathematics, informatics and computer science of the grammar schools that participated in the 10th mts app competition said that the competition had been an opportunity for them to advance the knowledge and skills they had acquired in school. This year, an additional challenge was to offer solutions through the application that contribute to dealing with such situations as the one caused by the coronavirus epidemic.
Commending the organization of this year's presentation of applications, Vuk Marković and Milan Radomirović of Augmentum team advised would-be participants in the mts app competition to participate, present their ideas and be part of a fantastic challenge, while Filip Oketić and Andjela Kanjo from the F&A team, who participate for the first time, said that they had learned a lot and made progress in programming through the competition, and that seeing the works of other participants in the presentation meant a lot to them.
Both Dunja Dimitrijević and Nada Trajković of Orange team are participating in the competition for the first time. They said the competition had been an interesting and challenging experience for them. Their friend from the Computer Science Grammar School, Filip Obradović of FikiCar team, is confident that he will remember the invaluable experience from the competition for many years.
Members of MemoEasy team, Natalija Simonović, Nikola Ilić and Borko Krstić, said that owing to the mts app competition they had had an opportunity to work on a big project and observe the things from the perspective of the user who the application was intended for, which would mean a lot to them in their further career.
The winning teams were traditionally awarded with valuable mobile handsets and received the opportunity to participate in the next level of the competition, the Regional App challenge, to test their talent and creativity against the most successful teams of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro, since the competition had been held under the same conditions in the organization of m:tel BiH and m:tel CG, too.
The mts app competition is part of Telekoma Srbija’s programme We Initiate the Initiators in which more than 2,500 pupils participated and 168 teams presented 175applications over the period of ten years. Thanks to its importance for the development of the IT knowledge and skills of young people, the mts app competition is supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development and is included in the selection of the reputable European organization CSR Europe.
Description of the winnning applications:
1. Augmentum team, Dreamscape application - you dream in reality, Svetozar Markovic Grammar School of Niš
Dreamscape is a platform that allows collaboration and work in separate cloud spaces, with applications that automatically sync across all devices.
Dreamscape is not just an application - it is an extensible platform that provides for any work on the computer or phone to be shared with all team members working on the project, from home or at work, which is extremely important during the current epidemiological situation.
2. F&A team, e-help application, Mladenovac Grammar School
The e-help application provides help with school materials by peers. The user can post school materials, seek assistance or help someone to meet school obligations. He can ask questions and be sure that some of his peers from all over the country will help him. Posts can be placed in text or image format. Announcements are divided by primary subjects (primary and secondary schools). There is also a classroom for vocational subjects. All material posted in the application will be available to all users at all times. Learning is much easier with the help of friends and the e-help application.
3. MemoEasy team, Livecart application, Bora Stanković Grammar School of Niš
The application enables shopping through a conversation with the seller, and without leaving the house. The situation caused by the corona virus epidemic has shown that "word of mouth" and conversation will never be replaced by technology. In that respect, the Livecart application allows the user to call the seller and see, hear and arrange a purchase with him. The seller can introduce the user to the offer through the image and sound and acquaint him with the characteristics of the product. The application contains information about the store - address and opening hours, as well as a complete range of products
4. FikiCar team, NDP application, Computer Science Grammar School
NDP is an e-Learning platform intended for everyone, especially users in rural parts of Serbia where many families cannot afford a computer; schools that cannot provide computers to all students in situations where they unable to come to school and do not have a computer (as in the recent epidemic situation) - generally to anyone who wants to start learning programming quickly. NDP provides a simple interface with all the functionalities that can be expected from the e-Learning platform (lessons, tests, statistics and a place to do the exercises).
5.Orange team, GrickApp, Computer Science Grammar School
The application makes it possible for you to select a recipe and make a shopping list based on the ingredients in the user's refrigerator. Recipes can be quickly and easily added and shared with other GrickApp users. Recipes that the user especially likes can be marked and accessed more easily at a later date.
