Winners of Regional App Challenge organized by Telekom Srbija Group pronounced
For a fourth time, the members of Telekom Srbija Group, Telekom Srbija, m:tel BiH and m:tel Crna Gora, organized a competition in the creation of mobile applications entitled Regional App Challenge. This year, the five best teams of secondary school students from all the three countries, the winners of the national competitions, met online to present their applications by video conferencing.
The jury declared that the best regional applications were DreamScape, by the Augmentum team of Svetozar Markovic Grammar School of Niš, Leafy, by the Electronic Code team of the Transport and Technical School of Doboj, and New View, by the Sovice team of Vaso Aligrudić Secondary School of Electrical Engineering of Podgorica. A special recognition for innovativeness, Power of Innovation - Igor Osmokrović, went to the FikiCar team of the Computer Secondary School of Belgrade for their application NDP. The winning team will receive valuable computer equipment, whereas the most innovative application will be awarded a mobile handset of recent generation.
The CEOs of the companies within Telekom Srbija Group addressed the participants and the winning teams in a video message.
“We are very glad that despite the difficult circumstances, you found the motivation to work and create applications and bring your projects to an end. Telekom Srbija is investing a lot in the technological development of not only its own capacities, content and infrastructure, but also of the knowledge of generations of young people who are our movers and protagonists of positive changes in their respective environments. Given that, we are planning on lending serious support for the development of the start-up ecosystem and investing substantial funds in that domain in the period to come, the mts app competition and Regional App Challenge practically represent an introduction to this entrepreneurial venture,“ Vladimir Lučić, Telekom Srbija CEO, said and added it was important to recognize young talents in time and encourage them from the very outset.
“All of us at Telekom Srbija group are particularly proud of this project because we have an opportunity to meet young talented people from across the region, rally them around a positive and worthwhile activity and support them in what they are doing. It is exceptionally encouraging and promising that people so young, secondary school students, have such an extraordinary expertise and the will to devote themselves to programming and information technologies as part of their extracurricular activities. Their commitment is truly admirable,” Marko Lopičić, CEO of BiH, said and added he was confident that all those who had taken part in the competition that year would use that experience further in life to advance professionally and acquire fresh knowledge.
“We are especially proud of the students and their mentors for their commitment, expertise, vision and preparedness to sacrifice and work in a team along the road to be trodden from an idea to a finished, functional application despite the difficult communication conditions due to the epidemiological situation. It is a great satisfaction to know that your company is motivating young people to develop personally and strengthen their potentials for they are our future,“ Aleksandra Radojević, chief officer of the Strategy Department of m:tel CG, said and added that digitalization was our reality and that it was precisely young people who developed it. She went on to say that it was the duty of the companies to provide tailwinds for their advancement.
The members of the winning team of Serbia, Vuk Marković and Milan Radomirović, said they were very pleased to have received the main award particularly because the competition was strong and applications were good. They are particularly happy with the fact that an increasingly large number of participatns focus on the design of an application and that their generation already had an enviable knowledge they would use to win the application market in the future.
Filip Obradović of the FikiCar team commended the organization of the online Regional Appplication Challenge and said he was pleased that many secondary school students dealt with the creation of applications.
Despite the specific situation caused by the epidemics, the interest in the mts app competition and Regional App Challenge has not diminished, which is testified to by the preparedness of talented students to use in practice the knowledge acquired at school and thus promote their professional qualities for some future professions in the sphere of IT. This year's cycle at a regional level gathered students of 93 schools –51 in Serbia, 29 in Bosnia-Herzegovina and 13 in Montenegro.
