{"id":79,"date":"2014-05-15T17:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T17:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-07-23T19:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:51:13","slug":"teamwork-takes-app-challenge-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/eecsnews\/2014\/05\/15\/teamwork-takes-app-challenge-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork Takes App Challenge to a New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"

After participating in the App Hackathon last year, Nicole Phelps knew she wanted to bring the experience of creating an app to more students. Renamed OSU\u2019s App Challenge, she David Meehan organized the event this year that culminated in a competition on May 10. It was the capstone senior project for the two computer science students.<\/p>\n

Phelps and Meehan taught weekly classes in Android and iOS development to prepare students for the competition. But expanding students’ skills was not the only point to the competition.<\/p>\n

\"OSU\u2019s<\/a>
OSU\u2019s App Challenge organizers pose with the judges. (left to right) David Meehan, Luke Kanies (Puppet Labs), Bryce Clemmer (Vadio), Shashi Jain (MatterCompilers), Scott Kveton (Urban Airship), and Nicole Phelps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe event currently has some amazing judges, which provides students with an uncommon opportunity to network with inspiring role models in the tech industry,\u201d Phelps said. The judges this year were Scott Kveton, CEO and co-founder of Urban Airship, and co-founder of OSU’s Open Source Lab; Bryce Clemmer, CEO and co-founder of Vadio; Luke Kanies, CEO and co-founder of Puppet Labs; and Shashi Jain, CTO and co-founder of MatterCompilers and Corporate Innovations Lead at UP Global.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnother thing we wanted to do with the classes was build a community of app developers,\u201d said Meehan. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have other people to talk to who are working on the same kinds of problems you are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Encouraging teamwork was the focus of this year\u2019s event which Phelps said is an important skill for future jobs, but also makes the experience more fun and less pressure.<\/p>\n

Luke Kanies, of Puppet Labs, said he could see a significant improvement in the quality of the apps this year and was impressed with partnerships that the students had with industry and research labs. \u201cThe organization has learned a lot over the year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"francis\"<\/a>
Francis Vo shows off his app to play Texas hold ’em.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several app developers had real clients: Three of the apps were built for the Corvallis Transportation System to help bus riders navigate the bus system, Francis Vo and Meghan Gorman competed with an app sponsored by Intel that displays a game from multiple phones on one TV screen, and the overall winning team, OccuChrome, developed an app for an Oregon State chemistry lab to read enzyme slides using a smartphone camera, and analyze the chemical reaction.<\/p>\n

Others brought apps that they developed for their own use. Greg Luis-Ramirez competed with a quiz app that he uses as a study tool, and Michael Woffendin and Nick Piatt created an app that uses ratings that friends give restaurants to find one that everyone will agree on. \u201cI have very indecisive friends,\u201d Piatt said with a smile.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a generous donation by Urban Airship, and swag by Google, the participants also received some great prizes. The overall winner received a $200 Amazon gift certificate and all other winners received $75 Amazon gift certificates.<\/p>\n

\"Joe<\/a>
Joe Runde helps Luke Kanies test out the OccuChrome app that reads and analyzes enzyme slides.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overall Winner<\/b><\/p>\n

OccuChrome by Kyle Cesare, Joe Runde, and Kevin Hess
\nOccuChrome automates the process of calibrating statistical models to evaluate reactions on enzyme slides. This will speed up research processes in a lab setting, and may have further uses in the field as a mobile diagnostic platform for doctors.<\/p>\n

Category Winners<\/b><\/p>\n

Usability<\/i>: CorBus by Cezary Wojcik and Russel Barnes
\nCorbus is an app that is meant to assist users of the Corvallis Transportation System. The goal of the app is to provide a quick and beautiful interface that can help users easily plan and navigate the buses of Corvallis.<\/p>\n

Presentation<\/i>: Transport by Chris Vanderschuere, Carly Farr, and Bret Lorimore
\nTransport app for the Corvallis Transit System, which serves to provide bus riders with real-time information about where the bus is and when it will get to your stop.<\/p>\n

Completeness<\/i>: LANREG by Charles Catino
\nLANREG is an event registration web application that is designed to support small to large scale LAN parties. It includes organization, event, and seating chart creation tools along with full PayPal payment integration.<\/p>\n

People’s Choice<\/i>: Profit by Soroush Ghorashi and Chadwick Swenson
\nProfit is a simple mobile app that solves the three biggest problems freelancers and small business owners face: taxes, audit preparation and client tracking.<\/p>\n

–by Rachel Robertson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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