The winners of the hackathon were announced at the Samsung Android Bootcamp intensive course held at the Altair Children's Technopark of RTU MIREA

On April 20-21, a hackathon was held at the Altair Children's Technology Park of RTU MIREA, which completed a number of events as part of the annual practical intensive course at Samsung Android Bootcamp. The winners were mainly representatives of the Samsung IT School and the Samsung IT Academy, who work on the basis of RTU MIREA.

The Samsung Android Bootcamp intensive course took place from April 8 to April 21 as part of the Samsung Innovation Campus global initiative. The traditional annual intensive course is aimed at developing Android application development skills. During the three-week course, seventeen teams attended a series of master classes, completed home assignments, and took part in a hackathon. Schoolchildren and students from fifteen cities of Russia took part in the intensive course.

The event was aimed not only at deepening practical skills in Android application development, but also at developing “soft skills” of teamwork, communication, and a product approach to solving technical problems.

Samsung IT School trainers and instructors conducted a series of master classes for students and schoolchildren studying the development of mobile applications in Java and Kotlin in the Samsung Innovation Campus programs. The master classes were devoted to interface design in Figma, working with XML mark-up, the specifics of the Spring Framework, as well as Spring Security tools. Students took a deeper look at client-server interaction using Retrofit and delved into working with Google Maps and mobile device cameras.

The intensive hackathon ended at the Altair Children's Technopark of RTU MIREA. Participants from other cities joined the event online. In the final, the teams presented concepts for mobile applications with a client-server architecture that uses the capabilities of a smartphone’s camera or geolocation.

The commission evaluating the applications of the intensive course finalists included Samsung representatives, master class presenters and graduates of the Samsung IT School.

•         The first place was taken by the CyberKuznets team: Nikita Alekseev, Alexander Popov (Samsung IT Academy at NArFU), Maxim Goncharov, Nikita Novichkov (Samsung IT Academy at RTU MIREA). The winners offered their implementation of the popular computer game Among Us, where users need to complete a team task focusing on markers on the game map. The movement of players and all game interactions are controlled by the geolocation of the participant’s phone.

•         Second place was taken by the Normis team: Dmitry Alekseenko, Makar Syshchikov (Samsung IT Academy at RTU MIREA), Denis Vikoruk (Samsung IT School, online group), Ekaterina Petrenko (Samsung IT School at the Altair Children's Technopark at RTU MIREA). Participants presented a project that allows users to take a photo of a place they like and place a pin with its location on the map. All users can see each other’s tags and evaluate based on the photo which of the tagged places they would like to visit.

•         Third place was shared by two teams: Yabloko (Apple) and Breaking the Pattern.

The Yabloko team included Maria Zemlyanskaya, Vladislav Pavlik, Emil Ilyasov (Samsung IT Academy at RTU MIREA), Vladislav Karasev (Samsung IT School at the Altair Children's Technopark at RTU MIREA). The team members have developed a task tracker that allows to distribute tasks among work groups and monitor their completion.

The Breaking the Pattern team includes Sofya Baranova (Samsung IT School at Technolab Academy, Obninsk), Arina Gazhina (Samsung IT School at the Altair Children's Technopark of RTU MIREA), Konstantin Snastin, Egor Trifonov (Samsung IT School, online group). The participants presented a project for monitoring the expiration date of food in the refrigerator - a mobile application that reminds users that the product needs to be eaten or cooked on time.

Samsung IT School is a federal social and educational program for training future IT specialists, which is part of the Samsung Innovation Campus global initiative. The program is aimed at schoolchildren in grades 9–10 and includes studying the development of mobile applications in the “from idea to distribution” ideology in the Java programming language for the Android platform.

Since the start of the program in 2014, 5,356 graduates in Russia and Armenia have completed the one-year program with a Samsung certificate, 12% of them with honors. Today, face-to-face classes at the Samsung IT School are held at 46 sites in 38 cities, as well as remotely. The program was twice awarded the national Runet Prize: as a separate project in the “Science and Education” category and as part of the global Samsung Innovation Campus initiative in the “Education and Personnel” category.

Samsung IT School has already opened enrollment for the 2024/2025 academic year. High school and college students under the age of 17 are invited to participate in the program. You can find out more about the project and apply for training on the Samsung IT School website.

Altair Children's Technopark of RTU MIREA occupies a leading position among all other sites implementing the Samsung IT School program. A branded computer class from partner company Samsung has been opened on the basis of the technology park, which uses a comprehensive integrated solution Samsung School (displays, tablets) and laptops for ease of programming.

In future, graduates of the Altair Children's Technology Park of RTU MIREA can continue their studies at the University under the Samsung IT Academy programs. RTU MIREA and Samsung Electronics have been cooperating since 2017. RTU MIREA is the first university in the Russian Federation to implement all four tracks of the Samsung IT Academy: “Artificial Intelligence”, “Internet of Things”, “Mobile Development”, “Big Data”. Trainers of the Samsung IT Academy program successfully use educational and methodological materials developed by experts from the Samsung Research Center.

More details about the event on the website.