[Huawei Developers] Vivi Jiang:
Last weekend 29th April to 1st May, we celebrated at the Universidad politécnica de Cataluña the HackUPC 2022. A hackathon (also known as hack day, hackfest, datahon or codefest; a portmanteau of marathon hacking) it’s a similar event as a design sprint where usually computer programmers and other software developers, including graphic designers, experts on the topic and others, collaborate closely in software projects.

The objective of a hackathon is to create software or hardware that works at the end of the event. Hackathons usually have a specific vision, that can include programming language used, operating system, an app, a API, or a topic and demographic group of programmers.in some cases, there are no restrictions on the software used.

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In this HackUPC edition, 119 projects were created during this hybrid mode event, Online+Offline. HackUPC is a well-known Hackathon in Barcelona (this is the 8th edition). Students attended from some of the best schools in Spain and Europe ⎼ Oxford, Cambridge, EPFL and ETH among others. In order to ensure quality and diversity at the event, hackers must complete an application to attend. HackUPC reviews each application and finally chooses a group of 500 hackers, who they provided with travel grants. During the event, hackers are provided with food, drinks, and gifts.

The HUAWEI workshop lasted around 30 minutes, with a brief introduction to HSD program and HMS Core (such as Analytics Kit, Map Kit, Push Kit, Ads Kit, Machine Learning Kit and our AppGallery Connect).

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HUAWEI and its commitment to Developers​

Huawei it’s committed to digital inclusion for young people and participates actively in events like this one to support student developers. In these activities, hackers have 36 non-stop hours to meet the businesses challenges. The university provides classrooms for teamwork and for rest while the student association provides meals and snacks for participants and sponsors. After 36 hours, the hackers present their project to be qualified.

Participants who wish to enter Huawei Challenge, must first register as a Huawei developer. They will then need to develop an application that uses at least 2 main capabilities of HMS.

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Who were the three winners of HackUPC 2022?​

1st prize: LiuLan, Voice assistant using HMS. They have used: Voice recognition (ML Kit), Push Kit, Map Kit, translation service.

2nd prize: Soft Eyes is an application created with the purpose of helping people who do not see well. Using the HUAWEI Machine Learning Kit, they intend to extract text from an image received by the user and pass the text into speech, all these functionalities supported by HUAWEI technology.

3rd prize: Smack UPC. A video game that used QA technology to obtain a downloadable mobile game. They used Crash Kit to analyze crash cases and integrated analytics to analyze user behavior.

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The judges and mentors, Zhuqi Jiang, Fran Almeida, Tao Ping and Zhanglei (Leron)​

The judges and mentors who participated in this Huawei Challenge were: Zhuqi Jiang, Fran Almeida, Tao Ping and Zhanglei (Leron). They spent the 3 days of the hackathon at their respective stands giving support to all the general doubts of the students - even approaching their sites when the doubts were more specific! In addition, we have collaborations with other departments such as students interested in the HUAWEI internship program, where HUAWEI helped them get in touch with the corresponding team. Also, the device group, gave us important support, providing us with the latest recently released HUAWEI devices so that we can make use of it and show them to the students.

All you developers who follow the path of activities focused on Developers, know that there will be a future AppsUp program, encouraging participants to complete their projects and participate in the AppsUp, just as it was done last year.