Coding Girls: 46 students develop an app with Marvel.
“Creating an innovative and useful application that promotes Gorizia as a city of culture, providing users with a wide range of information, cultural resources, and recommendations on how to experience the city in an innovative manner.” The challenge launched by University of Udine, as part of the Coding Girls Programme, was accepted by 46 students from two schools (Duca degli Abruzzi and Istituto G. D'Annunzio) organised into nine teams.
While the students were working to develop an app with Marvel software, at the University of Gorizia announced that it had won a tender from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) worth €1,500,000. The “Covert” national research project, coordinated by the University of Udine, focuses on preventing and blocking cyberattacks and monitoring possible network and device vulnerabilities. The result filled the entire university community and the young students hosted for the day and their teachers with great pride [see news: Sicurezza informatica e ricerca, l’Università di Udine vince un bando Pnrr da 1,5 milioni di euro, in Italian].
At the end of the joint work and elevator pitches, jurors Alessia Bressan, Cristiano Gosetti, and Maria Elena Zuliani, Computer Science students at the University of Udine, presented the following awards based on innovation, usability, inclusiveness, creativity, communicability:
Most Innovative Project
GOtoGO - Team Taboxa, Duca degli Abruzzi
GOtoGO is an app to promote sightseeing and cultural events in our city.
Team: Beatrice Perez Piferrer, Caterina Tomic, Fabio Tomba, Francesco Davini, Beatrice Moretti, Alessandro Verardo
Project with Best Usability
GoriziaTour - Team GoGirls, G. D'Annunzio
An app to explore and learn about the main events, attractions, and resources of Gorizia.
Team: Giulia Fain, Ginevra Lotito, Anna Visnjic, Ela Aras, Sofia Luterotti
Most Inclusive Project
GO! - Team Babas, G. D'Annunzio
An app for sightseeing in Gorizia.
Team: Isabel De Matteo, Vanessa Cociancig, Hana Najar, Luisa Cleto, Linly Zhou (1ALS)
Best Presentation
Next Stop Gorizia! - Team I Fantastici 5, G. Dannunzio
An app for tourists to Gorizia.
Team: Yasmine Aissi 2als, Riccardo Confettura 2als, Tommaso Tonso 2als, Matteo Conestabo 2als, Leonardo Fantaccini 2als
Most Creative Project
trivia.go - Team Fantastici 4.5, G. D’Annunzio
An app providing information on history, events, parks, and other curiosities of Gorizia via mystery boxes.
Team: Samuel Grion, Tiziano Bernardi, Andrea Wang, Massimo Modotti, Emiliano Pussig
The hackathon was coordinated by Prof. Antonina Dattolo from the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Udine.
A special thanks to Cristiano Gosetti who organised the challenge for the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, in constant connection with Cecilia Stajano and Valentina Gelsomini.
