“TechFall 2016 Hackathon” winner have been announced

10.11.2016 11:02

"TechFall 2016 Hackathon”, the project that is charactarized as a training course and a competition designed for junior programmers, organized by Barama Innovations and Entrepreneurship Center and WoWoman and supported by Azercell Telecom LLC and Pasha Bank is over. During the final round of the competition held on November 5-6, the teams chose a topic based on a draw and had to stay awake to develop an application within 36 hours. The applications were initially demostrated in front of the technical judges. On November 9, the teams made the presentation of the applications to the professional judges.

As a result, "HelloHackathon”became the winner of "TechFall 2016 Hackathon” competition with the project of "Mango”,while "Hacksters” and "Compilers” took the 2nd and 3rd places, respectively.

The winner of TechFall 2016 Hackathon received valuable gifts from Azercell and Pasha Bank. Also, the 1st runner-up got a coupon for one-month participation in IT courses by Step IT Academy and the 2nd runner-up received presents from Barama Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center.

Hachathon is a series of events bringing programmers together to solve various problems, develop projects and compete with each other. The programmers in Hackathon demonstrate their programming skills within a given period of time. Hackathon events are regularly held in various places over the world usually by gigantic companies, such as Google, Netflix, Facebook, HP and Microsoft.

Ozsut, the chain of restaurants, provided catering services to the teams throughout the project. Official media support to the event was provided by technote.az.

TechFall 2016 Hackathon is primarily aimed at promoting the IT industry in the country and provide the talented youth an opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge and skills in this sphere. Furthermore, the facilitation to the development of various applications and tools and thus enabling the developers to test their knowledge in a competitive environment and obtain new knowledge can also be listed as the major project goals.

Barama Innovation Center was founded in 2009 by Azercell with the purpose of supporting entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan. The Center generally supports the projects and start-ups in information technologies and helps them operate as business units. Barama Center has made a number of achievements during seven years of its activity. More than 100 projects were launched at the center and 40 of them completed successfully. 4 companies successfully running their operations have been established in the Center.