Windows AppFest sees 10,000 students unleash their creativity

 

Over 10,000 students across the country joined forces today to unleash their creativity at the Microsoft Student AppFest, a coding event enabling students from colleges of all sizes and stature to develop their ‘dream app’ ideas alongside professional developers using the latest Microsoft technologies.
 
The daylong event was simultaneously held in 54 key hubs in 45 cities across 18 states of India. Each state hosted a bustling hands-on workshop run by a total of 150 Microsoft Student Partners on-call to give students a first-hand app development experience.
 
“An average of 250 students from each college contributed to the total number of 10,000 participating students. The tremendous response amounts to over 60,000 collective hours of coding. An estimated total number of 3,000 full apps were imagined and created during the one-day code-a-thon,” the company said in a statement.
 
The goal of the event was to ignite the imagination of students from colleges representing the full spectra of Indian academia by offering the chance to design the perfect app with guidance from professional developers. Young tech-enthusiasts were given the freedom of casting their app-vision on the latest Windows 8 and Windows Phone platforms; building, designing and testing bespoke apps geared at phones and tablets while receiving guidance and support from Microsoft mentors, trainers and Student Partners to realize their creation.
 
Jean-Philippe Courtois, President, Microsoft International inaugurated the Appfest at Saroj Sadan University of Mumbai, Kalina.

Talking about the AppFest S S Mantha, Chairman, AICTE, said, “Opportunities like these are the game changers in today’s world. These are the skills that the future generations need to understand and learn in a globally collaborative world”.

Participation was inclusive of key metros from colleges such as IIT Mumbai, Ahmedabad but also saw representation from a plethora of vibrant academic and engineering colleges from Tier II and Tier III cities.