Samsung and Steel Media launch bada Student Developer Challenge at top UK universities, first prize £5,000
Your chance to be the next big thing for little devices
Samsung and Pocket Gamer's parent company Steel Media are running a nationwide student developer challenge across leading UK universities.
The bada Student Developer Challenge 2011 involves a series of lectures about the platform followed by 24 hour codeathons and then a subsequent development period of around eight weeks to hone the finished app ahead of a final judging session in London.
There are £15,000 worth of prizes up for grabs, including smaller prizes at the initial codeathon stages, plus bada handsets and other goodies along the way. Crucially, Samsung will promote all qualifying apps on its bada store, which could be worth considerably more.
The participating universities so far are:
Oxford University
The University of St Andrews
Trinity College Dublin
King’s College London
Imperial College London
The University of Abertay
The University of York
Brunel University
The University of Nottingham
The competition gets underway with the first lecture at Abertay University in Dundee this Friday at 10am with codeathons kicking off several weeks later.
Even if you’re not competing, the lectures should be interesting to anybody thinking of going into game or app development and hopefully this initiative should spark a new wave of interesting and creative apps on the platform.
All the information you need is on the bada Student Developer Challenge website.
And if you want to compete but aren't studying at one of qualifying universities there's no need to feel left out. You can enter the Wild Card Challenge to create your own app and for the chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
