![2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session
IMPACT - 60 POINTS
1. Does the entry establish a clear challenge focused on one or more
of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals? Is it
explained in a clear manner with specific Sustainable Development
Goal targets they are looking to solve for? [10]
2. How effectively does the solution address the challenge identified
by the team? [20]
3. Is there evidence of a next step? Does the team display a plan for
future extension if they were to continue? [10]
4. Is there evidence that the solution has been thoroughly tested with
real users? [10]
5. Is there evidence that the solution was iterated upon based on user
feedback? [10]
TECHNOLOGY - 40 POINTS
1. Does the solution implement all the technical components needed
to solve the challenge? [10]
2. Has the team clearly explained what Google technology they used,
why and included guidance on how to run their code? [10]
3. Does the video demonstration show the working solution and how
a user will interact with the solution? Does the demonstration
highlight how the Google technologies are implemented and also
mention the value the technology provides the users? [10]
4. Has the team made effective product and technical decisions for
their solution? [10]
A panel of judges from Google will use the following criteria to
evaluate and score all submissions.
Judging criteria](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/2022solutionchallengeinfosessionpresentation-220219152442/85/2022-solution-challenge-info-session-presentation-gdsc-fulafia-10-320.jpg)
2022 solution challenge info session presentation - gdsc fulafia
- 2. Tasiu Kwaplong (Ex-lead, GDSC FULafia) 2022 Speaker Federal University of Lafia The Google products you can use for your project. | Share experience.
- 3. Ismail Umar (Lead, GDSC FULafia) 2022 Speaker Federal University of Lafia Overview of the Solution Challenge
- 5. Overview of the Solution Challenge
- 6. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session Overview Prizes Judging criteria Timeline FAQs A look back at 2021 Solution Challenge Table of contents
- 7. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session What is the Solution Challenge? The Google Developer Student Clubs 2022 Solution Challenge mission is to solve for one of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals using Google technology. Created by the United Nations in 2015 to be achieved by 2030, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed upon by all 193 United Nations Member States aim to end poverty, ensure prosperity, and protect the planet.
- 8. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session
- 9. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session All participants receive a Google Developers digital profile badge and an official certificate. Prizes Top 50 teams Receive customized mentorship from Googlers and experts to take solutions to the next level, a branded T-shirt, and a certificate. Top 10 finalists Receive additional mentorship, a swag box, and the opportunity to showcase solutions to Googlers and developers all around the world at Demo Day live on YouTube. Contest Finalists In addition to the swag box, each individual from the additional seven recognized teams will receive a Cash Prize of $1,000 per student. Winnings for each qualifying team will not exceed $4,000. Top 3 winners In addition to the swag box, each individual from the top 3 winning teams will receive a Cash Prize of $3,000 and a feature on the Google Developers Blog. Winnings for each qualifying team will not exceed $12,000.
- 10. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session IMPACT - 60 POINTS 1. Does the entry establish a clear challenge focused on one or more of the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals? Is it explained in a clear manner with specific Sustainable Development Goal targets they are looking to solve for? [10] 2. How effectively does the solution address the challenge identified by the team? [20] 3. Is there evidence of a next step? Does the team display a plan for future extension if they were to continue? [10] 4. Is there evidence that the solution has been thoroughly tested with real users? [10] 5. Is there evidence that the solution was iterated upon based on user feedback? [10] TECHNOLOGY - 40 POINTS 1. Does the solution implement all the technical components needed to solve the challenge? [10] 2. Has the team clearly explained what Google technology they used, why and included guidance on how to run their code? [10] 3. Does the video demonstration show the working solution and how a user will interact with the solution? Does the demonstration highlight how the Google technologies are implemented and also mention the value the technology provides the users? [10] 4. Has the team made effective product and technical decisions for their solution? [10] A panel of judges from Google will use the following criteria to evaluate and score all submissions. Judging criteria
- 11. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session Getting Started ❏ Step 1: Join a Google Developer Student Club ❏ Step 2: Register for the 2022 Solution Challenge by submitting this form. ❏ Step 3: Form a team ❏ Step 4: Select a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Design & Build ❏ Step 5: Identify a Solution ❏ Step 6: Learn & build ❏ Design the front-end interface ❏ Design the back-end technology ❏ Step 7: Test your solution ❏ Step 8: Iterate Submissions & Judging ❏ Step 9: Record a demo video and submit by March 31st, 2022 ❏ Step 10: Top 50 solutions announced (mid-April) ❏ Step 11: Top 50 mentoring (May) ❏ Step 12: Top 10 finalists announced (June) ❏ Step 13: Top 3 winners announced live on YouTube (July) ❏ Step 14: Celebrate all the 2022 Solution Challenge participants! 2022 Timeline
- 12. Meet 2021 Solution Challenge winners!
- 13. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session To read the full list of frequently asked questions head over to the FAQ page at goo.gle/solutionchallenge. If you have a question that is not answered below, please reach out to your me.. FAQs ● Can my solution solve a problem outside of the scope of the 17 Sustainable Developer Goals? ● Can one student or team submit with multiple submissions if they’ve contributed to both projects? ● Can I still participate in the Solution Challenge if there is no Developer Student Club at my university?
- 14. We can’t wait to see what you’ll builds! goo.gle/solutionchallenge-infosession
- 16. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session Follow and/or share the below learning paths and codelabs to improve your skills and project. You can find pathways & codelabs links here. Self-paced codelabs
- 17. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session One popular method you can use to identify your solution is an exercise developed at GV (formerly known as Google Ventures), called The Design Sprint. Usually done as a 5-day exercise, The Design Sprint is a flexible framework for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users. It allows teams to validate ideas before going through the energy of building a product. 1. Understand ○ User Journey Mapping ○ User Interviews ○ Experience Mapping 1. Define ○ Design Principles ○ Success Metrics & Signals 1. Sketch ○ Crazy 8's 1. Decide ○ Present Solution Sketches 1. Prototype ○ Storyboard ○ Prototyping Tools 1. Validate ○ Usability Study ○ Cognitive Walkthrough Design Sprint Kit
- 18. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session 2021 Solution Challenge winners! Read more about them here. DementiCare- Singapore DementiCare is an app equipped with many features to compliment caregiving for Dementia patients such as sending urgent notices, SOS, and creating a patient dashboard. Helppier- Canada Helppier's goal is to encourage a new social norm of volunteeringin people's’ daily routines in their local neighbourhoods. The app facilitates neighbours helping neighbours through a gamified volunteering system. QRegister- Turkey removes the need of physical paper receipts upon transactions and instead encouragesthe use of QR codes for users to virtually keep track of all their receipts. E-Owl - Egypt is a virtual education platform for professors to be able to create virtual meetings, exams, posts and for students to be able to check their grades and assignments online. I-RISE - Philippines (I-RISE) is a disaster risk management system that aims to bridge the information gap between local government units, disaster risk management offices, and the island communities of Tubigon, Bohol. Flow - Cameroon Flow is a mobile application that helps users easily find clean water sources nearby using Google Maps. GameYour Fit - Indonesia Game Your Fit keeps track of your movements in real time using your smartphone's movement sensors to promote exercising by gamifying the whole experience. Eye of God - India Eye of God” offers an easy-to-use navigation system for visuallyimpaired people, acting as their “virtual-cane” to help them navigate to their destination all by themselves without needing the assistance of other people. Swaasthy- India Swaasthy is an app made to uplift user's health. It contains everything from medicine reminder functionality to make an SOS call to nearby ambulancesto getting an appointment with a virtual doc. SimplAR - Germany SimplAR assists affected people by leveraging the power of Natural Language Processing: the user can take a picture of any text, which is then simplified into an understandableversion, following the Plain Language guidelines.
- 19. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session 20 ● “Developing an Android app from Android Studio is so easy and enjoyable. Android Studio's new features, including Flash Run and ConstraintLayout, help us to build our app faster, easier, and better. We develop our app with the aid of Google's CodeLabs, which are so useful and easy to follow.” TensorFlow ● “TensorFlow is one of the open source tools we use to perform supervised learning for detection. TensorFlow is a really easy tool to use to get started. We chose to use TensorFlow because it is easy to build neural networks using it. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of tools, libraries and community resources that lets researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and helps developers to easily build and deploy ML powered applications.” Google Cloud Platform ● “GCP allows the apps to be 100% deployable on the cloud. With that vast features available and readily available integration of machine learning online, GCP allows us to be ready for every stage of deployment, ultimately worldwide deployment at multiple regions in multiple countries.” Firebase ● “I loved Firebase more because of its easiness and scalability and the approaches that we can do. It's smooth, fast and amazing. It made me say goodbye to SQL and move towards the NOSQL database as it's more robust, easy to use and powerful.” ● “Flutter helped us to become more productive. It helped me to build these apps with less code, and less worrying about the basic features. The Hot Reload features saved a lot of my time.” Flutter Android What participants said in the past
Editor's Notes
- #6: [IMPORTANT] Please be sure to make a copy of this presentation and add in additional details/slides to tailor it specifically for your community. [Please read] We want you, your core team, and anyone from your community interested in Solution Challenge to register. Encourage your community members to join the journey and get access to support and resources as they work on their solutions. Even if you have a team already, please register as an individual as goo.gle/solutionchallenge. [Note] After you and your community members register, please ask them to RSVP to upcoming events from the GDSC Solution Challenge chapter: Solution Challenge Kick Off Event - January 19th, 2022
- #8: Idea: Discuss the United Nations goals with your community and ask them either through chat or live stream which SDG they are most interested to solve for. You can review the UN goals in depth at https://developers.google.com/community/gdsc-solution-challenge/UN-goals
- #17: Be sure to share this resource page with your community https://developers.google.com/community/gdsc-solution-challenge/resources