A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
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Entrepreneurial students, keen to challenge the likes of Angry Birds and the Facebook Application, have been encouraged to take part in “The App Challenge”.
The challenge aims to find the next big smartphone application and all University of York students are eligible to enter. Teams will be expected to develop a business plan for an app which could end up being downloaded by millions of users.
Run in partnership with The Distance, a creative digital agency, the organisers say participants need no technical knowledge to enter the competition.
Anthony Main, Mobile Director of The Distance, told The Yorker that over 120 students have signed up to the mailing list for the challenge and almost 100 students have got in touch through Facebook.
The challenge, which aims to “provide an insight into all areas of app development from ideas and research/analysis, to marketing, commercialisation and branding/design”, will be running through until January 18.
The winners will see their app prototyped by The Distance and will also be offered the opportunity to attend a multi-day iPhone development course that is being introduced by the University.
Main said that the winners will need a great idea and in addition to a “good USP it needs to be well justified”.
He said he is expecting good entries as “the students at York certainly seem very enterprising and very focused on personal and professional growth. The wide variety of disciplines based on campus has provided a great diversity of entrants with very different approaches to the problem.”
Competition organisers told The Yorker that: “There is still plenty of time for students to get involved. Any potential applicants should check out the Facebook page for full details. All our slides for the previous events are available to download.”
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