The document provides information about the Google Developer Student Clubs 2022 Solution Challenge competition. It invites university students to build solutions for local community challenges using Google technologies. Some key details:
- Students are asked to develop applications that solve problems related to one of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
- Top teams will receive prizes and mentorship, with the top 3 winners receiving $3,000 each.
- The competition involves registering a team, selecting a development goal, designing and building a solution, testing it, and submitting a demo video by March 31st for judging. Criteria include the solution's impact, and how well it utilizes relevant Google technologies.
- Supporting
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● Grow their knowledge on developer technologies and more through peer-to peer
workshops and events.
● Gain relevant industry experience by solving problems for local organizations with
technology-based solutions.
● Showcase their prototypes and solutions to their local community and industry leaders
What is GDSC?
Google Developer Student Clubs provide students with an opportunity to:
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How to join
GDSC
Kindly Join our community on the Google
Developer Platform
https://bit.ly/GDSC-SSIT
Join and follow us on various platform for
regular news and updates
https://bit.ly/gdsc-ssit-social-links
5. 2022 Solution
Challenge
Have you ever thought about building an application or tool
that solves a problem your community faces? The year
ahead brings more opportunities for helping each other and
giving back to our communities.
With that in mind, we invite students around the world to join
the Google Developer Student Clubs 2022 Solution
Challenge! Where students from around the world are invited
to solve for at least one of the United Nations' Sustainable
Development Goals using Google technologies.
6. The Google Developer Student Clubs 2022 Solution Challenge is a
competition for university students to build solutions for problems in
the community.
What's this Solution Challenge?
The contest seeks to invite students to develop solutions for
local challenges that their communities are facing, using one or
more Google technologies and other tools.
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Mission
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.
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Our Timeline
Sep-Oct 21
Jan 11
Solution Challenge
registration opened
Apr 22
Jan-Mar 22 Feb-Mar 22 May 22
March 15
Submissions
open
Top 10
teams announced
Dec 21
February
January March
March 31
Submissions
close
April
Top 50
Global teams & top
regional winners
announced
May July
June
Final
solution
submission
Top 3
Winners
announced
10. 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.
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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
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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
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An overview of how to participate in the Solution Challenge.
Overview videos
Calling All Student Developers! UN 17 Sustainable Development
Goals overview and ideas
How to build a project
walkthrough
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Workshops and learning opportunities
Workshop
timeline
Step 1 Step 3
Info session Hackathon
Design Day
Topics
1. Cloud
2. Android
3. ML
4. Flutter
5. Google Assistant
6. Others
Technical
workshops
Step 2:
Choose either path
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Solution Design 1: Design Sprint
Identify a Problem, Define a User, Find a Solution
link
Solution Design 2: UX and Product Design
Practice the design process
link
Solution Design 3: Technical Architecture
Practice designing software systems
link
Design Day is a day of workshops designed
for attendees to:
• Learn and practice product design skills
• Get started on Solution Challenge
projects
• Have fun!
Bonus
Every attendee of the Design Day event will
receive a Google Developers Workshop
Participant badge.
Design Day
17. 2022 Solution Challenge: Lead Guide
Hackathon
A virtual event consisting of a 36-hour hackathon with
mentorship and fun challenges based on 2022 solution
challenge.
It will bring student developers to compete and develop
creative solutions to real-world problems based on united
nations sustainable goals.
The hackathon is designed to solve local community
problems, spark innovation, attract and educate new talent in
accordance with the 2022 solution challenge.
The themes for hack the solution have been derived from
united nations SDGs.
20. 2022 Solution Challenge: Info Session
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 ambulances to getting an appointment
with a virtual doc.
2021 Solution Challenge winners!
Eye of God - India
“Eye of God” offers an easy-to-use navigation system
for visually impaired people, acting as their “virtual-
cane” to help them navigate to their destination all by
themselves without needing the assistance of other
people.
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● “We develop our app with the aid of
Google's Code Labs, which are so
useful and easy to follow.”
● “Flutter helped us to become more
productive. It helped me to build these apps
with less code, and less worrying about the
basic features”.
What participants said in the past
● “GCP allows us to be ready for every
stage of deployment, ultimately
worldwide deployment at multiple
regions”
● “TensorFlow is a really easy tool to use
to get started. it was easier to build
neural networks using TensorFlow.”
● “It's smooth and fast. It made me say goodbye to
SQL and move towards the NOSQL database as
it's more robust, easy to use and powerful.”
Hello Everybody.
This is madhuvanthi. I am a 3rd year cse student. I am the women in tech club lead of Gdsc ssit. I am also a Google Women Engineers Scholar.
GDSC is basically a community of passionate students who gain knowledge in a peer to peer learning envi and solve for local community prob using google tech, and thereby showcasing it in a higher level – to your community and industry leaders
Perks: Connections, gain knowledge, swags, resume
We have a gdsc in our clg – gdsc ssit, It was started this year with a motive to support and encourage students to pursue their interests in tech.
It is conducted once a year where students around the world basically build solutions for the problems in their community using google technologies and other tools for one of the sdg goals.
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
Focus on UN sdg goals
How clearly u explain what the problem is and how relevant your soln is to the prob
The future scope of your project
How effectively u have used the feedback
Tech:
Point 1
How well u have used the google tech
Video demo – if its working soln, if soln highlights google tech,
Point 4
Be sure to share this resource page with your community https://developers.google.com/community/gdsc-solution-challenge/resources
[IMPORTANT] Please make sure to tag all Solution Challenge related events using the Solution Challenge event topic
It is basically a series of workshops.
3 parts:
Design Sprint – how to identify users, how to interview them and build a solution
UX & Product Design – construct wireframe, learn about design principles and ux design process
Technical Architecture – how to choose appropriate tech and define constraints
