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Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Programming hackathon by ArubaCloud and ITBUSINESS

The leading European cloud service provider ArubaCloud and Hungary’s market-leading B2B infocommunications magazine, ITBUSINESS, are organizing a joint hackathon for programmers at the end of October this year, in order to contribute to the discovery and development of IT talents in Hungary.

Teams of 3-5 people representing their educational institution can apply for the 24-hour programming competition. At the hackathon, a task developed by an ArubaCloud specialists will have to be solved in ArubaCloud’s cloud environment.

The hackathon for programmers will start on Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 9 am.

Participation in the competition has many advantages for students:
- gives you the opportunity to get in personal, direct contact with professionals working in the IT sector, investors, and representatives of the most important industry companies
- they can compare their knowledge and creativity with that of other talented students in front of an international jury
- they can represent their university in the competition
- contributes to their future career and professional resume

Conditions for participation:
Teams of 3-5 people representing their higher education institution can enter the competition.
- A maximum of 3 teams can be entered from one university.
- All applicants must have active student status.
- Application deadline: August 31, 2023.
To enter, if the number of entered teams is higher than 6, a qualifier is organized, where the teams must prepare a short essay and a few-minute introductory video. Based on their submitted works, the teams will be judged and ranked by a professional jury after the entry deadline (August 31).
- In the hackathon final, 6 teams, that in the qualifier submitted the highest-quality material based on the jury’s evaluation, will fight for the win.
- The team and team members are registered by the team captain on the REGISTRATION FORM
- Any programming language can be use on the hackathon.
- It will be possible to use your own device (laptop) at the hackathon, but the organizers will provide a device if required.
- The task to be performed at the hackathon must be developed in a cloud environment.
- The necessary cloud service will be provided to the competitors by ArubaCloud.
- Competitors can familiarize themselves with cloud-based systems before the competition: https://www.arubacloud.hu/virtualis-szerverek.aspx
- For testing, ArubaCloud provides a HUF 5,000 voucher. Voucher promocode: HACKATHON2023

More information and registration: https://itbusiness.hu/event/esemenyek_rovat/acitb-phc-2023_en/