As part of the Web Programming course, second-year Informatics students traditionally participate in a hackathon in collaboration with companies from the ITSubotica2030 organization. The day before the hackathon began, each team was assigned an external mentor from one of the local IT companies. The mentors defined three additional functionalities that the teams needed to implement and integrate into their projects, which they had been working on since the beginning of the semester. After a 10-hour hackathon at the School, the teams presented their solutions to other students, professors, and mentors from IT companies. During the hackathon, the teams received support from mentors, course professors prof. dr Zlatko Čović and Helena Manojlović assistant, and other teams.

Participating teams:

SG (Stefan Grbin)
Pipeline (Andrej Dvornić)
ZH (Mihajlo Rangelov)
GirlTech (Kinga Šereš)
DnD (David Fodor, Dominik Stančulov)
Cats (Eniko Poljak, Fabian Černak)
Teammates (Anet Oravec, David Bašić Palković)
Humanz (Robert Varo, Dominik Hupko)
Lite (Balint Balog, Viktor Šeregi)
Timski igrači (Željko Rašović, Aleksandar Dekan)

This year, the hackathon was supported by mentors from several companies:

Studio Present

David Šili, frontend developer
Slobodan Adamović, frontend developer
Adam Horvat, app developer
Viktor Nađ, app developer

Inspira grupa

Boris Evetović, software developer
Stevan Kazi, software developer
Mateja Šefčić, software developer

icbtech

Armin Salai, UI/UX designer
Kristijan Pinter, medior web IoT developer

This type of project work represents a new approach to developing the digital competencies of future software engineers. Due to the needs of students and the local economy, the Subotica Tech-College of Applied Sciences and IT companies will undoubtedly continue their successful collaboration.