The Sarajevo School of Science and Technology (SSST) hosted the first ever Google Bootcamp Workshop in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The workshop was organized in cooperation with Google Startup Weekend and with support from Google’s Student Ambassador and the first BiH student to win Google’s prestegious «Dr. Anita Borg» scholarship, Selma Causevic.
The three-day bootcamp brought together young JavaScript developers across the country with the aim to further educate them in the field of HTML5 technologies. Lectures and workshops provided participants with knowledge on how to use Google’s JavaScript Framework and AngularJS to build a dynamic web interface, and they were able to put that knowledge to use in the practical portion of the workshop. Participants had the opportunity to pitch their ideas and compete for some worthy prizes, such as visit to the Blackbox Mansion in Sillicon Valley, CA (airfare and accomodation included), consultancy services and yearly web hosting packages, and office space in Sarajevo.
Overall, there were 80 participants, 17 mentors, and 10 team members attending the event.
SSST is the best and most renowned private university in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It recently opened a new, state-of-the-art campus in the country’s capital of Sarajevo. The new campus takes up 10.000m2 (cca.108.000ft2) of land, and with building costs of six million euros, it is the biggest private investment made in the country in the past two decades.
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