Microsoft Srbija presented the Met Mobile Challenge award to the Catch Code team from Prokuplje, developers of a mobile phone application for coding and decoding text messages, which is already available to Windows Phone users around the world via the Microsoft’s website.
Sinisa Perovic of Microsoft Srbija told Tanjug that the company supported the Met Mobile Challenge at the initiative of the Belgrade-based Metropolitan University.
The aim of the competition is to promote the IT sector to the young people in Serbia, he specified.
Professor at the Metropolitan University Miroslava Raspopovic told Tanjug that the Met Mobile Challenge, which took place in Belgrade and Nis, received entries from more than 120 young competitors.
Serbia has great potential to develop and create new jobs in the IT sector, but the young people still do not see this sector as highly prospective, she noted. Raspopovic pointed out that the winners of the first stage of the competition received scholarships from the Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Information Technology.
The scholarships were granted to members of the team which is also presented with the Microsoft award today, and they will be studying software engineering at the University in Nis for the next four years, she added.
The application awarded in the second stage of the competition is already published in the Windows app store (official online application store for Microsoft Windows), and available to all Windows Phone users who want to try this application on their mobile phones, Raspopovic explained.
Source SerbGov
