GDSC VU have organized an in person intro session on "Google Solution Challenge 2023".
During the event, the purpose of the challenge was introduced and the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals were briefly discussed. Participants, mostly members from GDSC VU Chapter, talked about the problems they are personally facing related to the SDGs and shared examples of real-world problems that need solutions. For ideas we have arranged panel talk with GDSC VU Lead Zainab Sehar and GDSC VU Core Team members Mustabshira Zahoor,Muhammad Abubaker and Haseeb Ahmed , to solve students queries and helped them how they can implement their ideas that global/local communities facing.
This led to excitement among the students to participate in the Google Solution Challenge 2023.
At the end we have played game based on quizzes related to GDSC and Google Solution challenge,top three winner got datacamp subscription.
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Google Solution Challenge 2023
1. Intro Slides Below
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3. Welcome In Google Developer student Club
Zainab Sehar Here
Virtual University of Pakistan
BS Software Engineering
GDSC Lead ,VU
Cyber Security enthusiast
Blogger
@zainabsehar001
6. Intro Session
Google Developer Student Clubs (GDSC) are community groups for
college and university students interested in Google developer
technologies. Students from all undergraduate or graduate
programs with an interest in growing as a developer are
welcome. By joining a GDSC, students grow their knowledge in a
peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions for
local businesses and their community.
https://g.co/dev/dsc
What is DSC,future events, community platforms etc
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8. Build Better, together
•Connect
Meet students interested in developer technologies at your university.
•Learn
Learn about a range of technical topics and gain new skills .
•Grow
Advance your skills, career and chance to grow personal and professional
level.
•Swags
Win lots of swags.
Why Should you join DSC?
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9. What you'll gain:
Study Jams,Workshops,Hackathons and much more!
●Meaningful connections with leaders, change makers
and problem solvers in various careers in technology
●Insight and advice when pursuing a career in tech
●New technical and development skills to further your
tech careers
●Chance to win various prizes through the competition
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10. Developer Community Programs
Students:
Google Developer Student Clubs
Professionals:
Google Developer Groups
Google Developer Experts
Women in technology:
Women Techmakers
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11. How women's can get
herself in tech?
•Don’t be scare
•Believe in yourself
•Attend networking events
•Be aware about emerging trends
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12. I challenge you to be
• Have an open mind, stay relevant by reading about
emerging trends
• Investigate and don’t hesitate to join in embrace Google new
challenges head on and never stop learning Groups
• Act confident
• Reach for management positions .Do not expect them to
come to you
• Make sure people notice your work. Tell peoples about your
achievements.
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14. ●Kick start
●Hash code
●Code Jams
●Annual Solution Challenge
Google Global
Competition
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15. YOU CAN SIMPLY
BECOME A MEMBER BY
LOGGING IN
LOGIN:
https://gdsc.community.dev/
the-virtual-university-of-
pakistan/
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17. 2023 Solution Challenge: Kickoff Event
What is the Solution Challenge?
The Solution Challenge is Google's global annual
contest that invites all Google Developer Student Club
members (including you!) to develop solutions to real
world problems utilizing Google technologies.
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18. What are the UN 17 Sustainable
Development Goals?
Google Solution Challenge is a competition organized by Google that encourages
individuals, student teams, and organizations to develop innovative solutions using
Google's technology to address societal and environmental problems. The challenge
typically invites submissions in various categories, such as sustainability, education,
healthcare, and others. The winning solutions may receive prizes, recognition, and
support from Google to bring their ideas to life.
19. UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, the United
Nations adopted the 17
Sustainable
Development Goals
(SDGs), addressing some
of the world’s biggest
challenges in an
interconnected way.
20. Eligibility
Who can participate?
● University students (undergraduate and
graduate)
● Above the age of majority in the country, state,
province, or jurisdiction of residence (often this
age is 18 years old)
● Open to any GDSC members (including leads
and core team)
● Each person can only join one team
21. Eligibility
Team Building Rules
● All team members must join a GDSC chapter
● At least one person on the team must be a GDSC
member at their own university. Other team members can
join a GDSC chapter at any university
● Teams can be 1 - 4 people (no more than 4)
● Team members can be from
○ Different universities
○ Different GDSC chapters
○ Different countries
22. Timeline
2.5 months to build solutions
3
January April
Jan 18
Solution
Challenge
Kickoff Event
February March May June
Learn & Build Phase
March 17
Submissions
Open!
March 31
Submissions
Close!
July
Mentorship
Phase
June 2
Final Solution
Submission
May 3
Top 100 global
team winners
announced!
August 3
Solution Challenge
Demo Day +
Top 3 Winners
Announced!
Solution evaluations!
Round 1
Solution evaluations!
Round 2
August
June 19
Top 10
global team
winners
announced!
Demo Day
Preparation
Jan 11
Announce Solution
Challenge!
Website goes live and
registration opens
23. Timeline Checklist
❏ Step 1: Join a Google Developer Student Club (anytime!)
❏ Step 2: Start attending info sessions, hackathons, and design days (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 3: Form a team (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 4: Select United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 5: Identify a Solution (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 6: Learn & build (Feb)
❏ Design the front-end interface
❏ Design the back-end technology
❏ Step 7: Test your solution (Feb-March)
❏ Step 8: Iterate (March)
❏ Step 9: Record a demo video and submit project information between March 17 and March 31st
❏ Step 10: Top 100 solutions announced (May)
❏ Step 11: Top 100 mentoring (May)
❏ Step 12: Top 10 finalists announced (June)
❏ Step 13: Top 3 winners announced live on YouTube (August)
❏ Step 14: Celebrate all the 2023 Solution Challenge participants!
Design & Build
Submissions &
Judging
February - March
March - August
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🛠
🙇
🏾
♀️
Getting Started
January - February
24. Submitting a Solution: Submission Criteria
PROJECT SETUP
1. Please clearly describe
the challenge you are
solving for using a
problem statement.
(5 POINTS)
2. What United Nations'
Sustainable Development
goal(s) AND target(s) did
you choose for your
solution? What inspired
you to select these
specific goal(s) AND
target(s)?
(5 POINTS)
IMPLEMENTATION
3. Describe the architecture
that your team chose for your
solution. What are the high-
level components of your
architecture? What is the
responsibility of each
component?
(5 POINTS)
4. Which specific products
and platforms did you
choose to implement these
components and why?
(5 POINTS)
FEEDBACK / TESTING /
ITERATION
5. Feedback from users, testing, & iteration
● Walk us through the steps you took to test your
solution with real users (outside of your team).
Provide three specific feedback points you
received from real users.
● What did you learn and how did it help
improve your solution? What are three
specific things you implemented and
improved for your solution based on the
feedback from users?
(5 POINTS)
6. Code testing and iteration
● Highlight one challenge you faced while
building your code, including detail on how
you addressed the issue and the technical
decisions and implementations you had to
make.
(5 POINTS)
SUCCESS AND COMPLETION OF
SOLUTION
7. How does your solution address the challenge
you are looking to solve for? Describe the
success of your solution using metrics, goals,
and outcomes. What Google technologies are
you using to track usage analytics? Using
relevant (or meaningful) statistics, concrete data
or numerical examples where possible. Or, where
numbers aren’t possible to use, please describe
your project’s impact using cause and effect.
(5 POINTS)
8. Upload a copy of your demo video
(maximum 2 minutes). Make sure the video
demonstrates a working application and how a
user will interact with the solution. Make sure
the video also makes effective use of the
chosen Google products. Feel free to include
infographics or visual representation of the data
in your demo video.
(5 POINTS)
SCALABILITY /
NEXT STEPS
9. What do you see as the
future / next steps for your
project? How would you
expand your solution to
reach a larger audience?
(5 POINTS)
10. Explain how the
technical architecture of
your solution could support
(in its current state or with
minor changes) scaling to a
larger audience.
(5 POINTS)
These are the questions on the submission form that you will be
asked to provide responses for.
25. Prizes
All Participants
● Google Developers
digital profile badge
● Official Solution
Challenge Certificate
Top 100 Teams
● Customized mentorship
from Googlers and experts
to take solutions to the next
level
● Solution Challenge
branded T-shirt
● Top 100 Solution
Challenge Certificate
Top 10 Finalists
● Continued mentorship through
Demo Day
● Custom Top 10 Swag box
● Social recognition
● Opportunity to showcase solutions
to Googlers and developers all
around the world at Demo Day live
on YouTube
● Top 10 Solution Challenge
Certificate
Contest Finalists
In addition to the swag box,
each individual from the
additional seven recognized
teams will receive
● Cash Prize $1000
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
● Cash Prize $3,000
● Be featured on the Google
Developers Blog
Winnings for each qualifying team
will not exceed $12,000.
