The ECCE App Challenge is an annual competetition that engages teams of students at each of the Esri Canada GIS Centers of Excellence in the creation of innovative GIS applications within a one-week period, using Esri technology and Open Data to address a specific theme. Full details of the App Challenge can be found on the ECCE website. The ECCE App Challenge in 2019 is the fifth iteration of the competition, which has been held annually since 2015. All submissions from student teams participating in the challenge in previous years remain available in the 2015, 2016, 2017 and, 2018 repositories on GitHub. Starting with the 2017 challenge, you may view team profiles, videos, and apps online through the ECCE GitHub web page.
For 2019, teams participating the challenge were tasked to create an app that addresses issues related to either Sustainable Urban Development or Sustainable Communities. A total of 24 teams participated to create new apps that addressed a variety of themes, with all submissions completed by April 4th. The code and documentation from each team is included in the subfolders of this repository, organized by team name. To introduce you better to this year's particpating students, you can 'meet the teams' on the ECCE GitHub webpage for the 2019 App Challenge: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2019/. You will find each team's details presented, along with links to live versions of their apps hosted online, documentation, and video presentations.
All of the apps were reviewed by three external judges, and the team with the best aggregate score was chosen as the winner. Esri Canada is pleased to announce the winning team for the 2019 App Challenge:
SpectaculAR from University of Waterloo
Members of this team win a trip to this year's Esri User Conference in San Diego.
The first and second runners-up for the challenge are, respectively:
- GISquad from McMaster University
- Baes of Fundy from COGS