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First Tech Center works in IPS BlackBerry

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The center is a call to innovation and entrepreneurship in relation to the development of new applications for mobile phones tablets and other BlackBerry devices.

class=”c2″> The Polytechnic Institute of Setubal (IPS) hosts since last December the first Tech Center of BlackBerry domestically. Located on the premises of the School of Technology of Setúbal IPS, this center is part of the academic program of the BlackBerry and materializes in space with all the resources, tools and equipment required for testing and development of new applications for mobile phones tablets and other BlackBerry devices.

Armando Pires welcomed by the IPS have been chosen to host this first Tech Center. The President of IPS believes that this is “a demonstration of the capability and spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship of the institution ‘, which was also recently awarded first place in the national competition Enhancement of Knowledge and Development of Entrepreneurship in 2013, sponsored by COTEC Portugal .

“With the BlackBerry Academic Program, and through the partnership with the Polytechnic of Porto, is intended to awaken the entrepreneurial capacity of the community and especially the students, giving them the opportunity to create new business ideas and the advantage of being able participate in projects with other BlackBerry communities’ claims João dos Santos Vinegar , vice president of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal.

No previous contact with the BlackBerry, this charge admits to Week that the choice of IPS for this joint venture has to do with the fact that you want to IPS ‘always at the forefront of innovation and consider the great potential determinant associated to the existence of students and faculty in the School of Technology who teaches courses in the area of ??information technology ‘, says John Vinegar dos Santos.

Nuno Pereira , director of ESTSetúbal-IPS assumes that the institution has in its favor ‘a community of young, dynamic students with specific training in computer science, which, being inserted into Campus which has a number of other schools and other facilities, will enable the creation of multidisciplinary groups, fostering innovation within the IPS and benefiting the users of BlackBerry. “

The center will operate Monday through Friday, between 9 am and 18 pm and will be open for tours, meetings with national and international community BlackBerry, workshops , training and consultancy. The Tech Center is led by research scholarship Renata Coutinho appointed Ambassador of Setúbal Tech Center, and recently the only BlackBerry Elite Portugal. According eat this responsibility, the main objective of the center is’ innovate, create an atmosphere of coworking and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit of the students. “

Besides all the advantages afforded by the presence of the Tech Center in IPS, the academic community can participate in projects with other BlackBerry communities. Vinegar João dos Santos ensures that with this center will be ‘present students, professionals and companies in the region the benefits associated with developing applications for BlackBerry 10 and, in parallel, contribute to strengthen the community of development experts and designers BlackBerry in Portugal ‘.

The first initiative

The first initiative of the Tech Center was well received in the academic community. The Hackathon was a challenge put to the test the creative ability of teams in just 10 hours, had to develop applications for BlackBerry.

Participating teams created projects with many different uses, from applications on wines to the social networking and games. The winning team, the Hotwheels, composed by Bruno Malheiro, Paulo Mendes and Diogo Martins, students of the degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at ESTSetúbal-IPS, created the Racing Game application, a game that consists of transporting a ball through a maze, in which the movement of the ball is generated by moving the phone.

Renata Coutinho, Ambassador of the Tech Center, proved to be ‘very satisfied’ with the accession to this initiative, which included 30 participants, including students, programmers and designers . “The teams were very well prepared, which is a proof that the people here have the capacity to innovate and create applications’. Given the success of this first marathon application development, Renata Coutinho advances that repeated Hackathon is expected in the first half of 2014.