Mobile Application Development
Category: Prejudge Project
Type: Individual
Grade Level: 9-12
Deadline/Testing: 16-Feb
Topic
(New 2021-22) Develop a new mobile application for the students at your school. Your app should include a scheduling feature allowing students to input their schedule, information about extracurricular activities, a lunch menu, the ability to email teachers and staff, and a calendar that is updated with school information.
Event Guidelines
- The individual or team will research the topic and then create a mobile application on the topic.
- Competitors must prepare the program. Advisers and other individuals are not permitted to help.
- Competitors may use one of the following platforms to develop the mobile application: Google’s Android, Apple iOS, or Microsoft Windows Phone.
- The entry must include the source code and screenshots of the GUI in PDF format for review.
- The solution must run standalone with no programming errors.
- The application may deploy from a tablet, but must be smartphone deployable.
- The application does not need to be available for download from a digital-distribution multimedia content service such as Google Play, Apple Store, or Microsoft.
- Submit the project electronically on the entry form.
- May need to Zip the folder with project files before submitting.
- Cloud Storage URLs are acceptable.
- Name file: MobileApp_chaptername_lastnames_year (i.e. MobileApp_NDE_Garrison_20XX)
Eligibility:
Each chapter may submit entries created by an individual or team of two (2) or three (3) members in Grades 9 through 12. No more than one (1) team member may have competed in this event at a prior NLC. All team members must be registered for the State Leadership Conference to participate in this event.
Judging
Entries must address the topic. Entries will be judged by a panel of judges according to the rating sheet. All decisions of the judges are final.
Who Goes to Nationals?
The first-, second-, and third-place winners of this event will be entered in the Mobile Application Development event at the National Leadership Conference, providing they have not entered this event at a previous National Leadership Conference. In the event of a team entry, no more than one (1) member may have competed in this event at a previous National Leadership Conference.