It’s been quite a busy time for OuluSES.
Right after we landed to Oulu after visiting a huge start-up conference Slush in Helsinki we started to get everything ready for the Hands on event: the Mini Apprentice.
Monday afternoon was far from quiet when we got 12 teams to Business Kitchen and at the same time our chairman Annika was hosting a dinner for the Rails Girls coaches. Our blissfully unaware Mini Apprentice contestants were now invited to sit down and listen carefully when two start-up companies Oikian Solutions and Greenline revealed their challenges. The clock was already ticking and teams started brainstorming.
24 hours later all the teams and both companies got to meet up again in Business Kitchen where contestants presented their ideas. It was great to see the variety of approaches teams had and how well they were prepared to explain them, because if you can’t make the idea clear, no matter how good, it is forgotten quickly. Companies surely got lots of far thought ideas to implement. On Wednesday Business Kitchen was full of people, again. Now we were celebrating the Grand Opening of Business Kitchen and there the winners of the competition were announced.
Congratulations to Team Bachelors and Team Artifex!
In the weekend it was time to dive into the magical world of Ruby on Rails in the form of Rails Girls. There’s been a lot of coding hackathons before in Oulu, but never an event just for girls and with such a fun attitude. The event was implemented with both theory and practice in mind to get everyone active: the programming is not something that the engineering nerds do, it is a state of mind to solve the problems and think solutions that you can benefit yourself from. There was so much excitement among girls and we had out always great afterparties.
What can we say…it was a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious week!