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Geeks made a robot during Startup Weekend Vilnius
2015
Apr 28

Vilnius’ Planetarium was busy as never this weekend! It's was crowded with a bunch of designers, developers, business developers, gurus of marketing, analysis, sales and other enthusiasts. Apps to make your cooking, learning, shopping and other habits more effective are coming live! Guys even developed a robot here.

Check out the pictures here.

Some facts:

Youngest participant – 15 years old designer

Oldest participant – 44 years old tech fan

Geography – participants from Lithuania, Australia, Canada, Germany, Russia, Czech Republic.

After 54 hours of work and fun winners were announced:

1st place – Veri Fake, program, which detects fake Facebook profiles. Guys won a trip to Silicon Valley, powered by SEB bank

2nd place – Play 4 work, gamified youth employment program. This team was the most international one as Canadian, Russian couple and Lithuanian teamed up on Friday. 2nd place was awarded with 1 month working place at SHX from Startup Highway and with 2 tablets from Microsoft Lithuania.

3rd place – SideWalk – three geeks created a robot in two days! SideWalk should deliver goods from super markets to your doorstep. This team was awarded with consultations from startup.lt. Moreover, this robot was announced as the best technical achievement and got 2 smartphones from Microsoft Lithuania and features CV and job adds from ITjobs.

Flower Reminder, advertising app, based on geofencing technology, which reminds about buying flowers to your bellowed ones, was awarded with Oculus Rift from Nextury Ventures for the best design.

4G Internet during event was successfully provided by Omnitel.

Startup Weekend Vilnius was organized by Enterprise Lithuania and Startup Lithuania.