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 2023 is the ninth 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 their corresponding repositories on GitHub. Starting with the 2017 challenge, you may view team profiles, videos, and apps online through the ECCE GitHub web page.
For 2023, teams participating the challenge were tasked to create an app that addresses issues related to one of two topics: Conservation and Protected Areas and Urban Ecology. A total of 23 teams completed the challenge to create new apps that addressed a variety of themes, with all submissions completed by April 6th, 2023. 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 2023 App Challenge: https://esricanada-ce.github.io/appchallenge/2023/. You will find each team's details presented, along with links to live versions of their apps hosted online, documentation, and video presentations.
Through rounds of internal judging and external judging, we are happy to announce the winning teams for the 2023 App Challenge.
Please join us to give a big congratulations to the winning team:
- Team GeoJAM from the British Columbia Institute of Technology
The first runner-up is:
- The Tree-o from the University of Waterloo
The second runner up is:
- Team GIS from McMaster University