This document provides information about the 2023 Solution Challenge kickoff event and timeline. It outlines the 14 steps to participate in the challenge, which includes forming a team, selecting a UN development goal, building a solution using Google products from January to March, submitting a demo video by March 31st, and the announcement of top solutions in May, June and August. It also describes Google products that could be used like TensorFlow, Google Cloud, Firebase, Android, Flutter and Progressive Web Apps. Sample project architectures are shown to illustrate how products can be combined.

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Timeline Checklist
❏ Step 1: Join a Google Developer Student Club (anytime!)
❏ Step 2: Start hosting info sessions, hackathons, and design days (Jan-
Feb)
❏ Step 3: Form a team (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 4: Select United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 5: Identify a Solution (Jan-Feb)
❏ Step 6: Learn & build (Feb)
❏ Design the front-end interface
❏ Design the back-end technology
❏ Step 7: Test your solution (Feb-March)
❏ Step 8: Iterate (March)
❏ Step 9: Record a demo video and submit project information between March 17 and March 31st
❏ Step 10: Top 100 solutions announced (May)
❏ Step 11: Top 100 mentoring (May)
❏ Step 12: Top 10 finalists announced (June)
❏ Step 13: Top 3 winners announced live on YouTube (August)
❏ Step 14: Celebrate all the 2023 Solution Challenge participants!
Design & Build
Submissions &
Judging
February - March
March - August
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Getting Started
January - February

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4 "easy" steps to success
Project Planning
Idea Prototype Build & Test Deploy

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Google Product Overview
TensorFlow Google Cloud Firebase Android Flutter
PWAs
Your
Project

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○ Why choose it?
○ Beginner friendly platform that helps you to
build and deploy ML models
○ What can it do?
○ End-to-end ML pipelines
○ TensorFlow.js for JavaScript
○ TFLite for Mobile & IoT
○ Learning resources:
○ https://www.tensorflow.org/resources/learn-ml

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○ Why choose it?
○ Global infrastructure
○ Sustainability
○ What can it do?
○ 100+ products to pick from
○ Databases, serverless, ML, IoT,
operations, etc.
○ Learning resources:
○ https://cloud.google.com/training

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○ Why choose it?
○ The tools and infrastructure you need to
build better mobile and web apps.
○ What can it do?
○ Databases
○ Hosting
○ Authentication
○ ML
○ much more!
○ Learning resources:
○ https://firebase.google.com/community/le
arn

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○ Why choose it?
○ Build web applications that have been
designed so they are capable,
reliable, and installable.
○ What can it do?
○ Capabilities of a Native App
○ Reach of a Web App
○ Single codebase
○ Learning resources:
○ https://web.dev/learn/pwa/

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○ Why choose it?
○ An open platform that powers over 2.5
Billion devices from your phone, watch,
TV, and car.
○ What can it do?
○ High quality, native app
○ Optimized for gaming, finance,
productivity, etc.
○ Dedicated store to distribute apps
○ Learning resources:
○ https://developer.android.com/courses

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○ Why choose it?
○ Build, test, and deploy beautiful
mobile, web, desktop, and embedded
apps from a single codebase.
○ What can it do?
○ Multi-platform support
○ Similar to native app performance
○ Single codebase
○ Learning resources:
○ https://flutter.dev/learn

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Ways to combine products for your projects
Sample Architectures

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Tech Stack
Sample App #1
Mobile App
TensorFlow
Lite Model
TensorFlow
Model
Training
Images
Get Labels
Send Images

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Tech Stack
Sample App #2
Mobile App
Cloud
Functions
Cloud
Firestore
Firebase
Auth

17. Thank you!