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H\u00fcppelaud, a week-long summer school organized by Vabamus\u2019s Youth Engagement Programme NoVa, brought together 67 youngsters from and outside of Estonia to build their first startup prototypes under the supervision of internationally experienced mentors. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Students in the age range of 14-19 gathered in the new coding school kood\/J\u00f5hvi in Ida-Viru County on the eastern border of Estonia. They formed 15 teams building products like getting voice assistance from Chat GPT, measuring your everyday carbon footprint, taking better care of your domestic animals and plants and recycling food.<\/p>\n

\u201cH\u00fcppelaud Summer School is an opportunity for teenagers to build an actual tech product that would help solve some real-life problems while working as a team,\u201d said event organizer Ede Tamkivi. \u201cThis year we chose kood\/J\u00f5hvi as a location because it\u2019s a new programming school that operates without teachers \u2013 just like we do at H\u00fcppelaud where it\u2019s all about teamwork and assistance from world-class mentors.\u201d<\/p>\n

The mentors include developers, designers and data analysts from several well-known Estonian startups like Wise and Bolt. Almost half of the mentors have been participants at H\u00fcppelaud during its previous years. There were also three Stanford students, two of whom were interning at Vabamu, represented among the mentors.<\/p>\n

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In previous years, there have been many participants who study abroad taking part of H\u00fcppelaud, but this year the group was even more international as there were five students from Uzbekistan and mentors arriving from the US, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

In between building their products the participants could also listen to inspirational talks by internationally acclaimed founders and scientists like K\u00e4rt Siilats, the founder of Mojo Capital, Martin Sokk, the founder of investment platform Lightyear, Denys Kovalenko who runs AI experimental team at Bolt and a researcher for antiviral drugs, Carmen Kivisild.<\/p>\n

There were also several outings during the week \u2013 for example a tour to a former coal mine and a visit to the local military base in J\u00f5hvi to learn about how Estonian defence systems operate, especially the cyber security.<\/p>\n

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Among the products that were presented on the fifth day, there was one that was called AquaSweep \u2013 a water surface cleaning device.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have often seen many small pools and ponds full of dirt like fallen leaves and dead bugs and no-one seems to want to take the trouble of cleaning them, therefore we came to the idea of building a machine that would do the job easily,\u201d said two of the team members, Tarvi Imala and Kristjan Kaljukivi. \u201cH\u00fcppelaud is just a perfect place to build a product like this because there are so many smart people around to ask questions from who have built similar products before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mukhabbat Khatamova, who built an app called SafeFood with her team, wants to help diminish the waste of food at restaurants as well as home kitchens. \u201cOur team are from Uzbekistan where it is very common for people to have big parties \u2013 a wedding can easily host 500 guests \u2013 and there is a lot of food, much of it is left over and simply thrown out. At the same time there are people starving somewhere nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Mukhabbat and her teammates really liked the atmoshpere and work discipline at H\u00fcppelaud and the Dev Sprint programming crash course offered by kood\/J\u00f5hvi: \u201cWe are currently studying in the Finest Future programme in Finnish high schools but many of them do not offer any programming courses. This is all completely new to me: being able to come to Estonia and learn programming!\u201d<\/p>\n

H\u00fcppelaud Summer School first took place in 2017 in Tartu and so far, 450 students and a hundred mentors have participated building 70 products. Over the years the biggest supporters have been Wise and Startup Estonia.<\/p>\n

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