StudentAmbassadors/Activities/AppContest
IMPORTANT NOTICE : The FSA program is now set to transition to Campus Clubs
A new program is coming to campuses this September that is aligned with the existing Mozilla Clubs structure and will provide a unified model for participation on campuses around the world.
Mozilla Campus Clubs will be replacing the FSA program and so we won’t be accepting any new Firefox Student Ambassadors. The listed FSA Activities won’t be carried any more. You can find more information about the future of the program in this post, where you can also leave your questions.
Learn more about the Campus Clubs at: campus.mozilla.community
Student App Contest
Thanks for your interest in submitting an HTML5 app for the 'Student App Contest' (that has already been submitted to the Firefox Marketplace). At the end of every 3 months, the HTML5 app that receives the most votes by the FSA Executive Board is eligible to receive the following:
- Mention in the monthly newsletter
- Very Splendid Gift Package
In order to be eligible to receive these rewards and recognition for your app, please first review the rules posted below. Any questions can be sent to firefoxstudents@mozilla.com
Good luck!
Rules
The rules and regulations around who is eligible to participate in the contest can be found here.
An overview of the rules and regulations are featured below:
- You may only submit an app that you, yourself, have created
- All HTML5 apps submitted to the contest must have already been accepted into the Firefox Marketplace and tagged with #firefoxstudents (and each participant must be able to provide proof that it has been accepted)
- All apps must be submitted by the date detailed in the newsletter in order to be considered for the contest. All submissions that come in after that date will not be considered for the prizes.
- All apps must be submitted in the manner outlined in the newsletter in order to be placed on the ballot
- Only registered Firefox Student Ambassadors are eligible to submit an HTML5 app for the contest
- Firefox Student Ambassadors are only allowed to submit ONE app for consideration each month. If you submit more than ONE app to the contest, none of the apps you submit will be eligible.
- Winners will be selected by the FSA Executive Board based on the adherence of the app to the theme selected for that month.
- Winners of the contest will be notified within ten days of the contest's completion and will be responsible for providing an address to which the prize will be shipped within the following month
How to Enter
To enter, please do the following:
- 1. Create an app that aligns with the theme (listed below)
- 2. Submit it to the Firefox Marketplace and tag the app submission with '#firefoxstudents'
- 3. Complete this form here
All entries for each season are due by 25th of the last Month of the season(Eg:- for Aug-Oct, last date is 25th Oct.)
Tools and Tutorials
We would like to make the development easier by sharing Mozilla Appmaker for beginners and the collection of Video tutorials by our developer team for developers to start well.
Tools
Mozilla Appmaker is a simple tool which will be very useful for developing the HTML5 based Firefox OS mobile applications. The developers need not have the awareness about the coding. We need not type even a single line of coding. It is fully open source and free. Keep in mind that this is only a learning tool for beginners!
Check Mozilla Appmaker
Tutorials
Here we would like to share the official tutorials developed by experts in Firefox OS application development.
- Firefox OS: The platform HTML5 deserves -- Web Components and Mozilla Brick
- Web Activities - Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
- WebAPIs - Firefox OS for developers: the platform HTML5 deserves
- Firefox OS for developers -- Firefox Marketplace
- Firefox OS for developers -- App Discovery
- Firefox OS for developers -- the platform HTML5 deserves
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - What makes a good HTML5 App
- App Basics for Firefox OS - The Manifest
- App Basics for Firefox OS - Testing in the Simulator
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Testing on the Device
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Adding your App to the Marketplace
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Web APIs
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Web Activities
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Push Notifications
- App Basics for FirefoxOS - Offline Functionality
- App Basics for FirefoxOS -Where to Learn More
Show Your Demo
Mozilla Developer Network loves to show the demo developed by developer. If you feel your code can be open source and it is purely based on HTML5, CSS and Javascript. Upload your code and show your demo world wide.
For more details check out Demo Studio|MDN
Contest Theme
Themes
- Aug-Oct: Camera and Alarm API's - Develop an Application using atleast one of these API's. Get creative!
Deadline: Oct 25th,2015
Submissions
August-October
Theme:Camera and Alarm API's
Firefox Marketplace apps
2013 Submissions
https://wiki.mozilla.org/StudentAmbassadors/Activities/AppContest/2013
2014 Submissions
https://wiki.mozilla.org/StudentAmbassadors/Activities/AppContest/2014
2015 Submissions
https://wiki.mozilla.org/StudentAmbassadors/Activities/AppContest/2015