RMIT Google Developer Student Club Visit to PaperCut HQ

By Milindi Kodikara, PaperCut: On Friday 29 April, PaperCut’s Melbourne HQ was paid a visit by winners of the 2022 RMIT Google Developer Student Club’s first annual hackathon.

The challenge of HackVision was to hack a better future for our planet based on one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Justin, Nayli, Isaac, Benji, and Thomas won the ‘Best Pitch Prize’ with their project GreenSnap – an app for best-practice waste disposal and recycling. Given our commitment to sustainability, it was something right up PaperCut’s alley!

As we sponsored their category, part of their prize was to spend a day with PaperCut engineers and developers at our Camberwell office. To give the students a first-hand taste of working in the tech industry. And to introduce them to the exciting world of engineering printer software!

This prize and the hackathon were close to my heart, as the former leader of the RMIT Google Developer Student Club (which is still just a recent memory). During my tenure, my team and I organized this global hackathon. It was important for me to provide university students all over the world with a forum to innovate and hack for the future based on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. It also provided students with an opportunity to gain experience working in a team, a taste of pressure, and a chance to put their knowledge to the test.