02 June 2019 - After the two-day Maker HackaTON competition entitled Create a Memory of Our City, organized by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre Tehnopolis, Nikšić received its first official souvenir - a hexagonal magnet composed of triangles with memories that tourists should associate with the city under Trebjesa Hill.
For the first time in Montenegro, Tehnopolis, the Nikšić-based innovation and entrepreneurship centre, organized the intergenerational maker hackaTON called Create a memory of Our City, with the main theme being the creation of an official souvenir of the town of Nikšić.
Programmers, designers, architects, fine artists, high school students, college students and all innovative individuals who wanted to compete with their teams to create the official souvenir of Nikšić had the opportunity to take part in the HackaTON, which was held from May 30 to June 1, 2019 at IEC Tehnopolis and lasted for 48 hours.
Urban Craftsmen made the souvenir that won the first prize, a team of four individuals from Podgorica, Jovan Milović, Darija Egorova, Vukašin Rakočević, and Haris Bajramović and only one representative from Nikšić, Luka Rakojević.
“We were motivated to apply for the hackaTON by the opportunity to participate in the creation of the Nikšić souvenir, which for us means a symbol of the history, culture and natural beauties of the city. Also, the opportunity to have 48 hours of intensive teamwork sounded interesting to us," said the winners in an interview for Vijesti.
The name for their souvenir derived from the beautiful lyrics of a song by Miladin Šobić, famous Montenegrin singer and songwriter, “Sunce Tebi, Sunce Meni” (English: Sun to You, Sun to Me”).
The winning team won a cash prize of 3,000 EUR.
The best solution has become the official tourist souvenir of Nikšić and thus part of the memory of every visitor of this city.
The second place and 1,500 EUR went to the team "4MFLUCET" from Cetinje, made up of students of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FLU): Marko Petričević, Nikola Matičić, Maša Laković, Matija Nikčević, Aleksandra Mijušković, and Dušan Aleksić.
The event was organized innovatively to create an official souvenir of the city using new technologies, with a special focus on 3D modelling and printing.
The first maker hackaTON was organized by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre Tehnopolis in cooperation with the Municipality of Nikšić, the Ministry of Science of Montenegro and partners from the region: 3D Republic Belgrade and the space for creative activity Deli Niš.
