Photo og the three students from La Salle-URL that won the international Code4life competition
Three students from La Salle-URL win the international Code4life competition. Author: Roche. 2017. License: All rights reserved.

The Code4life college competition has been a programming challenge with two phases: a national one in each participating state and a global one.

In the national challenges, the students formed teams of three and tested their programming skills against other teams of students in their country. In Barcelona, ​​it took place from 10 to 19 November and the teams had to program the artificial intelligence of the robot of a game. This consisted of obtaining a diagnosis of a patient and analyzing it correctly; According to the diagnosis, the teams developed and manufactured a medication to treat the disease.

The La Salle-URL team was in second place and accessed the following level: Code4life Global Challenge. In this challenge, the first two classifieds of the state competitions participated through videoconferencing. The students received a real case from Roche to solve it with the guidance and the tutoring of experts in the multinational: to schedule the visualization of the information of medical studies through a form and a chatbot.

Borja Pérez, Sergi Simó and Esteve Genovard were the winners of the final and in January 2018 they will visit the Roche headquarters in Basel (Switzerland), to present their project.