Hello, we are a team mostly from Japan (Tokyo). Our team name is called Gundam because we like ガンダム！Gundam/ガンダム is a Japanese giant robot mecha anime series and is very popular.
Although there is an explosion in the popularity of computer science in the United States and such, computer science and engineering is still looked down upon in Japan. Engineers are looked down upon in Japan. We want to change this mindset. If we win, we want to use this opportunity and make it so that all Japanese people will realize the power and potential of coding, computer science, and hackathons!
私たちは日本にいても、Tommyさんも日本が好きです！アメリカなどでは情報工学はもっと大人気になるのに、日本ではまだ工学部は人気ではありません。私たちはその考えを変えたい。もし勝てば、この機会で全部の日本人に情報工学とハッカソンの力と可能性を気づかせます。
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Jumpei Yamane is an accomplished and experienced manager of various hackathons in Japan, and is a prominent advocate/technology evangelist. He currently works at Givery株式会社, and is also the Japanese ambassador for AngelHack, a premier developer relations platform, and is an organization that hosts massive Hackathons around the world. He aims to make hackathons popular in Japan and to make Tokyo the next hub for startup companies. He will be the designer and co-director of this team. Facebook
Takuya is a skilled full stack web engineer who knows Java, Python, Ruby, and Scala. He also knows some iOS and Android. He is very experienced. His profile picture is cute. Website
Cherry is an engineering student at the University of Waterloo, and has a lot of Android and Java experience. She is passionate about Android development, technology, and internet of things. She is currently interning at Microsoft and wants to learn more web development from this hackathon. She will be one of the engineers of this team. She also really likes Gundam. Website
Tommy just recently started app development and web development, and he has fallen in love with it. He used to be a mechatronics engineer at the University of Waterloo, but recently switched to computer engineering so that he can get both a hardware, but more software engineering experience (he loves coding). He has definitely learned a lot of languages very quickly in frosh year, including python, iOS development, html, css, and JavaScript. Facebook
Nam is the most recent member of our team, and has years of experience in Android and Java development, and came to Japan and is permanently working here developing Android applications. He frequently goes to the Tokyo Android Group, and is an avid fan of the mobile OS. He also has some web development experience as well, and can't wait to try and learn more about web development in this hackathon. Facebook