Toi Ohomai students are adding to the TECT National Sevens tournament experience by developing an app for fans to follow their favourite teams and keep track of results over the two days.
The TECT National Sevens, which has been held in the Bay of Plenty region six times, will be hosted in Tauranga for the first time this weekend since its inception in 1975.
With a total of 28 teams from around the country playing 78 games, including pool games on Saturday before finals games on Sunday, a group of students from Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology's Rotorua and Tauranga campuses have worked closely with Bay of Plenty Rugby to develop the app to make following the tournament easier.
The app is available at nationalsevensapp.nz and can be saved to a homescreen. It has been developed as a progressive web app (PWA), which is a new technology used to load websites fast on mobile devices and can show content even without an internet connection.
Over 16 weeks the students, including Level 7 project students from the Rotorua campus Corban Hirawani, Peter Bowman and Kimberley Mackay and Level 5 student Jackson Currie from the Tauranga campus, supervised and mentored by senior tutor Jeffrey Kranenburg, came up with the digital technology to allow people to see the draws, keep track of the scores, pool games, elimination rounds during the tournament as well as information about the teams, sponsors and past winners.
