2020 Developer Circles Community Challenge regional winners announced

It’s often said that one of the best ways to learn is to become the teacher. That’s why, for this year’s Developer Circles Community Challenge, we invited developers and creators to put an innovative spin on technical education by creating tutorials that showcase the capabilities of Facebook technologies.

Participants created step-by-step written tutorials that demonstrated one or more features of open source tools including Hack, React, React Native, PyTorch and Docusaurus; as well as products including Messenger, Spark AR and Wit.ai.

For their efforts, we offered cash prizes, as well as the opportunity to have their tutorials credited and shared with fellow innovators across the Facebook ecosystem.

Our regional winners

As our first step in deciding the overall winners, we’re very excited to announce our regional winners today.

The teams behind the below inspiring tutorials have each won a US$2,000 cash prize, and will also be invited to make further enhancements to their projects by Monday November 30, in order to have a chance at the global prizes announced in mid-December.

Asia Pacific

Intermediate/ Advanced

Create Smarter Messenger Experiences on Facebook with Bright
Messenger, Wit.AI

Covid Center Bot (Intermediate)
Messenger, Wit.AI

It's Now Winter -- AR Pop-up Card Tutorial Series
Spark AR

Beginner

HayWord | Case Study for Making Real Word Chatbot Messenger
React, Messenger, Wit.AI

Spark AR Promo Card Filter Tutorial
Spark AR

IndoNLU: Finetuning Tutorial IndoBERT using PyTorch
PyTorch, Docusaurus

Europe

Intermediate/Advanced

How to make Smoke in Spark AR
Spark AR

Creating colliders with Scripting - Spark AR
Spark AR

DIY Alexa With the ESP32 and Wit.ai
Wit.AI

Beginner

Calendar buddy
React, Wit.AI

Spark AR - Audio Visualizer Tutorial
Spark AR

React Custom Animation Hooks Tutorial
React

India

Intermediate/ Advanced

Shockwave
Spark AR

Reactode
React

Transfer Learning Model hosted on Heroku using React & Flask
React, PyTorch

Beginner

ReactNative Tutor ( Learn React Native On the Go )
React Native

Making Conversational Android Apps with Wit.ai
Wit.AI

DevCoder
Wit.AI

Latin America

Intermediate/ Advanced

Updating the Authorization header with Observables
React

Use data from Facebook API in Messenger Bots
Messenger

Manipulating Multiple Scene Objects with Scripts in Spark AR
Spark AR

Beginner

Create a serverless Messenger bot with Wit.ai
Messenger, Wit.AI

Documenting with Docusaurus Version 2 for beginners
Docusaurus

Spark AR - Art Series
Spark AR

Middle East and North Africa

Intermediate/ Advanced

violence Detection in videos using CNN + LSTM
PyTorch

360 Tours
React

Beginner

Messenger Platform Tutorial (TDD Approach)
Messenger

Customer Service Messenger Bot
Messenger, Wit.ai

Build an Encryptor/Decryptor Chatbot on Messenger using Wit
Messenger, Wit.ai

North America

Intermediate/ Advanced

Your Claw Machine
Spark AR

Wit.ai CI and CLI
Wit.ai

Job Finder Bot tutorial
PyTorch

Beginner

Pneumonet-Building an AI COVID-19 Product with Pytorch
Messenger, Wit.ai

Chatbot for Class
React, Docusaurus

Getting Started with React Hooks: useState and useEffect
React

Sub-Saharan Africa

Intermediate/ Advanced

Rabbit Coder (Spark AR Tutorial)
Spark AR

Pytorch For Information Extraction
PyTorch

Architecting and Designing a React Native Application
React Native

Beginner

Wiki Education
Messenger, Wit.ai

Live Chess
React, Docusaurus

Fruit Classifier
PyTorch, Messenger

Our local language winners

In acknowledgment of our diverse, global community, we’re also pleased to offer a set of special local language prizes for the first time. The below winning tutorials have each won a US$1,500 prize.

Arabic

Intermediate/ Advanced

Violence Detection in videos
PyTorch

Beginner

Adding Drag & Drop to React components
React, Docusaurus

French

Intermediate/ Advanced

Systeme De Reconnaissance Du Cache Nez
PyTorch

Beginner

Learn the basics of Spark AR by creating your FanMask filter
Spark AR

Indonesian

Intermediate/ Advanced

Gameo
React, PyTorch, Docusaurus

Beginner

HayWord | Case Study for Making Real Word Messenger Apps
React, Messenger, Wit.ai

Spanish

Intermediate/ Advanced

Chatbots As A Service con Messenger Platform
Messenger

Beginner

Tutorial web voice control using Wit.ai
Wit.ai

New building opportunities coming soon

Congratulations to all of these trail-blazing winners, and to everyone who took part in the Challenge. Stay tuned to our Facebook Developer Circles page for more information on our global winners announcement in December!

We’ll also be hosting a range of challenges including hackathons, as well as product immersion opportunities, for developers and creators in 2021. Don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter to be among the first to know about these initiatives.

Stay safe and we can’t wait to continue supporting you as you #BuildwithFacebook.