My blog

In our ECIP course we were given a task to design and if possible, also develop an application. The app should be a health and exercise related and targeted for people of Oulu. So it should somehow make it easier to people to get exercising. In our group we thought that it’s not necessary to actually move with our app. So we are going to make a feature that will help the user to find also all kinds of “bench sport” events. Our main goal is to make people move more than usual. You don’t have to actually go jogging or go to the gym to get moving. Moving also consist about things like walking, doing yoga, walking your dog and so on. Even thought we want to get people moving more we want to also encourage those who still are sitting on couches. And that is why we provide a possibility to go watch other people to exercise. That is because watching sports could possibly be the spark which lights up the fire towards exercising. Feeling the victories or highlight performances ca...

I’m a 22-years old guy from Oulu, Finland. I’ve lived in Oulu my whole life so far. Even thought, I’ve enjoyed my time here I feel like that in the future it would be refreshing for me to get some new experiences as an exchange student. Possible exchange locations could be Russia, USA or some South American countries. I spend my free time playing Finnish baseball and reading books. I’ve been into baseball since I was a child and currently, I’m playing it on the second highest tier as a semi-pro. The books I read are usually business related. Now I’m studying English at the ECIP- course and one of the exercises is to write a blog during the course. So now on I will keep writing it quite regularly and the topics will usually be tech-related. I got my high school diploma from Kastellin Urheilulukio (Kastelli Highschool of Sports) and after completing my military service I started my studies in University of Oulu. First my only goal was to get into the Oulu Business School and Comp...