全球程序員參加比賽開發新冠肺炎APP

導語：現在科技公司發力，開啟程序比賽，希望開發出追蹤軟件，症狀篩查app, 一起來學習下

With much of the world under orders to stay at home, would-be volunteers have had a tricky time joining the fight against covid-19. Programmers, however, need not leave their desks. Many are participating in coding competitions (called hackathons) intended to build digital solutions to combat the pandemic’s effects. #BuildforCOVID19 Global Online Hackathon, which was sponsored by Facebook, Microsoft and numerous other tech companies, received over 1,500 submissions from contestants in 175 countries last month. Its top projects included contact-tracing apps, online symptom-screening platforms and tools to help teachers work better with students remotely. CODE19, a hackathon targeted at battling the outbreak in India, will announce its winners this month. Its leading teams could receive serious money to help further develop their ideas: the contest is promising prizes of up to $10,000 for the best projects. More good ideas are on the way: at least a dozen other covid-themed hackathons are scheduled.

隨著全球很多地區都處於居家令下，想要做志願者去抗擊新冠肺炎已經是一件很難得事兒了。然而，程序員們不需要離開他們的桌子。很多程序員都在參加解碼比賽，這個比賽目的是建立能夠對抗流行病影響的電子解決方式。由臉書，微軟以及很多其他科技公司發起的代號為新冠肺炎全球線上解碼競賽上個月收到來自175個國家的參賽者超過1500份提交的(項目)。 這其中頂尖的的項目包括接觸痕跡應用，網上症狀篩查平臺以及幫助教師更好的遠程教學的工具。CODE19目標是抗擊印度的疫情，在這個月其會宣佈獲勝者。獲勝團隊可以獲得一大筆錢幫助他們進一步深化創意。這次比賽承諾高達1萬美金的獎勵給最好的項目。更多更好的想法還在陸續不斷的產生，至少一些其他的新冠肺炎主題的解碼比賽已經提上日程了。

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總結一下今天所學到的單詞與表達：

1. sponsor /ˈspɑnsər/ v. 支持，自助
2. tech companies 科技公司
3. symptom-screening 症狀篩查
4. serious money 一大筆錢