How 25 Students Went from Idea to Deployed App in 2 Hours with Google Antigravity

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On April 9, we ran a Build with AI Code Lab at UTBM's Crunch Lab in Belfort-Montbéliard, France. I co-organized it with GDG on Campus UTBM. Jean-Philippe Baconnais, a Google Developer Expert in Cloud from [Zenika]( Nantes, came in to lead the live coding. About 25 students and developers showed up with laptops. The deal: start with an app idea, walk out with something deployed on Google Cloud Platform. Two hours. No manual coding (or close to it). Most of them had a working app live before the networking break. The three tools The session covered three Google tools in sequence.