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When school's out for summer some really innovative things happen. This week The Guardian offices have been host to 10 young software developers. Fuelled by pizza and working together for the first time, the coders have made some really useful websites and smart phone apps.

Rewired State is behind this flourish of innovation, and not just in the Guardian offices, but in 14 centres throughout the country. Rewired State gets people and data together and offers prizes so good that teenagers are willing to spend a week of their summer holiday indoors.

The Guardian's Jemima Kiss reported on the progress of the Young Rewired State team in Brighton earlier this week.

Today the creators presented their apps and websites to a panel of judges in the Microsoft offices in London.

Here are some words from the Guardian's own Michael Brunton-Spall, written as he watched the presentations:

It's rare that I'm as impressed as I was today at the Young Rewired State event.
As a developer of 10 years, with a computing degree and everything, I think some of the young developers demonstrating are already surpassing my own abilities despite many of them not having completed their GCSE's. With a weeks worth of time, they have produced apps that are in many cases, of commercial quality.
The pitching of ideas was fantastic, with Mike Butcher of Tech Crunch pointing out that he's been pitched many apps of similar or worse quality as a VC recently, including by the "business leaders" on the apprentice.
The Guardian is very proud to have hosted two teams this year, and provide them with a place to work their magic and some supportive professional developers to assist where needed.
The experience of working in a room of young developers who are yet to be beaten down by a world of cynicism and managers saying "You can't do that" is a humbling experience that I would strongly recommend to any professional developer.

The spreadsheet below shows the projects presented today. Please let me know when links to the project websites become available and of course any corrections.