After three days of PAU exams in Aragon, between June 2 and 4, around 3,400 students have headed to Salou. This town in Tarragona, known as the beach of Zaragoza due to the high number of Aragonese second homes, becomes the celebration destination. Without yet knowing their grades, the young people take a week of vacation dedicated to leisure and disconnection.
Developing applications to manage youth chaos in coastal areas 📱
The massive influx of students to Salou poses a logistical challenge. From a software development perspective, mobile applications could be implemented to monitor the density of people on beaches and beach bars in real time. Using geolocation APIs and mobility data, these tools would alert about crowds. A reservation system for hospitality services would also be useful, avoiding queues and optimizing resources. The backend, based on Node.js and NoSQL databases, would manage traffic spikes of up to 10,000 concurrent users.
The syndrome of passing by absolute majority in the nightclub 🎉
While students dance to the rhythm of reggaeton, many have already done mental calculations: if they add up their university entrance exam points and their high school grades, the result is a barely passing grade. But in Salou, the cutoff mark is different: the ability to hold out until 6 in the morning without losing your flip-flops. Some parents, from Zaragoza, check the weather report and wonder if drinking in the street on the beach counts for the voluntary phase. The only sure thing is that the beach factor raises the average more than any exam.