# Back from JavaOne

> JavaOne recap: Groovy won the "Geek Choice Award" and took first place at the Script Bowl, demonstrating its power on Android and with GrooScript.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2014-10-07 | Topics: conference, groovy, java | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/talks/2014/10/07/back-from-javaone/


After some trouble getting to San Francisco because of strikes, transportation issues, burnt control tower, and more... I managed to land to JavaOne! I missed my own first talk and I was glad and grateful that Cédric could present it for me.

At JavaOne, the Groovy project received the award from ZeroTurnaround / RebelLabs, for the "Best Tech - Geek Choice Award" :

> Youpi mon projet a reçu un prix de l'innovation ! Très fier de ce que mon équipe a accompli !
> 
> [Instagram](https://instagram.com/p/tuU20HgNf7/)

And at the famous "Script Bowl" competition, I managed to get on the first place of the podium, along with the Clojure representative, showing Groovy traits, Groovy on Android, and GrooScript transpiling Groovy into JavaScript.

> [#groovylang](https://twitter.com/hashtag/groovylang?src=hash) still first on the podium of the [#JavaOne](https://twitter.com/hashtag/JavaOne?src=hash) script bowl, along with [#clojure](https://twitter.com/hashtag/clojure?src=hash) too :-) Thanks to all the attendees!
> 
> — Guillaume Laforge (@glaforge) [October 2, 2014](https://twitter.com/glaforge/status/517485161496051712)

And last but not least, my presentation slides...

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