A community waste disposal app has won five Nigerian teenage girls the Technovation international app challenge, beating 10 other girl teams from different countries and walking away with a $10 000 (around R120 000) cash prize.
Praise David-Oku, Sonam Kumar, Nmesoma Ogbonna, Charlotte Takem and Grace Akpoiroro, from Cross River State, make up Team Charis and recently competed in the competition which challenges girls from the ages of 10 to 18 to build a mobile app that will address a community problem and submit it in the elementary or high school category.
“We first met in high school as classmates and met again at the iKapture Afterschool Academy where we decided to take up the challenge of programming for the first time. Despite our diverse backgrounds, we have dedicated ourselves to doing this project because of our collective interest in creating positive change in our communities,” the team’s blog reads.
Team Charis used the MIT App Inventor platform to create the Discardious Android app and entered the high school category in the regional leg of the competition back in February this year.
Congratulations. Up Cross River State! Up Nigeria!!
TBW