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Apps for Good Awards 2015
The winners of the national Apps for Good Awards 2015 were announced on 18th June at the Barbican in London, celebrating the next generation of problem solvers and digital makers: young people who are creating tech products to change their world for good. At the awards event, 18 teams of students, aged between 12 and 19, pitched their app ideas to a panel of judges comprised of industry leaders in a bid to
be crowned the winner in one of six theme-based categories. All teams also competed to be chosen as the winner of the People’s Choice Award in an online public vote.
The winning app teams were: Category Information Powered by Thomson Reuters Sustainable Communities Sponsored by Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Connected Communities Sponsored by TalkTalk
Productivity Sponsored by SAP Learning Sponsored by Samsung
Saving, Spending and Giving Sponsored by Barclaycard
People’s Choice Award Sponsored by Essence
Winning Team One Click Politics
Gets young people tuned into politics GardenKing
Learn about the plants in your garden and how to care for them
Sound Clash Listen to music with friends across multipledevices BOOKd Take your reading beyond the classroom My World of Atoms Brings the periodic table to life Jobs 4 You
Find and apply for student-friendly local work Who Cares?
Supporting young carers across the UK Also at the awards, the Excellence Prize for Coding, which is powered by Facebook, was presented to Codecepts from Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, in
recognition of the technical skills demonstrated in their competition entry. With the support of Apps for Good and their sponsors, the winners of the six thematic categories and the People’s Choice Award winner will now work with
development agencies putitout and Gourmet Pixel to launch their apps on to the market in early 2016. Debbie Forster, co-CEO of Apps for Good comments, “We’d like to offer our congratulations to all the winners this year! Once again, we’ve been really
impressed by the careful thought and creativity displayed by the finalists, with all of the teams having worked exceptionally hard to create a product that can truly make a difference to their world. We’d also like to thank our amazing educators and experts who have helped all our student teams this year. Our mission at Apps for Good is to encourage students to take an interest in technology, by showing them how can be used to solve real-world solve problems and drive change, and I really feel that that was reflected in this year’s entries. We’re very excited to see the finished apps when they are launched on to the market in early 2016.”
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www.education-today.co.uk July 2015 Priestley College, Warrington Denbigh High School, Luton
Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham
The Boswells School, Chelmsford Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith School Wick High School, Caithness
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