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Friday, 17 July 2015

Nigerian Teen girls win international award with their waste disposal app

Five teen Nigerian girls won the Technovation international app challenge with their creation, a community waste disposal app. The girls, Praise David-Oku, Sonam Kumar, Nmesoma Ogbonna, Charlotte Takem and Grace Akpoiroro, all from Cross River State, and call themselves Team Charis, beat 10 girl teams from different countries. They went home with $10 000 cash prize

The competition 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 girls wrote on their blog.
Team Charis used the MIT App Inventor platform to create the Discardious Android app. Congrats to them

52 comments:

Unknown said...

Seen

AbokiDaWarriBoy said...

Aww genius! Proud of them all.

AC£S said...

Thumbs up girls

Anonymous said...

I dnt really get dis tho.. but congrats 2 dem

Unknown said...

Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

Unknown said...

Congrate gals I lyk dat!!

BONARIO NNAGS said...

Congratulations to them, cute and brainy angels.

~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

ujunwa said...

Lucky girl.. Congratulations

Unknown said...

A huge congrats to them.

ujunwa said...

Lucky girls.. Congratulations

Unknown said...

Wow. Kudos girls, thanks for doing us proud.

Unknown said...

Really? Amazing

Anonymous said...

Congrats 2 dem

Jules said...

Congrats to 'em...

Mzz_Mary said...

Congrats

Gabby said...

Women are really moving the world..


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Anonymous said...

Fabulous.

And this is the type of news I like to read about.Not wizkid and tania

Unknown said...

Congrats to dem.....

Anonymous said...

Nigerians, being sharp since 1900...
-D great anonymous!

Anonymous said...

How will you get it?

I'm sure you will if it had to do with wizkid and olamide.

Mihearty said...

Congrats girls

Unknown said...

Amazing....go girls!

Unknown said...

wow, awesome female developers. Kudos to you , thumbs up.

Unknown said...

wow, awesome female developers. Kudos to you, thumbs up.

Unknown said...

Seen

Unknown said...

wow, awesome female developers. kudos to u.

Unknown said...

a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said..
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Bigger them i pray though....
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***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

Anonymous said...

Block head jeez!!

Unknown said...

Awwww! Congrats to them... Beautiful girls .


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Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

Wow, really awesome. Congrats to them.

Anonymous said...

Good! But how does the app function to discard litter?!

Celine Oma said...

Yeah dat's how! Not some brainless 17 year old dat won't use her head for anything else other than instagram and pose half naked.

Anonymous said...

It's gud to knw dey rep naija. My team n I av presented similar app in 2013 at IBM event. Glad 2 knw ppl ar nw apprec8in ds concept.

Unknown said...

Wow! This is really cool and I'm so so happy seeing lady's doing programming

LazyCoder said...

Nice One! Gud 2 knw dey rep Naija. My team n I presented similar app at IBM Hackathon in 2013. Am glad ppl nw apprec8 wat seemed 2b a weird concept den...

Unknown said...

Congrats

Unknown said...

Congrats

Anonymous said...

Scary picture.

Unknown said...

Go girls.....

Unknown said...

Proudly. Cross Riverian!!!! Congrats girlsm.m

Ikuku AmStrong said...

Nice. But I hope the organisers won't go ahead to make millions of dollars from it afterwards. #JustBeingCynical#

Unknown said...

Nice one congrats dearies

TAMARA SPLASH said...

Very good

Unknown said...

Congrats to them, we need more of this to develop and engage Nigerian youths.

Anonymous said...

GREAT Unical International Secondary!!
Yepp we taking the world by storm!

Anonymous said...

If you login to the app, it clears your dustbin???

Unknown said...

Congratulations girls....Nigerian girls re going gaga

Anonymous said...

Soo proud of you girls. I know 3 of them.

Unknown said...

I'm so proud of you girls......congratulations

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