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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
at 7/17/2015 10:26:00 am

52 comments:

  1. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:26

    Seen

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    1. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:26

      As u celebrate Eid-el-Fitr, may d living God meet ur needs even b4 they arise, and u wil b blessed beyond measure.

      May our blessed Lord guide, and protect ur household, and everytin dat u lay ur hands on prosper. I wish all of u good health, joy, luv, grace, favour, and above all God's blessings.

      Sweet kisses, and luv y'all.
      Long live LIB.

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    2. TAMARA SPLASH17 July 2015 at 22:36

      Very good

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  2. AbokiDaWarriBoy17 July 2015 at 10:29

    Aww genius! Proud of them all.

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  3. AC£S17 July 2015 at 10:30

    Thumbs up girls

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  4. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 10:31

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

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    1. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 10:57

      How will you get it?

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

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    2. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 11:17

      Block head jeez!!

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  5. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:31

    Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

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  6. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:31

    Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

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  7. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:31

    Woooooooow, congratulations to them. Linda take note!

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  8. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:31

    Congrate gals I lyk dat!!

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  9. BONARIO NNAGS17 July 2015 at 10:31

    Congratulations to them, cute and brainy angels.

    ~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA

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  10. ujunwa17 July 2015 at 10:32

    Lucky girl.. Congratulations

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  11. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:32

    A huge congrats to them.

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  12. ujunwa17 July 2015 at 10:32

    Lucky girls.. Congratulations

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  13. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:33

    Wow. Kudos girls, thanks for doing us proud.

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  14. Unknown17 July 2015 at 10:34

    Really? Amazing

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  15. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 10:35

    Congrats 2 dem

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  16. Jules17 July 2015 at 10:36

    Congrats to 'em...

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  17. Mzz_Mary17 July 2015 at 10:37

    Congrats

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  18. Gabby17 July 2015 at 10:38

    Women are really moving the world..


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  19. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 10:39

    Fabulous.

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

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  20. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 10:48

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

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  21. Mihearty17 July 2015 at 10:59

    Congrats girls

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  22. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:02

    Amazing....go girls!

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  23. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:08

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

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  24. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:09

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

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  25. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:12

    Seen

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  26. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:13

    wow, awesome female developers. kudos to u.

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  27. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:16

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

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  28. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:22

    Awwww! Congrats to them... Beautiful girls .


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  29. Unknown17 July 2015 at 11:43

    Wow, really awesome. Congrats to them.

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  30. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 11:50

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

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  31. Celine Oma17 July 2015 at 12:05

    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.

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  32. Anonymous17 July 2015 at 12:11

    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.

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  33. Unknown17 July 2015 at 12:11

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

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  34. LazyCoder17 July 2015 at 12:20

    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...

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  35. Unknown17 July 2015 at 12:47

    Congrats

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  36. Unknown17 July 2015 at 12:48

    Congrats

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  37. Unknown17 July 2015 at 12:58

    Go girls.....

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  38. Unknown17 July 2015 at 13:16

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

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  39. Ikuku AmStrong17 July 2015 at 13:55

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

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  40. Unknown17 July 2015 at 22:59

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

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  41. Anonymous18 July 2015 at 11:51

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

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  42. Anonymous20 July 2015 at 01:40

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

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  43. Unknown20 July 2015 at 14:13

    Congratulations girls....Nigerian girls re going gaga

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  44. Anonymous24 July 2015 at 11:31

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

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  45. Unknown27 July 2015 at 13:11

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

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