2023
Projects
Creating their business project by developing a mobile application that meets a need in their community, this is the challenge that our participants took up.
Discover their projects:
Super Scholar App
BEGINNERS DIVISION REGIONAL WINNERS IN NORTH AMERICA
INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE: SEMIFINALIST OF THE BEGINNERS DIVISION
Super Scholar includes many features like worksheets, games, stories, chatbot, and a feedback form for suggestions to improve our app. One of its features is worksheets for grade 1-4 in math, social studies, language arts, and science. The app also has games to engage children while they are learning. Next, it has stories with morals so children can learn about lessons in life. It also has a chatbot to assist children if they need help in a subject. Finally, it includes a feedback form, so users can provide feedback for the app with suggestions and improvements.
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Passioneer App
INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE: SEMIFINALIST OF THE JUNIOR DIVISION
Passioneer is designed to assist teenagers and young adults in making informed career choices. In addition to providing information about various career paths, the app also offers relevant facts about each profession to help users identify its pros and cons. Passioneer includes details about colleges, universities, programs, and internships that are often not covered in traditional school settings. By aligning their values with their career choices, users can make more satisfying decisions and avoid regrets. Passioneer is an essential tool that empowers young people to visualize their desired profession and make enlightened decisions regarding their future.
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NutriWallet App
INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE: SEMIFINALIST OF THE SENIOR DIVISION
NutriWallet is a platform that fosters effective grocery budget management, promotes healthy daily meal choices, and cultivates a supportive community focused on collective growth and well-being.
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TalkitOut App
INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE: SEMIFINALIST OF THE SENIOR DIVISION
PADA is a chatbot created in order to help those who need to talk their feelings and situation out. This chatbot is aimed mainly at teens who are struggling with depression and/or anxiety due to the pandemic and school. Its goal is to help those struggling to figure out their feelings get a hold of themselves. The bot is composed of a reply system and an emergency system to help and alert authorities if the youths need real-life help. It also includes a daily check-up notification system to make sure that our customers are well.
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FaceToFace! App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: BEGINNERS DIVISION GRAND PRIZE
FaceToFace is a truly remarkable app, that will surely help you beat bell’s palsy. Bell's palsy is the facial paralysis of a side of the face, which is common in 15-45 year old's. Many people don't know what bell's palsy is or the symptoms it leads to, meaning people freak out if/when bell's palsy happens to them. As FaceToFace was created by a brilliant young developer, who witnessed the problem in real time, it has all the key features you could think of! From awareness to vision games, it has it all!
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Healthybot App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: BEGINNERS DIVISION FAVOURITE PRIZE
Healthybot is an app that helps users identify high risk skin spots. Users take a photo of the skin spot with their phone and get an instant result of whether the skin spot is benign or malignant using an AI algorithm.
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BeeProtective App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: BEGINNERS DIVISION FAVOURITE PRIZE
BeeProtective is a fun and interactive educational mobile app for kids who is passionate about nature and climate action. The app provides learners about the importance of pollinators, bees. Pollution, pesticides and changes in climatic patterns are main contribution in declining population of bees. The app helps users learn about the bees, spread the awareness and encourage them to take action to protect them for the health of our planet.
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Calmos App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: JUNIOR DIVISION GRAND PRIZE
Calmos is an innovative solution to monitor and support students with an anxiety disorder while anticipating and preventing their anxiety attacks. It is done by a web application synchronized to a connected watch that can track the nocturnal biomarkers of anxiety and a rule based AI. A mobile application was also designed to support students with their anxiety and help them learn how to manage it.
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CalmZone App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: JUNIOR DIVISION FAVOURITE PRIZE
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: JUNIOR DIVISION DEMO PRIZE
The app offers features such as guided meditations, breathing exercises, positive quotes, fitness routines, and dietary recommendations to help users reduce stress and anxiety levels. By providing a comprehensive set of resources in one easy-to-use app, individuals can take charge of their mental health and develop new skills to manage them.
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Travelher App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: SENIOR DIVISION GRAND PRIZE
DESJARDINS GRANT
Travelher aims to help young women of ages 16-25, venture through life with their security being the least of their worries wherever and whenever they are outside. Travelher is an all-in-one women’s safety application that makes use of geo-localization and artificial intelligence to provide its features of Location-based Push-Notifications and Automated Messages to the users’ guardians, SOS Real-Time Location Updating feature, Fake Calls, Safe Itinerary Suggestions through AI to help the user reach their destination safely, Track My Location, Recorded Video Calling feature for evidence purposes, and AI Voice Recognition. With Travelher, travel confidently and never alone.
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TRAYcee App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: SENIOR DIVISION FAVOURITE PRIZE
DESJARDINS GRANT
One third of waste generated by schools is food waste. It has important costs to the students, to the schools, to the food industry and contribute to the pollution of environment. Almost of this food waste is avoidable by improved food management and longer seated lunch time. Moreover, time loss in lineup to get meal in school cafeteria stretch considerably seated lunch time and leads to much more uneated food ending in waste bins. Crowded lineups increase anxiety of students and damages their motivation on afternoon classes. TRAYcee is developed to predict food consumption, delete lineups and improve food management.
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Scadventure App
REGIONAL CHALLENGE: SENIOR DIVISION DEMO PRIZE
DESJARDINS GRANT
Seegull has created an engaging and educational scavenger hunt that will bring untold stories of inspirational Canadian women to light. Each stop in their hunt includes a short synopsis of the lives and achievements of the women chosen, and how the attraction relates to them.
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Hello Agenda App
DESJARDINS GRANT
The best app for all students who want to find a better life balance through proper activity organization.
For students, time management can be a challenge. Doing everything at the last minute can be effective, but it creates enormous pressure and can be harmful. So why not manage your time? This is what HelloAgenda lets you do, with a technology that distributes work time slots based on the deadlines of your different tasks.
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Ekonol'O App
Ekonol'O is a quiz for children aged 8 to 12 years old. With Ekonol'O kids will have fun while learning about water. Its questions are about overconsumption and about the restricted access to water. For every correct answer, kids will collect badges and unlock new levels. In Canada, an average of 560 liters of clean water are used per person per day, while in some communities, people only have access to 10 liters per day. The app serves the hope that kids and their parents will have more responsible habits when they learn with it.
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Edu’Cycle App
Edu’Cycle educates people about waste by offering solutions and tips in each area that may cause waste. It is an educational application conceptualized via Thunkable, by clicking on each distinctive heading, such as water, food, electricity, clothes, paper, and plastic; it gives helpful advice about recycling in those specific areas. Because waste has several dimensions: waste of resources and energy, which brings a waste of money.
"Wasting food is not great, so finish your plate! :) "
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V Care 4 U! App
V Care 4 U is designed to assist people with dementia in managing their daily reminders through user-friendly interfaces and customizable alerts. Say goodbye to missed appointments and medication schedules with V Care 4 U.
Life with dementia can be challenging, but with V Care 4 U, staying on top of daily tasks has never been easier. Whether it's remembering to take medication or sticking to a routine, V Care 4 U is here to help. With simple navigation and personalized options, you can take control of your day and live life to the fullest.
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Concerto Pro App
When you first enter the app, Concerto Pro shows a music list fetched from a remote flask server which allows to make changes and add songs without taking down the app. It is organized in alphabetical order by the names of the composer. Once we enter into a song there are three modes. It is designed to represent three different types in which the song can be played: first, second, and together. There are also custom-made timestamps for each app.
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EaxiRead App
EaxiRead is an app aimed towards dyslexic children. It’s a game that combines body movement and popular games in order to let them learn and play video games at the same time.
The app contains a “coin-collecting” game that focuses on common grammar mistakes. There’s also a body-motion game to help children memorize some letters. It’s important that children don’t just learn by visuals and sounds but they also learn by body motion and muscle-memory.
EaxiRead is "EAsy-READ-for-dysleXIcs". Its goal is to make learning easier and way more fun!
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Protector13 App
Students need a way to recognize how pollution is impacting the world. Protector13 is designed to help younger audiences know about recycling and how to dispose of material in a safe way. Protector13 allows you to take a picture and check to see if an item is recyclable, compostable, can be reused or must go to the landfill.
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Sustainable Ecosystems App
Sustainable Ecosystems raises awareness about climate change and unsustainable ecosystem. The user can experience a game-like simulation where they are step-by-step walked through on how to change an unsustainable ecosystem to a sustainable ecosystem! The user gets to learn about what a sustainable ecosystem is, and how they can work together (even in the real world!) to create one!
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Economisor App
Economisor is solving the problem of financial education and economic autonomy because not all young people know enough and have the tools to save. Not only does it help them save money, but explains financial/economic concepts in easier-to-understand terms.
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PEARLY: A victim of harassment deserves to be valuable and pampered. App
PEARLY is an application that helps to break the silence of victims and witnesses of bullying in schools.
It is aimed at 11-15 year-old students who are most exposed and most likely to suffer physical and psychological aggression and harassment.
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Bright App
Bright is an app designed to provide a safe and inclusive environment where anybody can learn about important topics such as climate change, sexual education, mental health, and other taboos without fear of judgment or stigma. Users have access to lessons, academic articles, peer-reviewed resources, and interactive tools to expand their knowledge about these topics and break the cycle of misinformation.
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CO App
CO is for start-ups that can't afford large delivery companies as they have high rates. It allows them to pay less for deliveries, which gives them more customers and allows them to miss fewer opportunities. It favours local businesses. Also, the deliverers will be paid more for the race.
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Drop by drop App
In Senegal, every year, the population encounters problems of flooding and access to drinking water. The problem is in Dakar, because a hydrological study showed that 90% of rainwater was absorbed by the soil.
And that in areas such as the sanitized plots the population has problems of access to drinking water. So our project aims to get the population out of this plague because water is vital. Every year the state spends billions which impoverishes the population. Drop by drop’s goal is to get, through artificial intelligence, the population out of this plague in order to live better.
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Perfect Choice App
Perfect Choice tackles the problems of choice and orientation of students after their studies.
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Astudium App
Astudium is a mobile application that gives resources to students from high school to university. There are options like note exchange, book selling and tutoring by video chat.
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Go Work App
This project consists in creating an application to solve the problem of unemployment which is a real challenge in Senegal. Indeed, this phenomenon causes the loss of purchasing power, household debt, hunger and delinquency among youth. This problem has a global stake insofar as decent work and economic growth are among the goals of sustainable development according to the United Nations. The goal of Go Work is to create an application to facilitate the meeting between recruiters and job candidates in order to allow young people to have the chance to find a decent job. It's an innovative initiative.
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WAS (Women Are Success) App
WAS (Women Are successful) is an application to support students in fields where they are very much in the minority, such as engineering sciences. Indeed, according to UNESCO, women represent 10 to 20 percent of the workforce in this field.
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TaabalDji agriculture et partenariat App
Thiès is a region of Senegal where agriculture reigns and it is in this area that the groundnut basin is located. However, agriculture is suffering a disastrous crisis. Despite this, production in cereal sectors such as beans, maize, rice etc. is increasing. But, it turns out that a huge amount is lost.
Thus, Taabaldji agriculture et partenariat is a platform through which farmers and producers will be able to maintain a direct relationship with customers, in this case the owners of supermarkets, factories, consumers of these products provided by them, farmers and producers.
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Suvation App
Stress is a problem commonly faced among high school students, which is having a negative impact on their mental health, focus, and concentration. It is a problem that is important to solve because this generation is going through lots of depression, stress, and pressure in high school. Therefore, solving this problem would help many young people to be less stressed and be more balanced in managing the pressure of the increased academic demands during high school. Our mobile application, Suvation, strives to helps high school students with this problem by providing them with helpful tools.
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AI-Bin App
AI-Bin is AI and mobile app that helps people sort their trash properly and in the right bin.
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S'Cool App
S’Cool aims to reduce financial inequality and its related impacts by facilitating access to education. The application facilitates school searches around the world.
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Read-y App
Read-y oralizes written text to help people that have dyslexia or myopia because it can sometimes be a challenge to read. You can download a document, a written or pasted text or even a picture that you took of the page in your book.