Apps for Good award-winners announced

The winners of the national Apps for Good Awards 2015 have been announced at an event in London. 

The evening celebrated the next generation of problem solvers and digital makers: young people who are creating tech products to change their world for good.

At the 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 are:

Category	Winning Team	School
Information Powered by Thomson Reuters	One Click Politics Gets young people tuned into politics	Wick High School, Caithness
Sustainable Communities Sponsored by Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park	GardenKing Learn about the plants in your garden and how to care for them	Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith
Connected Communities Sponsored by TalkTalk	Sound Clash Listen to music with friends across multipledevices.	Latymer Upper School, Hammersmith
Productivity Sponsored by SAP	BOOKd Take your reading beyond the classroom	Dr Challoner’s Grammar School, Amersham
Learning Sponsored by Samsung	My World of Atoms Brings the periodic table to life	The Boswells School, Chelmsford
Saving, Spending and Giving Sponsored by Barclaycard	Jobs 4 You Find and apply for student-friendly local work	Priestley College, Warrington
People’s Choice Award Sponsored by Essence	Who Cares? Supporting young carers across the UK	Denbigh High School, Luton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 said: “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.” 

For more information on the winning student teams and their apps, please visit www.appsforgood.org.