A regional team linked with the University of Waterloo was named among the winners of the global Technovation Girls app development competition.
Aiuto Solutions was awarded the first-ever COVID Economic Recovery prize, recognizing their work to develop an app to connect donors and charities. The app provides a means of forging stronger relationships in the not-for-profit and NGO sectors. The name Aiuto means ‘help’ in Italian.
Teams in Technovation Girls make apps that address a specific social need. As part of the program, students learn about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), promoted by the United Nations. SDGs have categories for human health and well-being, climate action, poverty reduction and gender equality.
Team Aiuto consists of Leya Oommen (L) and Ellen Brisley (R), both high school students from Kitchener-Waterloo. The two have been working together on app development and with Technovation Girls for some years. Photo provided by Ellen Brisley.
- Read the full article at Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics.
- Also see Technovation Girls Waterloo takes aim at gender gap in tech