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The Winning Mobile App Design
Fri, August 22, 2014
Earlier this week, we told you about the PUC's Mobile Apps workshop - where 45 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18 were selected to take part in the first annual innovation competition - an intensive one week course in mobile application design and development.

Well, today the 45 participants of the PUC's Mobile Application workshop presented their apps. They were split into 8 groups and had only 5 days to create their mobile apps. And while today marks the closing of this year's program, Executive Director for Bright Path Foundation Bevil Wooding states that it also marks the beginning of a technological transformation in Belize. While Wooding reflected on the success of the 5 day workshop, the two 1st place winners shared the design of their prized mobile apps:

Bevil Wooding, Executive Director, Bright Path Foundation
"This has been a most incredible week of mobile innovation, creativity, determination - these kids it was said that they'd be running off after 5 o'clock to do other things surrounded by such temptations but every single night from Monday through Tuesday through Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, they have put in the hours to present the apps that they will be showing this evening. This has been a fantastic experience and I think it's safe to say that Belize now have new innovators and new innovations that's going to shock the country and I think also express the region and the world."

"They have a lot in store. At the start of the week we told them think about ideas that can impact the world immediately around. Think about things in Belize that can be solved with mobile applications. Not everybody has a mobile phone, lot of people like to use their phones. How convenient will it be to have apps that treat with everyday problems and create everyday solutions."

Orelle Castillo, 1st Place WINNER, BEL-LINGO APP
"BEL-LINGO is mobile app what we created are group living speech. It basically gives you the translation that English, Spanish, Maya, creole, mandarin, Garifuna - the languages that you can find in Belize. We have the translation in English and the word like how it should be said."

Jahban Barrow, Discover Belize
"Discover Belize is basically an app that lets tourists and local Belizeans who don't know their own country or not necessary mean in a bad way - let them know every single hotel, restaurant, spa, ruins - every single landmark in Belize and it's on the map, so you will know where to go and where it's at. We are going to put more content in over time. We just had a really short deadline because of the week. These are activities you go in, if you click on activities, you have more activities you could do in the country and that's for all the districts and they also have a history, so you can know the history of Belize and it also have our own website."

There were also 2 second place winners, the "N-for me" app which assists users to find employment and "Vindixie" which is an app for taxi service.

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