Technovation is a global competition that inspires every girl to join and create an app that can help to change their country. Liger school picked 13 girls to join this program and I was the one of them too. The location that we worked at was DI (Development Innovation) in Phnom Penh (main city). We had three weeks to complete this competition and we did it every weekend. At DI there were not just Liger school girls that joined, we had some girls come from other schools too. So, in all we had five teams (3 teams of all Liger and 2 teams of other schools). For my team, we had five members. The first week, our mentors told us to think of the ideas that we can help to change Cambodia. I joined with a team of three girls and we came up with the idea of helping farmers and customers. We presented our idea to other girls and to our mentors. A lot of people voted for us, so we had to find two more girls to join in our team. So, two more girls came to our team. We discussed in a team and we had to come up with the name of the team and the app name. Our team name was Ligeek and our app name was ImEx (stands for imports and exports). The second week our mentors introduced us to some basic coding that we will code our app in there. We used appinventor2 to code our app. For my group we divided into two groups. One was business plan group and the other was coding group. I was in business plan group because I like to write and I hate coding. From week three until week 10 we just coded and wrote something about our app into our business plan. In those weeks, we had to do some surveys in order to have some proof that farmers are really faced with those problems and also customers. In week 11, we made two videos, one video was the pitch video and the other one was about app demo. In the last week, we had to submit our app resources and everything that we had done to our judges in the U.S.A.
After two weeks (est.) Technovation (judges in U.S.A) sent us back the results if we won this competition or not. We were really proud of ourselves because my team was the semi-finalist team representing the region of Asia, New Zealand, Europe and Australia (middle school). But we were a little bit sad because we weren’t the finalist team, but we still are proud of ourselves that we were the semi-finalist team.
Now, in my school (Liger) we still are continuing to develop our app. Even though we are not the ones that are in the competition, we are still making the app in order to help change Cambodia. So, if you are a coding teacher or an expert in that, maybe you can help us to make this app run. I hope that one day there will be a mentor or teacher that can help us.
App Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMckzeKFm4E
Pitch Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9twUCr4YGI
Announced Semi-Finalist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKyBKC5kbU8
Technovation Website
http://www.technovationchallenge.org/home
App Logo
