global Discovery Schools announces winners of The Tech Launchpad 2015

DELHI, India - July 22, 2015 - PRLog -- After a huge success of All India App Design competition 2014 which was recognized by Limca Book of Records, global Discovery Schools, yet once more is proud to announce the winners of its All India Tech Launchpad competition 2015. We have successfully planted the seeds of technology in the minds of young children (9-14 yrs age) and harnessed their abilities in aiding and educating the community at large.

Mr. GV Vadivan (Chief Academic Officer) commented - “Most often, we as adults, tend to believe that we are the best judge of children’s capability. On the contrary, the children always surprise us by demonstrating their real capability which far exceeds our imagination. This App Design Competition is one such initiative that showcases the real potential of our Children. While we take pride in conducting the competition successfully, we also realise that we have an enormous challenge in front of us. The challenge is, to keep up with the pace of the students. We at global DISCOVERY SCHOOLS will continue to aspire, to make ‘Learning’ fun and experiential for the Students. We thank all the participants for the enthusiastic response and best wishes for the winners. We thank the School administrators for encouraging participation in this competition.”

Mr. Vinesh Menon (Chief Operating Officer) commented - “Last year we witnessed children making mobile apps that addressed issues like waste management, women’s safety & support for cancer patients. The diverse evolving mind of today’s children has continued to amaze us this year and we have witnessed yet again very interesting apps that range from solutions to help dyslexia, autism to reporting vehicles which do not follow safety norms while transporting dangerous materials to disaster management information to spreading of civic sense. We at global DISCOVERY SCHOOLS are proud to have yet again conducted successfully another edition of the Tech Launchpad competition thereby bringing out the best of intellectual and imaginative talent in the word of applications and gaming. My congratulations to all the winners and participants for making this a success”.

The outcome of the app competition and game challenge are astounding as the children have created winning mobile apps and games as mentioned below:

Mobile App Competition

1.  Helping Hands App (1^st Prize): aims at helping children with learning disorders such Autism, Dyslexia and ADHD created by Soumya Swain, Aditi Shukla from Bhopal.

2. Disaster Management App(1^st Prize): Provides comprehensive information on how to deal with different types of disasterscreated by Avi Wadhwa, Abhijeet Swain from Bhopal.

3.  Report a Truck App (2^nd Prize): an app that aims to save lives by reporting trucks that carry dangerous materials in an unsafe manner created by Daksh, Vats, Hrishab from Vadodara, Gotri – Sevasi.

4.  CitylifeA2Z App (3^rd Prize): provides exhaustive details about which authority to contact in order to report various civic issues,created by Sakshi Pradyumn, Siddhartha Dange, Swastik Singh from Bhopal

Game Challenge

1. ComputerMania game (1^st Prize): teaches basic and advanced level concepts of Computer Science, created byJiya Rawal, Aadhyan Taneja from Gaziabad.

2. French game (2^nd Prize): Helps learn basic French created by Nil, Aditya, Rishiraj from Vadodara – Harni.

Competition Program details are as follows:

The competition started in January and completed in 5 months receiving a remarkable response from students spanning across India between grades 4 to 9. School students from across India were invited to participate in the competition wherein they created mobile phone applications to serve a social cause or educational computer games. Participants worked in groups of 1-3 members each and created applications that solve problems such as disaster management, learning disorders, reporting non-compliant trucks and many others.

The competition was held in 3 stages wherein the participants were required to submit an outline of the proposed app or game in written for round 1. The shortlisted candidates for round 2 were given training in implementing apps through Skype, recorded video tutorials and personalized assistance from global Discovery Schools representatives. Based on the training provided they created functional prototypes of the apps. The teams with most innovative ideas and good implementation were shortlisted for the final round. The winners were judged on the basis of their app’s creativity, effectiveness, ease of use and final implementation.

This is the second consecutive year in which global Discovery Schools has organized such a competition for school children and is an example of how the school aims at unlocking the creative potential in today’s children and enabling them with technology to give shape and form to their ideas.

About global Discovery Schools:

Global Discovery Schools would like to invite all children to take advantage of innovative learning methods like Discovery Launchpad, RTMD & aHa way of learning that make a child's life extraordinary & help them make new records. Global Discovery Schools is a chain of innovative K-12 schools currently designed under CBSE affiliation. Currently GDA has 10 schools running across the country and rapidly expanding. For more information, please visit www.globaldiscoveryacademy.com.