Issue Number 16 | June 2022
Congratulations National Champions !
The Business Department want to say congratulations to our # Digi- Inventors Challenge team , You Wish We Assist , who were crowned national champions at an awards ceremony last month . This makes Marr College the only school in the history of the competition to have won twice . Please congratulate Amy , Savanna , Laura and Ashlyn ( S4 ) if you see them !
The competition is run by the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre ( DHI ) in collaboration with Glasgow Warriors . The aim of the competition is to find smart new ways to help Scotland ' s and the United Arab Emirates ' ( UAEs ') young people improve their physical or mental wellbeing .
Students are asked to identify health and care challenges that they face on a daily basis ( it could be friends or family living with diabetes , asthma , Alzheimer ' s , mental health challenges or something completely different ) and ask them to come up with a digital idea that could potentially be transformed into a real digital solution .
Our winning team – You Wish We Assist – have designed an app to support young people who struggle with their mental health . The app is designed to allow people to track their mood , take part in mindfulness activities and games and let them easily access expert help or an emergency contact if they need it . The students had input from Karen Lee when designing their app - Health Improvement Officer for Mental Health in NHS Ayrshire & Arran .
The team worked with industry experts - taking part in several workshops to develop their entrepreneurial skills , presentation technique and marketing knowledge e . g . DHI , the Scottish Tech Army , Scottish Edge , Herriot-Watt Dubai and TedX .
Since being crowned champions the students and Miss Wyllie have been working with Joanna and Paul from the Scottish Tech Army to develop a clickable prototype for their app – meeting regularly via video call . They have been learning more about wireframes and how to use
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