Issue Number 05 | January 2020
#DigiInventors Challenge Awards Ceremony
Last year a group of our S3
students were delighted
at being crowned the
national winners of the
#DigiInventors Challenge!
Their winning app, ‘Shake
it up’ allows students to
order their lunch via an
app and also encourages
healthy meal choices by
rewarding students with
house points and prizes.
Having
worked
with
industry
experts,
SwarmOnline, to develop
their app the team were
invited to an awards
ceremony hosted by the
Digital Health and Care
Institute (DHI). They will
also take part in a Skype
call with Andy Murray in
the coming months!
The award ceremony took
place last month in the
University of Strathclyde in
the
Technology
and
Innovation Centre.
The
team
had
the
opportunity to showcase
their prototype app to the
audience which included
industry experts, health
care professionals, the DHI,
MSPs
and
included
representatives
from
across Scotland. The team
were accompanied by
Miss
Wyllie
(Business
Education)
and
Mr
Docherty (Head Teacher)
the students were a credit
to the school and gave an
engaging
presentation
about their product.
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The team were delighted
at winning an iPad, iPencil
and Andy Murray Under
Armour sports tops each
as well as £2,000 for the
school. The group were
awarded their prizes by
Ivan McKee (MSP). Our S3
students are keen to
continue to spread the
word about their app and
Diana Hekerem who is the
Head of Transformational
Redesign
at
Health
Improvement Scotland’s
(HIS) ihub has kindly
offered to act as their
mentor after seeing them
present.
For more information see
@MarrBusiness
and
@DigiInventors.