Essential Feature
Priestley’s talented
trio win at Apps for
Good finals
YOUNG designers from Priestley College
won a national competition to create a
new app ahead of 22,000 other students.
Josh Rose, Eve Billington and Ben
Dommet’s app – Jobs 4 You – helps
students to find local jobs and also prepares
them for interviews with checklists and
tips as sets an alarm so they never miss an
appointment.
It won the Saving,
Spending and Giving
category ahead of
two other shortlisted
ideas.
“We
started
by
talking about the
kinds of things we
needed help with
and one of them
was finding part-time jobs that we can
do alongside studying at college,” said
former Birchwood High School pupil
Eve, who is 17.
“We felt that if it was something we were
struggling with then other students would
be as well and that’s how we decided on
the idea.”
The talented trio travelled to the Barbican
in London last week where they presented
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Jobs 4 You to eight executives from
Barclaycard, Cap Gemini and Salesforce.
com before mingling with more than 100
other representatives ‘selling’ their idea.
Their app will now be developed by a
London-based agency putitout who are
investing £10,000 and will hold regular
skype meetings with the students to
discuss its progress.
Next year, Jobs 4 You will be available on
the App Store.
“We think they really liked our idea
because it was something new and there
is definitely a market for it,” said former
Penketh
High
pupil Josh, who
is 18.
The trio’s app
was one of two
Priestley
teams
that made last
week’s finals in
London.
David Gant, Finn
Murphy and Scott Batey came up with
eID – an electronic identification app
that was also nominated in the People’s
Choice Awards.
Priestley Tutor Tom Heaton said: “It
was a great achievement to have two
teams through to the finals because it
is so competitive. The Apps for Good
programme has allowed us to bring our
BTEC course right up to date because it
is likely these students will developing
apps in the future.”
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