Four brilliant young high-school girls: Praise David-Oku,
Sonam Kumar, Nmesoma Ogbonna, and Grace Akpoiroro, representing Team Charis from
Nigeria, won the Technovation Challenge held in San Francisco in 2015.
These talented girls developed a mobile app
to tackle the waste disposal challenge in Nigeria. Their app, called,
‘Discardious’, was pitched against 400 other apps that were submitted
to this year's Technovation Challenge from 28 countries. The girls managed to
triumph over the competition and their innovation won them the High
School section.
This exciting competition brings the finalists together from
the Global Technovation Challenge, a technology entrepreneurship competition
for girls. 64 countries participated in the competition with 380 apps
submitted. World Pitch selected 10 finalist teams from India, Mexico,
Brazil, Nigeria, and the United States who were all flown to San
Francisco for the final World Pitch Events.
On June 24 last year, all teams pitched their apps to an
audience of tech professionals and a panel of judges from Yahoo, Yelp, Google,
Hackbright Academy and the Salesforce.com Foundation, and on June 25 learned
which two teams would be awarded $10,000 to develop their app and bring it to
market.
These year, the four young girls are not slowing down. They are pursuing their various interest in their respective chosen field. They are indeed doing Africa proud.
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