A team of Transition Year students from Glanmire Community College has taken top honours at the final of the CEIA’s app development programme – SySTEM.
The app, Are You Codding Me?, is an educational reflex game that teaches the user about the dangers of overfishing in Ireland. The game has five different fish species that resemble endangered fish in Ireland. If the user catches an endangered fish, they receive a negative score – but if they catch a common fish they receive a positive score.
Other prizes on the day went to Colasite an Chraiobhin, Fermoy, for best functionality for their app SkyClimb, while Colaiste an Chroi Naofa from Carraig Na Bhfear’s PebbleBlast won best marketing plan. Students from St Brogans College in Bandon took home the award for best design for their app Paddy’s Panic Run.
The CEIA provided training workshops for teachers and students over the course of the programme on coding, design, project management and presentation skills, as well as individual team mentors from companies including Johnson Controls, CIX, Horner APG, Cork Training Centre, CIT Boston Scientific and Tyndall National Institute.
Each industry mentor provided their team with support and industry knowledge from the beginning of the App development programme, right up to the competition final.
“This is the first year of the programme and the level of interest we have had from schools and teachers, but also from industry, has been incredible. We would like to sincerely thank our incredible industry mentors for devoting their time and energy to the programme over the past 12 weeks,” said Valerie Cowman, skills and education chair of the CEIA.
“Coding has never been so important and we think that SySTEM is a fantastic and innovative way of showcasing IT, STEM and engineering as exciting and interesting career options to the next generation. Due to the phenomenal success of the programme, we hope to expand it even further next year to include even more schools.”
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