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Shreya Gurung, 14, Kanchan Gurung, 15, Urooj Hussain, 13, Zobia Yasin, 12, Tahreem Ali, 14, with ICT teacher Emily Monk and their certificates and glass trophy
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Reading Girls' app success

July 23, 2012

Tech-savvy pupils at Reading Girls’ School have won a national competition to design a smartphone app.

Shreya Gurung, Kanchan Gurung, Urooj Hussain, Zobia Yasi and Tahreem Ali beat 40 schools in the competition run by Apps For Good to develop an app to solve a problem in their community.

Each of the IT brains behind the app was presented with a certificate and a laptop computer.

The winning app, called RMBme, helps students to remember important items during the busiest times of their studies and exams.

The app will be developed with computer firm Dell over the coming term and will eventually go live for anyone to download to their smartphone or tablet device.

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My thoughts entirely Sparky. Next thing will be someone "inventing" the idea of a small book called a diary!

One who knows, Chaversham
23/07/2012 at 15:20

So they came up with the idea of a calendar that reminds you about appointments? Why didnt someone think of this before!!

Spanky
23/07/2012 at 14:40

@ DM : All to do with IPRs...eg: develop (any part of) an app during your employers time, and they are entitled to retain full IPR rights...doubtless the sponsor (Dell) in this competition retains similar rights as part of the Entry Ts&Cs.

Still, wholeheartedly agree, a Very Well Done to the girls.