ABSTRACT
Girls from the farms around Wick High School in Caithness, Scotland, are supposedly a hard-to-reach group when it comes to technology. But four Wick students, Caitlin, Beth, Rebekah and Jeri, created their own app with Apps for Good. The apps even had their own glitzy launch event in London in January 2014, which also celebrated the success of all the other national Apps for Good winners. Educators, industry leaders, journalists, policy-makers and politicians were all deeply impressed by the work of the students, their confidence and clarity in explaining their projects and the success of Apps for Good in making mobile technology the very material for highly engaging learning and entrepreneurship. UK managing director of Apps for Good Debbie Forster explained: Traditional education systems are wasting talent. Apps for Good is a fitting title for a project that grew out of the favelas of Brazil where its 'parent' company, CDI, started running computer-based learning programmes in the 1990s.
