Mobile applications to help you earn money from trash, exchange garbage for school supplies and seedlings, and track water consumption emerged as the top three applications developed by high school students in the first run of the Cebu Innovation Bootcamp Hackathon 2018 sponsored by IBM.
These three applications were showcased as part of the bootcamp’s culminating activity at the Grand Convention Center of Cebu last March 10, 2018.
A total of 669 students from Pajo National High School, Mandaue Comprehensive National High School, and Ramon Duterte Memorial National High School underwent a series of IBM-facilitated innovation workshops through design, thinking, ideation, prototyping, and consultation. They also used Bluemix, IBM’s cloud platform, to create mobile applications. Of the 669 students, 48 students qualified to the final hackathon.
Judging the mobile applications developed were Department of Information and Communication Technology (DICT) 7 Director Antonio Padre, CIB.O Executive Director Jun Sa-a, RAFI Governance and Linkages (G&L) Program Officer Christian Anuta, Department of Education (DepEd) 7, Regional Field Technical Assistant Dr. Leah Apao, and IBM Application Developer IT Specialist Samuel Allen Samson.
Ten innovative and ready-to-launch mobile applications were developed to address issues such as water supply, solid waste management, and flooding, all of which were presented and demonstrated by the students.
The project that stood out was called “Rebootant,” a trash-to-cash initiative where do-it-yourself projects are posted online and households can sell finished products to project proponents and earn money.
“Eco-barter,” an online platform to exchange garbage for school supplies and seedlings, was developed by students from the Mandaue Comprehensive National High School came in second, while an application to track water consumption developed by students from Ramon Duterte Memorial National High School placed third.
Sa-a congratulated the students for a job well done and thanked the organizers. The bootcamp will target another five public senior high schools for its second run this year.
IBM, in partnership with the Education Development Center and in collaboration with DICT, Metro Cebu Development and Coordinating Board (MCDCB), and DepEd, launched the bootcamp in October 2017 to prepare the students toward being market-ready for employment and to address different socio-economic challenges.
The Governance and Linkages Unit of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI-G&L) seeks to foster responsive institutions and an engaged citizenry through awards and recognition, good governance and leadership development programs, and active linkages and platforms of engagement and collaboration.
