What to know about the winners of Appapalooza 2021 by Technovation[MN]:
- Technovation[MN], a program that teaches girls between the ages of 10 and 18 how to design, code, and pitch their own app, recently honored 10 teams at the organization’s Appapalooza 2021 event
- The winners of Appapalooza would normally go on to the global competition, but Technovation[MN] built its own judging rubric and recruited local judges due to the pandemic year
Check out the full (and inspiring!) lineup of Appapalooza winners below, learn more about Technovation[MN], and listen to Technovation[MN] Executive Director Lisa Schlosser on The tech.mn Podcast.
Junior Division
Team: Axolotls
App Name: Relaxolotl
Team Members:
- Greta Ausman
- Lily Woyak
- Chaltu Kedir
- Anna Kedir
Get rid of mental baggage from your long day with thought inspiring stories to help you learn about yourself and tasks to get your body moving. Relaxolotl is for young people between the ages of 12 and 15.
Team: Sunshine Daisies
App Name: Grow A Garden
Team Members:
- Alexis Swintek
- Ava Ryan
- Allie Fleener
Grow A Garden’s mission is to grow gardens to donate fresh produce to the local food bank by helping communities come together to set up and manage their own community garden.
Team: Team Discoveries
App Name: GreenWear
Team Members:
- Ruchira Prasad
- Reeha Ibrahim
- Sitara Ranasinghe
- Nikki Boddeti
GreenWear aims to raise awareness around clothing waste by helping people learn which clothing materials can harm the environment. Our goal for GreenWear is to help people become more aware about this situation to make a difference.
Team: tEGGnovation
App Name: Salt & Pepper
Team Members:
- Ria Mehta
- Snigdah Kothareddy
- Sanjana Kollipara
- Shritha Devarajui
- Keerthana Ganesha Murthy
Have you ever gone to a grocery store to find a particular item only to leave empty-handed? Salt and Pepper helps you find items that are uncommon in stores. In the app food categories for vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, and sugar-free help your search. Maps will direct you to a destination and ratings and reviews help you evaluate the stores.
Team: WMS 2
App Name: Chaptr
Team Members:
- Ava McNanley
- Grace Li
- Ava Illingworth
- Aadhya Subramanian
Chaptr is an app designed specifically to support small authors (to promote and find readers) and young readers (to find books that spark interest). The mission is to establish a community that benefits both small authors and young adult readers.
Senior Division
Team: {APP}ply Yourself
App Name: ME 2.0
Team Members:
- Josie Koenigs
- Lelani Clifford
- Lillian Hanson
- Elizabeth Schieffelbein
ME 2.0’s goal is to help improve the mental health of teenagers and young adults who are seeking help or trying to assist others with a mental illness by providing a breathing buddy, growth mindset keyboard, stress relief games, med checklist, mood tracker, and resources.
Team: CASP Technologies
App Name: Operation Serenity
Team Members:
- Anjali Donthi
- Caitlin McWilliams
- Sarah Bulur
Operation Serenity is an Android application that taps into a market to reduce anxiety in pediatric patients aged 8-15 by harnessing kid-friendly images and surgical sounds of general surgery procedures and displaying them in a step-by-step manner that both educates and engages pediatric surgery patients. Operation Serenity also helps pediatric patients to reduce stress by informing them of fun local events and activities.
Team: Computer Glitz
App Name: MotusSign
Team Members:
- Nora Dixon
- Clare Dixon
- Eleanor Sprinthall
- Ashley Chen
- Prapthi Jayesh Sirrkay
35% of people face difficulties communicating with deaf or hard of hearing customers. 87% ranked their communication methods as inadequate. MotusSign helps ease the communication deficit in retail settings between American Sign Language users and employees through a library of ASL signs allowing for two-way communication.
Team: Herstory Makers!
App Name: A.P.P. (Anti-Peer Pressure)
Team Members:
- Srijani Datta
- Shradha Goel
- Aadya Pandey
- Ajira Pandey
- Astha Sharma
APP spreads awareness of negative peer pressure situations for children ages 6 to 13. Using game methodologies, users execute 12 different scenarios, selecting correct options to better understand negative peer pressure. Multiple scores are compared to evaluate your progress.
Team: TechnoKrats
App Name: Green3
Team Members:
- Sreyoli Bhattacharya
- Anushka Kollengode
- Khushi Kancharla
Green3’s focus is on reducing the carbon footprint, a key strategy to address global climate change. Green3 makes recycling easy, accessible, and encourages users to be responsible for a lifestyle of environmental awareness by showing them green businesses, options to keep a clean environment, and education for how to leave a sustainable environment for the next generation.
