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Apps for Good Awards 2021 - The Winners

Jun 23, 2021

Meet the Apps for Good 2021 winners, teams around the world have created new tech products to solve problems that impact us all.

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Apps for Good Awards 2021 - Roll of Honour

Jun 22, 2021

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Well done to every single team that entered the Apps for Good Awards, this year hasn’t been easy but you did it!

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Celebrating all Apps for Good Awards 2021 entries

Jun 08, 2021

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In 2020/ 2021 students completed the Apps for Good course in a year entirely in flux. Sometimes they were working socially-distanced in classrooms, sometimes during school-time at home and others in their spare time after lessons. We wanted to celebrate every award applicant this year.

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Donna Hay - From Teacher to Course Developer

Oct 14, 2020
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Donna Hay went from delivering the AfG Course in her spare time to developing our program and new courses.
Kraig Brown - The impact of partnering with Apps for good

Oct 14, 2020
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Kraig and his team at Digital Xtra Fund have been partnering with Apps for Good to fund activities across Scotland for the past 4 years.
Bob Schukai - A decade of being an Apps for Good Expert

Oct 07, 2020
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Longest-running Expert - Bob Schukai on the impact that Apps for Good has had on him and his optimism for the future.
What could have been a tiny project has completely changed my life

Oct 07, 2020
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We caught up with Ellora who took the Apps for Good course in 2015, she is now studying a BSc (Hons) in Ethical Hacking.
From being a student to being a teacher of Apps for Good

Oct 07, 2020
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Tanya supported other students at her school with their Apps for Good classwork and now is delivering the Apps Development course herself
Apps for Good CEO Heather Picov on Celebrating 10 years of Apps for Good

Oct 06, 2020
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We are celebrating our 10th birthday this month and it is with great pride that I look back on the last decade and how much we have accomplished.
Siân Allsopp on advocating for Apps for Good at Morgan Stanley

Sep 29, 2020
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Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, Sian Allsopp talks to us about why our commitment to gender diversity and social mobility is so important.
Habibah - How Apps for Good helps you with your career (not just in tech)

Sep 29, 2020
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Habibah used the lessons that she learned about innovation and ethics in technology to apply them to her medical degree.
Chris Aitken - How it feels to deliver Apps for Good over seven years

Sep 29, 2020
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Computing teacher Chris Aitken talked to us about bringing his students down from Wick to London, and teaching the courses from a very early stage.
Our schools: Dunoon Grammar School

Sep 16, 2020
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In this series we’ll be looking at a variety of schools delivering Apps for Good courses across the country
Machine Learning: Giving young people the power of change

Sep 10, 2020
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Our product manager Fergus talks about the need for young people to become the next generation of social leaders in the machine learning field.
Eight Roads and the importance of working with Venture Capitalists

Sep 03, 2020
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An overview of Apps for Good and Eights Roads partnership