S1 App Design Project

S1 pupils Maya McGonigle, Ciara McGrath, Kiera McLeod and Monica Pencovitch won a competition run by Strathclyde University to design a smartphone app.  Their winning app design allows users to access their contacts from another person’s mobile phone in the event of an emergency.

A team from the Computing Science Department of Strathclyde University consisting of Ruaridh Gallagher, Gillian Shanks and Dr John Devine have taken the girls’ idea forward and are developing it into a working app.

The team from Strathclyde University came to Our Lady’s on Thursday 9 March to work with the girls and to show them the work they have done on the app so far.  The girls were joined by a group of P7 pupils from St. Joseph’s in Cardowan who came to see how an idea can be turned into a working app.  Well done to the girls for their idea of the “Lifesaver”.