Greenwood High talent excels at Hackathon 2019 as the distinctive GWH coders
Posted on: 01/Apr/2019 8:14:53 PM
Students develop mobile app helping in better management of medicines
A three-member team of young coders from Greenwood High International School were awarded second runners up at a 24-hour hackathon event conducted recently at Stonehill International School. Around hundred students from eight schools participated in the event. Varun Giridhar, Dhruv Venkataraman and Srivatsava Missula of Xth standard, IGCSE participated in the event as GWH coders and were awarded the 3rd prize in the senior category for their idea to create a mobile app which can help in the management of medicines.
The talented trio were instrumental in successfully creating a compliant mobile app as per the official theme of the competition. The team created a mobile app with OCR capabilities, text analytics, and database design along with the API capabilities in 24 hours and were able to demonstrate the entire concept including integration with Google (Home) on what medicines to take and when. The students were also awarded with a prize money of Rs. 10,000 for their landmark innovation.
