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Bangalore teens design social app vPledge
Bangalore-based kids design app for social awareness
"Stand up, take your pledge, act and drive change," said Bangalore-based Prateek and Priya on launching their environment-friendly Android app called vPledge.
12-year-old Prateek Mahesh and 13-year-old Priyal Jain are middle-school students who have pledged to support the environment and contribute to the society. The app is a platform which allows its users to promote social causes and support movements like conserving nature, donating free meals, planting trees and even feeding stray animals.
As and when a user completes a certain objective, he or she can share it on social media pages, tag friends, challenge them, earn and even redeem points.
“There is limited awareness in our society about the various aspects of environment conservation. Social campaigns are often productive but their impact does not last for long. Keeping all this in mind, we decided to design an app that helps us attain small, achievable goals and lead us towards a successful mission”, the students said.
“These small goals can be using public transport, travelling short distances by bicycles, quitting smoking, using energy-efficient products, donating books, planting trees and many more. Our objective is to engage our users as well as help our society grow and that can only happen when all of us come together and say ‘vPledge’,” added the app's creators.
The teenagers joined a summer camp called 'Android for Kids' organized by a technology-education start-up AcadGild where they learned various technical and software-programming skills. Most of the students who participated in the camp were mentored by professionals and industry experts.
“It has been a wonderful experience for both our team and our participants. It is inspiring to see children as young as 12 and 13 adapting to technology with such ease and enthusiasm. Social-cause apps such as vPledge and Tic-Tac-Toe are examples of how far today’s generation has come. AcadGild has now organized six unique summer camps. I hope to reunite with these kids somed, and many more such brilliant, young minds,” said Vikalp Jain, President, AcadGild.