We are

Amalia, Laura, Inés, Claudia, Eva

A L I C E

And we have joined a team to participate in

Every year, Technovation invites teams of girls from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real-world problems through technology.

That's why we have developed, with the help of our two mentors Alba and Aina, a great APP

ALICE

Alice is an app that helps children to learn how to eat in a healthy way,

using the food pyramid from the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition (SEEN) as a reference.

Alice is a plant, and to start playing, you choose your favourite plant icon.

Our app contains a game, information about nutrition and health, a pedometer that tells you how much you walk every day and an option where you can feed Alice.

If you feed her with a balanced diet, she will grow nicely. If you don´t do it well, she will give you suggestions about how to improve her nutrition.

See how it works in our Pitch Video

We have achive basic programming skills with APP INVENTOR, which is a open development tool to program on Android devices. It provides many interesting examples, including simple games and practical tools, to make programming fun and easy even for beginners as us.

It seems pretty complicated but now we can understand the meaning of the blocks :-)

And that's the result!

You can download our app ALICE

HERE

But we have learnt not only programming, but also

how to eat in a healthy way,
the problems that causes an unhealthy diet,
the food pyramid,
how to design an APP (paper prototype and flow chart),
concepts of typography, how to combine colours, to design icons,
how to ideate a pitch video, the script,
the recording process, how important the audios are,
edition in Final Cut Pro X, and post-production with templates of After Effects,
Audio edition and subtitles in Final Cut Pro X,
how to create a great poster with Canva,

It has been a long way but we have achived a great deal, and we will be able to use our new knowledge wherever and whenever we want.

It has been only possible with the valuable help from our mentors Alba (for programming) and Aina (for designing).

With them we have worked all together taking collaborative decisions and working some times online and some times face-to-face.

We are proud of our effort!

Let's see some photos of the whole process

The ideation process

Working at the classroom of the American Space of Valencia

At the Central market of Valencia, recording the video and discovering wonderful meals

The interview with the endocrine specialist

Christian Salom Vendrell, member of the SEEN (Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition)

Recording the video through the glass

The editing and sound mixing process

And noooooow!!!! Some BIG NEWS!!!

Last Saturday we won the first round of the Technovation International Competition.

You can't imagine how happy we are.

We are going to compete the world semifinal. We will be up against the winners of other regions in Spain, as well as against other countries around the world both from Europe and from other continents, such as Japan, USA, Namibia, Zaire, India, Pakistan, Kazakhstan ...

The jury, formed by people from all over the world, will evaluate the material that we have uploaded to the cloud, as with the code with which the app is made, as well as the companion videos and presentations. If we win the next round we will go to San Francisco (USA), to enjoy the world final. We hope our dream becomes a reality :-)

But previously...

5 May, the competition day

May 5th was the day we presented our app to the jury of the Eastern Regions of Spain (Comunidad Valenciana, Murcia and Albacete). We were nervous, but the previous work had been intense and we were well prepared.

We made some large posters so that you could see at a glance all the operation of our APP, Alice. Some members of the jury visited us in our stand, and asked some questions about our work.

Our mentors Alba and Aina were with us at all times, helping us as always, and offering us all their strength.

After the exhibition of our Stand...

We went to a classroom of the faculty of Agrónomos to make our presentation speech about the App. We took a power point of 4 minutes, and adjusted the sentences and the duration perfectly, so that the jury could only congratulate us.

We waited until the final deliberations of the jury, and then we went to the Paraninfo University. The room was packed.

Then the conductor of the event announced our name. We jumped, we shouted, we laughed, we cried, all at the same time and all together (we, our mentors, moms and dads, the family that was also there).