Bengaluru: Technology education start-up AcadGild launched social app vPledge. This app will help to motivate and guide general public to pick up and fulfil social causes, which includes to plant 10 trees, donate food to 10 people, using public transport only and more.
This app is developed by two teenage students12-year-old Prateek Mahesh and 13-year-old Priyal Jain. Both of them are a eighth-grader from Delhi Public.
Vikalp Jain, co-founder, AcadGild, helped in developing the app. School student and Jain said the app is linked to Facebook to let an individual tell her friends about a noble cause they have taken for greater societal good and later on challenge three of their friends for similar causes.
There are many such student who cone to learn programming at AcadGild. One among them is a seventh grade student Mahesh from New Horizon Public School's said, "I wanted to develop an app, after discussing with my parents and mentors we have decided to develop an app for social causes."
"We would like to collaborate with NGOs in the future to popularise the pledges. Our aim is to hit one million downloads in six months," said Jain.
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Another AcadGild student, 13-year-old Samarth Grover has also created the mobile version of the Tic-Tac-Toe game which can connect two people via Bluetooth without the need of internet to play.
"It is inspiring to see young minds adopt technology with such ease and enthusiasm. Right training and mentorship program can impact the development of programming skills," said Jain.
AcadGild was founded in December 2014 by Vikalp Jain and serial entrepreneur Vinod Dham. It is promoted by Krishnan Ganesh and Meena Ganesh's entrepreneurial platform GrowthStory and has raised nearly $3 million (Rs. 20 cr approx) funding thus far. It has online teaching model and also the startup taught Android, Unity 2D, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Robotics and Python to school children in the summer.
(With IANS Inputs)
