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The schoolgirls of Vahan Tekeyan Basic School in Karbi village of Armenia’s Aragatsotn Province have developed a mobile application which enables its users to learn the language of signs and freely interact with people with hearing loss The app is called “Armenian sign language”, which was created within Technovation program.

The program gave an opportunity to the Armenian schoolgirls aged 10-18 to develop mobile applications on the six topics – environmental protection, poverty, peace, equality, education and health.

“The “Armenian sign language” is a bilingual educational app. Everyone without age limitations can make use of the application, learning the language of signs and interacting with those who suffer hearing damage,” one of the schoolgirls of Karbi village Svetlana Davtyan said in an interview with Panorama.am.

The schoolchildren from No. 2 School of Ashtarak have developed an application aimed at raising the children’s awareness on internet safety. “The app features advices, hotline and help sections. Our target group is the children. But the adults can also use the app,” Ashtarak schoolgirl Tereza Tumanyan said.

To note, within the 12 weeks of the program, the groups of the schoolgirls involving up to 5 members, have studied one of the six topics in line with the objectives of the Sustainable Development, considered the issue in the context of their communities and developed a mobile application aimed at settling that issue through acquiring relevant skills.

The competition featured 36 teams from Armenia’s regions, with 22 of them qualified for the semi-final round. The jury chose 6 teams as winners from the semi-final. The groups represented Karbi Basic School, No. 2 School of Ashtarak, Yerevan No. 2, 92 and 123 Schools and Anania Shirakatsy Lyceum.

The teams have developed their applications with the App Inventor program by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Today, on the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, the applications developed by the schoolchildren were presented at the UN Office in Armenia, with the winning teams receiving awards.