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APP: THE DROPPER BY THE INNOVATIVE MINDS

Dropper” is an application created to solve the problem of water shortages in the summer. When we interviewed The mayor of our town, he told us that his main worry is the big waste of water which will be drastically felt in the summer. “The Dropper” was developed to alert and inform the people of our community to the impact of an excessive consumption and waste of water. The application has several buttons with different daily activities, like hands-washing, showering …and more. For each activity, the application will determine the unnecessary waste of water in Euros according the time of usage. After the calculation of the waste of water is converted into EUROS, the application will present some tips on how to save water, i.e. to save money. We believe that “Dropper” will effectively make people reduce the quantity of water they waste as they will realise not only how harmful it is for the environment but also how much they can save from their family budget.

Link to our video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y-dwX5BGCQ

AGURPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

JULY 2016

APP: ANIMALLING

Our app "Animalling" has been created in order to reduce the number of abandoned animals, at least, in our region. With this app, we aim to provide a home to the largest number of animals that we can, because increasingly there is a higher animal abandonment rate, and we think that all the animals should have a owner to look after them. In the first screen of our app there are 4 buttons. In the first button, you can find the locations of the abandoned animals, that is going to be updated by the responsible vet. In the second button, the users can make a donation to the institution that will be in charge of the animals. You can make a donation or food donation. In the third button, the target audience can adopt an animal through a link that refers to a blog. There, you can choose the animal to adopt. In the fourth button, the help, if you're with some problem or doubt about our app, you can clarify it here. Concluding, the participation in the Apps4Good project was an asset to us, because it helped us understand some of our society's problems and it made us think that, with the technology we have today, we have several ways to solve them.

AGURPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SĂ TĂƒO

MAY 2016

APP: ACTIONS HOPE

ActionsHope was developed for a project called "Apps for Good" which aims to minimize problems in Portuguese society. Our application is called "Actions hope" and aims to help all seniors who live isolated or are alone. We have chosen this topic because in Sátão municipality there are many elderly living isolated and without contact with the world outside. Our application is simple and aims to help elderly people to turning ask for help in an emergency situation. The application has six buttons on the home screen. By pressing the button one it will call the 112, which in an emergency can be a fundamental help, because the elderly may be in danger and not know where to call; the second button opens another screen and will show the elderly the family contacts and friends, with whom they can talk whenever they feel alone or need something; the third button connects to the pharmacy where the elderly can order all the medicines they need, without having to go there; the fourth button will link to the central taxis number, in the case of the elderly people need to leave home; the fifth will link you to the health center, where the elderly can confirm whether or not they will have a medical appointments and the last one will allow the elderly to make a phone call to the nearest supermarket and ask for someone deliver the purchases at home.

To conclude, I think it was good to participate in this project, not only because we have improved our programming competences, but also because we hope everyone will enjoy our application.

AGRUPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

JUNE 2016

APP: MushTypes by The Viriatos

Our app is “Mushtypes” and we created this app because there is no guide to identify the vast variety of mushrooms in our region. So we are creating this app to help people to have the ability to compare the poisoned mushrooms with the healthy ones, assuming people’s well-being. We know that the potential users of this app are the population of Sátão, because we live here and in our app we give information about the mushrooms existing here, like their characteristics, recipes, their location and what we have to do in case of poisoning. Mushtypes is a simple app. In the first page there are three buttons. When we press the first one, we find 6 types of mushrooms existing in our region. We select one of them and then we find their characteristics, their appearance, where we can find them, easily confused mushrooms and some recipes. The second one is about “Feira do Míscaro”. When we press this button, we will find information about this market, like the date and the location. The last one is emergency. When we press this button, we have instructions about what we should do in case of poisoning. With the participation in the Apps for Good project, we developed our team spirit because we had to come together and organize ourselves to be able to do all the tasks proposed. We also realized there are some issues in our region that we didn’t know. Because we had to think of a solution for them, we became better citizens in this world.

AGURPAMENTO DE ESCOLAS DE SÁTÃO

JULY 2016