14-Year-Old's Virtual Classroom App Wins IIT Roorkee's App Innovation Challenge

Delhi | Tuesday | 23rd February, 2021

Summary:

14 year old Aritra Neogi, Class IX student of Kendriya Vidyalaya (AFS), Barrackpore West Bengal has won the IIT Roorkee’s E-Summit'21 App Innovation Challenge for his app named ‘Yesmam - Realtime Classroom’. He received a certificate from IIT Roorkee along with Codingal Merchandise. IIT Roorkee organised this competition a few weeks ago in partnership with Codingal, an online coding platform for K-12 (school) students. Codingal App Innovation ChallengeManas Hejmadi (St Paul's English School, Bengaluru) and Lakshay Kumar (Jiva Public School, Faridabad) of classes XI and XII were first and second runners up respectively. Done the right way, it can be a valuable skill with lifelong benefits for school children.”The IIT Roorkee App Innovation Challenge was open to students from Grade 8 to 12..