Ideation team in final at weekend
The Cross & Passion College 'Ideation' team which won through to the final of the Intel-sponsored young entrepreneurs competition will be going head to head with teams from 13 other schools next Saturday, writes Brian Byrne. And the winners get to go to Silicon Valley for a week.
An idea for an iPhone case that doubles as a diabetes monitor secured a place in the finals for Aaron McLoughlin-Sutherland, Godwin Jalanga, Bevan Murray, Robyn Kenny, Caoimhe O'Fearghaill, and Wayne Donohoe.
The team won out against other TY teams from the school at the end of the first Intel Ideation Workshop in CPC in February, organised by Kilcullen Lions Club.
The team's concept includes an app which will give instant blood sugar reading from a blood test strip inserted into a computerised reader that's part of the case. If blood sugar is low, the app will tell the owner to take some sugar gel that's part of the kit, and if it is critical a phone message with GPS location and details will be automatically sent to the owner's doctor and parents.
It's the first year the Intel Ideation workshops have been run in Ireland. Some 1,500 students have taken part, from schools as far apart as Skibereen, Kinsale, Tullamore and Carrickmacross. The final is at the Intel plant in Leixlip.
