Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing
From underserved communities needing extra assist with children’ schooling, to struggling to protect the recollections of handed family members. In our newest launch of #WeArePlay tales, we’re celebrating the inspiring founders who recognized issues round them and made apps or video games to resolve them.
Beginning with Maria, Annmaria and Dennis from Minnesota, USA – founders of 7 Technology Video games. Rising up as a Latina in rural North Dakota, Maria needed to construct one thing impressed by her experiences and assist assist the schooling hole in underserved communities. She teamed up together with her mother AnnMaria, a instructor and laptop programmer, and software program developer Dennis, to arrange 7 Technology Video games. They make academic video games – in English, Spanish and indigenous languages – to enhance math abilities of Hispanic and Native American kids. Making Camp Ojibwe is a village-building simulation the place gamers earn factors by answering math and social research questions. Now with a number of titles, their video games are confirmed to enhance kids’s faculty outcomes.
Subsequent, David, Arman & Hayk from Armenia – founders of Zoomerang. After importing his music on-line, David bought restricted views as a result of his video enhancing wasn’t partaking. It was his ardour for music that led him to start out Zoomerang with co-founders Arman and Hayk. They created a platform the place content material creators might get enhancing templates for his or her movies, permitting 1000’s to develop their model and vivify their content material.
Subsequent, Rama from Jordan – founding father of Little Pondering Minds. When she and her buddy and co-founder Lamia had their first boys, they struggled to search out assets to show their kids Arabic. So, they utilized their background in movie manufacturing and began making kids’s movies in Arabic of their backyards. After they held a screening at a neighborhood cinema, over 500 mother and father and kids got here to observe it, they usually needed to display it a number of instances. A couple of years later and the content material is now digitized in a collection of apps utilized in colleges of 10 international locations. The most well-liked, I Learn Arabic, has academic movies, books, video games, and a dashboard for academics to trace college students’ progress.
Final however not least, Prakash from South Africa – founding father of ForKeeps. When Prakash’s sister handed away, his nieces longed to listen to her voice once more and preserve her reminiscence alive. When his father died, he felt the identical and regretted not having all his images and messages in a single place. This impressed Prakash and his co-founders to create ForKeeps: a platform for preserving an individual’s legacy with photograph albums, tales, and voice messages. By way of the app, folks can really feel their beloved one’s presence after they’re gone. The Ceaselessly Album software additionally permits the viewers to share and have fun particular events in actual time. Now Prakash’s objective is to assist extra folks throughout completely different cultures world wide report recollections for his or her family members.
Try their tales now at g.co/play/weareplay and preserve a watch out for extra tales coming quickly.
