Congratulations to Paige Frank, who won the CGI I.T. Girl Challenge. Paige teamed up with Tomi Olaore through the Boys and Girls Club of Western PA, and developed GradeUp, a mobile app that gives students a platform to communicate and help each other with schoolwork to help create better study habits.
Participants were tasked with using Thunkable to create an app that could help solve a problem. Paige and Tomi wanted to do something to help students struggling due to COVID-19.
While they knew they had a good app, Paige said she was surprised to learn judges picked their app as the best. Paige and Tomi will split the $20,000 scholarship. When asked what she plans to do in the future, Paige says she is leaning toward a career in computer science.
Congratulations to Paige and Tomi!