Student-Made Projects on Climate Change

In the Innovation Camp, some student projects tacked climate change through zooming in to more specific problems connected with it. The students aimed to address the global problem through working on solutions that could immediately be used in the local community. The students used recyclable materials and other tech tools to work on the prototype versions of their solutions. Here are two sample projects.

Student Project 1: Carpool Campaign

The students who worked on the carpool campaign aimed to give a more visual representation of how carpooling can reduce the amount and effect of pollution in the atmosphere. According to the group, the toxic pollutants that come from cars have been adding to the rising level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere which traps more and more sunlight, raising the temperature on earth’s surface. Moreover, this would also lessen the effects of car emissions to one’s health and to the heavy traffic exprienced everyday in major cities. So, using recycled materials, they imagined a campaign material that would compare the effect of carpooling to the usual drive-your-own-car situations.

Student Project 2: Mobile Game Apps for Segregation

A number of groups also worked on creating simple mobile apps that could teach students to segrate trash properly. It is well-known that human trash has been contributing to the climate change problem. In school, students are taught to segrate their trash properly so that proper disposal is done accordingly. However, according to these groups, their fellow kids are sometimes lazy to sort their trash. Hence, they created simple game apps that could teach other kids how to sort their trash properly. What was amazing in these projects was that the students were able to bring out their passion and curiosity with app development to address the problem. Truly a magnificent work!

The young coders also pitched their apps to the App Jamming Summit in the Philippines, a competition for young coders to design apps that would address sustainability and environmental problems. One of the apps, Sort It, has won in the national app-creation competition for young coders and represented the Philippines in the App Jamming Summit Hong Kong in 2018.