Posted by Leticia Lago, Developer Advertising and marketing
From underserved communities needing extra help with youngsters’ schooling, to struggling to protect the reminiscences 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 Era Video games. Rising up as a Latina in rural North Dakota, Maria wished to construct one thing impressed by her experiences and assist help the schooling hole in underserved communities. She teamed up together with her mother AnnMaria, a trainer and pc programmer, and software program developer Dennis, to arrange 7 Era Video games. They make instructional video games – in English, Spanish and indigenous languages – to enhance math expertise 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 college outcomes.
Subsequent, David, Arman & Hayk from Armenia – founders of Zoomerang. After importing his music on-line, David acquired restricted views as a result of his video modifying wasn’t partaking. It was his ardour for music that led him to begin Zoomerang with co-founders Arman and Hayk. They created a platform the place content material creators may get modifying 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. Once they held a screening at an area cinema, over 500 mother and father and youngsters got here to observe it, they usually needed to display it a number of instances. Just a few years later and the content material is now digitized in a sequence of apps utilized in faculties of 10 international locations. The preferred, I Learn Arabic, has instructional movies, books, video games, and a dashboard for lecturers 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 picture albums, tales, and voice messages. Via the app, folks can really feel their liked one’s presence after they’re gone. The Eternally Album device additionally permits the viewers to share and have a good time particular events in actual time. Now Prakash’s aim is to assist extra folks throughout completely different cultures around the globe report reminiscences for his or her family members.
Take a look at their tales now at g.co/play/weareplay and preserve a watch out for extra tales coming quickly.
