CEZ Vânzare and the Progress Foundation launch the App Inventor – Green TECH App contest and award the best ideas that combine technology with environmental responsibility. The organizers are challenging children aged 10 to 14 to develop an application on the MIT App Inventor platform, on the subject of green energy, and to discover the spirit of #CEZGreenGeneration, a future-oriented generation.
Until October 18, children are invited to create an application, using concepts of energy from renewable sources.
“We are pleased to initiate, together with our partners, this educational activity for children, designed to encourage the development of digital skills, imagination and responsibility for the environment. It is a different way of learning and an additional proof that the technology can be used for the benefit of the new generation,” said Cornelia Szabo – Executive Director and President of the CEZ Sales Department.
“We at CODE Kids encourage children to develop applications that help them in their lives, but also in the community. We initiated the GREEN TECH APP contest, through which we challenge children aged 10-14 to develop an app in App Inventor, which will come with an effective solution for protecting the environment. We hope that in the future as many children as possible will be closer to new technologies, in support of a sustainable future, based on green energy, in which resources are protected,” added Ovidiu Ana, CODE Kids project manager.
CEZ Vânzare has been collaborating since 2018 with the Progress Foundation for the development of the CODE Kids project, meant to create a coding and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) movement in which children, young people and librarians in rural areas develop their digital skills and get involved in community life by solving creative digital themes. In 2019, CEZ volunteers held over 20 workshops on non-technical skills (leadership, public speaking and sales techniques) for 282 children from Argeș, Vâlcea and Gorj counties. Moreover, the program benefited from a green innovation by installing 60 photovoltaic panels at the Gymnasium School in Mușătești and laptops to equip the clubs.