{"id":6797,"date":"2024-03-26T16:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solvefortomorrowlatam.com\/?post_type=pratica&p=6797"},"modified":"2024-10-30T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T14:53:21","slug":"young-people-create-an-app-at-school-to-facilitate-the-use-of-public-transportation","status":"publish","type":"pratica","link":"https:\/\/solvefortomorrowlatam.com\/en\/case\/young-people-create-an-app-at-school-to-facilitate-the-use-of-public-transportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people create an app at school to facilitate the use of public transportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You are in class or in  a meeting and part of the group has not arrived because they had difficulties with public transportation. Or you are late for an appointment after waiting a long time for the bus. Do these scenes sound familiar to you? Young Jorge Cigarroa thought about these sequences while heading to a \u201cbrainstorming\u201d meeting with his school group. What he did not imagine is that those thoughts would be the kick-off for an innovative project that earned his group first place in the 10th edition of Solve for Tomorrow Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were thinking about the social challenges<\/a> of the city to use our knowledge on technology and create a project that offered a solution to society. But Jorge did not arrive,\u201d explains Jesus Ba\u00f1uelos, mediator teacher<\/a> of the project \u00bfEn cu\u00e1nto llega? (\u201cHow long will it take?\u201d, in English), from the College of Scientific and Technological Studies of the State of Mexico (CECyTEM Tultepec).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jorge was the only graphic design student in a group with three programming students – two of the school’s technical professional education courses. \u201cWe were waiting for Jorge so we could get a complete idea of the challenges and opportunities. The students said that he was late because of the bus. So I  told them that this was a problem we could solve,\u201d recalls the teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project was carried out under the Innovation Department of CECyTEM Tultepec, where they recruit, through theoretical and practical exams, the best students to create solutions with social impact<\/a>. The students involved are 17 and 18 years old and were in the last two years of technical education when the project was created (that is the last stage of compulsory schooling).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

22 million people can benefit from the app<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico where the school is located is the most populated metropolitan region in the country, with almost 22 million inhabitants. It is also the second most populated metropolitan region in America and the fourth in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As in many similar places on the planet, public transportation users in this area face a constant risk of theft and insecurity on public roads as well as uncertainty, worry, constant delays, and ignorance about the status of the routes and their times. The students experienced the effects of this context, so they concluded that the most interesting thing would be to create an app so that anyone could track public transportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More accessible infrastructure to create an app<\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to the educator, compiling a mobile application usually requires a lot of resources and powerful computers. \u201cBut, as we say in Mexico, there are many ways to skin a cat,\u201d says the teacher. Which means, there are many ways to do something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ba\u00f1uelos relates that while they were researching how to do this through the web with QR codes, (a barcode that can be scanned with mobile phones equipped with a camera), student Diego began looking for options and discovered an innovative technology called React Native: a library that uses JavaScript, used to develop applications for Android and iOS systems natively. With this new possibility, the dream of the app seemed closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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