A 13-year-old girl from Cork City has won a global award after she took inspiration from her mother and developed an app that helps patients access occupational therapy services. Saanvi Kaushik saw how hard her mother worked as an occupational therapist to deliver care to patients over the course of the pandemic. The Christ King secondary school student designed an app called Stellar to help children access occupational therapy services on a remote basis. Saanvi was selected as the best in the Technology category at Technovation, a global competition that saw 5,900 girls from 60 countries develop apps that help solve problems within communities. Her fellow finalists in the junior division of the Technovation competition included teams from Brazil, Vietnam, the US, Sri Lanka, and Spain.

Source: Irish Examiner August 17, 2021 16:30 UTC