Con­grat­u­la­tions are in or­der for the win­ning teams of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion’s Girls Pow­er Tech 2021. Of the ten com­pet­ing teams, three emerged vic­to­ri­ous at the end of the Hackathon on day two.

The hackathon, which is a main fea­ture of the GPT event, chal­lenges young women to brain­storm and de­vel­op tech­nol­o­gy-based so­lu­tions for so­cial chal­lenges.

The top­ics this year fo­cussed on re­new­able en­er­gy and en­er­gy so­lu­tions, ed­u­ca­tion, re­viv­ing small busi­ness­es and gen­der-based vi­o­lence.

Last week, the girls who formed the win­ning teams paid a cour­tesy vis­it to Dig­i­cel in C3, San Fer­nan­do to re­ceive their well-de­served prizes which ranged from Snapchat spec­ta­cles to smart face track­ing tripods to self­ie ring lights.

Loop TT Content Manager Nneka Parsanlal, centre, congratulates the third place team, SJCSF Tech Defenders, for participating in GPT 2021 and placeping third in the competition. The team designed an app “Renergy Dash’ to address renewable energy and energy solutions. They were presented with 12” Phone Screen Magnifiers.

Ad­di­tion­al­ly, three girls al­so re­ceived MVP to­kens for demon­strat­ing lead­er­ship and pos­i­tive team spir­it dur­ing the com­pe­ti­tion. The first 30 teams to reg­is­ter all re­ceived a mi­ni self­ie light as to­kens, cour­tesy of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion.

Dig­i­cel Busi­ness gen­er­al man­ag­er Lau­rence Mod­este, Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion CEO Pen­ny Gomez and LoopTT con­tent man­ag­er Nneka Parsan­lal were on hand to in­ter­act with the girls and al­so, to ex­tend con­grat­u­la­tions. All COVID-19 pro­to­cols were ob­served.

Ten teams of 50 young women, be­tween the ages of 13 to 18 years, par­tic­i­pat­ed in Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion’s GPT 2021.

The two-day vir­tu­al event was host­ed vir­tu­al­ly via Cae­sar’s Army An­til­lea World via Mi­crosoft’s Alt­space and Mi­crosoft teams.

GPT 2021 was host­ed by Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion and spon­sored by Dig­i­cel Busi­ness, Shell T&T Ltd and LoopTT.

Digicel Foundation CEO Penny Gomez, right, presents one of the girls with MVP tokens for demonstrating leadership and positive team spirit during the competition.