The Angus Schools Competition has inspired a group of schoolgirls from St Aloysius School, Co Cork, to develop an educational app promoting the Angus breed.
Kelsey Hourigan, Leah Buckley, Helen Savage, Emily O’Donovan and Rachel O’Gorman from St Aloysius School, Cork, developed an educational app and hope that it will give them a competitive edge in the competition.
Kelsey Hourigan, Leah Buckley, Helen Savage , Emily O’Donovan and Rachel O’Gorman from St Aloysius School, Cork, who developed an educational app as part of the Angus Schools Competition.
“We were first going to do a board game or a book but we thought no one has seen something like this,” Kelsey Hourigan told the Irish Farmers Journal.
“It was our first time developing an app. There were girls in our school who developed an app and showed us how to do it and then we just did more research ourselves online on how to make it.
“We’re hoping to upload it to the Google Play store in the next couple of months.”
The app is called Angus Adventures and rewards users with a fact about Angus cattle every time they complete a task correctly, such as cleaning or feeding the Angus in the app.
The girls are all 16 and none of them come from a farm background but were keen to take part in the competition.
“Our teacher came to us about the competition and we just thought it would be really could to get into it and show that even though none of us are from farming backgrounds and that we could go far in the competition,” Kelsey said.
They’re also looking forward to rearing calves as part of the competition.
“We’re not getting the five calves until the National Ploughing Championships, but they’re going to stay up on a farm in Watergrasshill and we all can’t wait to get them.
“We met them on our training day and they’re so cute. None of us have done this before so it’s just going to be really interesting.”
You can follow the girls and their Angus Adventures on Instagram: @st.alsangus.
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The Angus Schools Competition has inspired a group of schoolgirls from St Aloysius School, Co Cork, to develop an educational app promoting the Angus breed.
Kelsey Hourigan, Leah Buckley, Helen Savage, Emily O’Donovan and Rachel O’Gorman from St Aloysius School, Cork, developed an educational app and hope that it will give them a competitive edge in the competition.
Kelsey Hourigan, Leah Buckley, Helen Savage , Emily O’Donovan and Rachel O’Gorman from St Aloysius School, Cork, who developed an educational app as part of the Angus Schools Competition.
“We were first going to do a board game or a book but we thought no one has seen something like this,” Kelsey Hourigan told the Irish Farmers Journal.
“It was our first time developing an app. There were girls in our school who developed an app and showed us how to do it and then we just did more research ourselves online on how to make it.
“We’re hoping to upload it to the Google Play store in the next couple of months.”
The app is called Angus Adventures and rewards users with a fact about Angus cattle every time they complete a task correctly, such as cleaning or feeding the Angus in the app.
The girls are all 16 and none of them come from a farm background but were keen to take part in the competition.
“Our teacher came to us about the competition and we just thought it would be really could to get into it and show that even though none of us are from farming backgrounds and that we could go far in the competition,” Kelsey said.
They’re also looking forward to rearing calves as part of the competition.
“We’re not getting the five calves until the National Ploughing Championships, but they’re going to stay up on a farm in Watergrasshill and we all can’t wait to get them.
“We met them on our training day and they’re so cute. None of us have done this before so it’s just going to be really interesting.”
You can follow the girls and their Angus Adventures on Instagram: @st.alsangus.
Read more
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Animal health plays a key role from farm to fork
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