I won the gold medal for "Citizen Programmer"

A citizen student invents a tracking device to protect children from loss

Sarah benefited from her participation in the "Citizen Programmer" program.

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A student in the eleventh grade at Al Rashidiya School for Secondary Education in Dubai invented a "child tracker" device to protect children from being lost in public places. Police and security personnel help search for missing children, and parents check on their children while they are shopping in public markets.

Student Sarah Youssef Al-Marzouqi told "Emirates Today" that she noticed the recurrence of the scene of security personnel searching for missing children in shopping centers, or witnessed parents' fear about their missing children in public places, and through her participation in the "Citizen Programmer" program at Hamdan bin Mohammed University. Smart, I learned many things about computing and the Internet of things for three weeks, and the fruit of this successful program was that I accomplished this innovation.

She explained that a smart button "Flic", which is a wireless button, is installed in the child's clothes, and it is programmed with the Google Maps application on the mother's or father's phone, so that it determines the child's location in any place if it is lost, and can be controlled so that the child can He called for help by pressing the fixed button, which signals that he has lost his way back to his parents.

Al-Marzouki pointed out that the device has multiple uses, but it benefits children in general, especially autistic children, because they are most likely to be lost in public places.

Last week, she won the gold medal and first place for this innovation in the “Citizen Programmer” program, organized by Hamdan Bin Mohammed Al-Smart University.

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