'Fartie' wins Whitcap.jr global challenge

The much awaited results of the 'Global app contest' Whitecap.jr ran in over a hundred countries were finally announced yesterday. The app contest, publicised widely on television, posed three challenges for kids under 10 to solve through apps - global hunger, climate change and the energy crisis. Over a lakh entries were received and a jury comprising an elite panel of experts across disciplines took over a month to pick the winner. 

In what came as a surprise to many, Fartie, an app that makes fart noises everytime you click, picked from a databank of over 5 such noises - the brainchild of Rithik, an 8 year old coding prodigy from Mumbai, received the top honour. The top ten entries (all variants of Fartie, in what was an unexpected coincidence), get seed funding to develop their respective fartie apps and work towards a mid-year market launch.