14-year-old builds personalised news app, becomes co-founder of cloud computing firm

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 9 (ANI/NewsVoir): Fourteen-year-old Prajwal NH, a Grade 9 student of BGS National Public School, Bengaluru, has built a news app called NewsSir that allows users to curate and customise their newsfeed.
Prajwal was able to bring his dream project to fruition after attending a competition organised by Atal Innovation Mission with the guidance of his mentor Bhavesh Goswami, Founder & CEO of CloudThat. The project helped kickstart Prajwal's journey as a 'social entrepreneur' and he recently Co-founded Cloud Attack, a cloud computing solutions and consulting company.
A technology enthusiast and a budding social entrepreneur, Prajwal has been learning coding for three years and has a keen interest in building applications that have social implications and solve issues people face daily. He learnt coding from popular online code learning platform Codingal.
Speaking about his application NewsSir, Prajwal says, "I saw the gap between how most people around me consumed news and the news they actually wanted to read. I wanted to give people the option to have a personalised news feeds based on their taste and interests. I am happy I got an opportunity to build this app under Atal Innovation Mission and I hope more and more people will start using the app."
Prajwal was interested in electronics and robotics from a very young age. When he was in grade 6, he joined a robotics class which required him to learn C and C++ programming languages. He says he also enjoyed dismantling his toys and using the electronics to build his own motor-based toys.
The first time Prajwal realized the level of his coding skills and his real potential was when he attended a hackathon for school kids that was hosted by Codingal.
Prajwal says he was drawn to coding once he discovered the immense power that coding gave him to create anything and everything that he could imagine. "Learning to code helped me realize one of my dream projects. I urge fellow coders to start creating applications and experiment more. Like me, they too can come up with exciting solutions to solve big problems. We do not need any high-level calculus or knowledge of physics to code, you just need the desire to learn and create. Learning to code helped me develop logical and analytical thinking and I now use that to create solutions to the problems I see around me."
The first time Prajwal realized the level of his coding skills and his real potential was when he attended a hackathon for school kids that was hosted by Codingal.
"When Prajwal participated in a Hackathon we had hosted with BIT Mesra in 2020, he had already been coding for three years and his level of innovation and out-of-the-box thinking immediately caught our attention. We are proud to have him on the Codingal platform and to see him realise his dream," says Codingal Co-founder Vivek Prakash.
"Codingal is always looking to identify and nurture such talent among children and to provide them a platform and all the necessary tools to fully express their creativity," Vivek adds.
Codingal is an online coding platform on a mission to make school kids fall in love with coding through personalized, 1-on-1 coding classes and exciting coding competitions. Codingal has already empowered over 100,000 kids from over 5,000 schools to create a better future with code.
Codingal has developed the world's first coding curriculum that integrates the BIDE Model (broad, inspiring, deep, efficient) with Bloom's Taxonomy with a dedicated focus on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) subjects. The curriculum helps children develop a deeper understanding of STEM subjects and improves their performance at school, all as they learn the essential 21-century skill and become the creators of a better future.
Codingal is an online coding platform for K-12 (school) kids with a mission to help children fall in love with coding at a young age. Launched in September 2020 and backed by Y Combinator, Codingal has already empowered over 100,000 kids by motivating them to start learning coding via competitions and 1-on-1 online classes with all-star teachers. Codingal has developed the world's first coding curriculum that integrates the BIDE Model with Bloom's Taxonomy to promote STEM learning.
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