As part of its training and dissemination activities, Waternomics teams at NUIG hosted two interns (secondary school students) for a week (from 5th to 10th of June 2016).
This week @waternomics_eu @nuigalway @insight_centre hosted 2 #SecondarySchool student interns. We all learnt a lot! pic.twitter.com/m5vj91D96X
— WATERNOMICS (@waternomics_eu) June 10, 2016
Those students participated in training activities between two institutions:
- Civil Engineering Department, located at the Engineering Building at NUIG
- Insight Centre for Data Analytics at NUIG
The students were involved in multiple activities:
- Revist and understand the Waternomics platform
- Analysing water consumption data
- Building Water Footprint calulator using MIT app inventor
- Participating in testing and validating Waternomics apps
The overall experience was excellent. The feedback that the students gave regarding the school application were very highly perceived and changes to those applications are taken into consideration for a enhancing the user experience of our applications.
#usabilitytesting for #water #awareness apps with school kids from one of our pilot sites pic.twitter.com/TAUnII6FoX
— WATERNOMICS (@waternomics_eu) June 10, 2016