PUPILS were challenged to design a new app to try to cure polio.
The Rotary Club of Colchester asked Year 7 and 8 pupils at the Gilberd School, in Colchester, to design a game in which they would try to end the infectious disease.
They had to create a superhero character within their game for the project, which was called End Polio Now.
More than 100 ideas were submitted and the winners were announced during a school assembly.
Tom Lee and Abigail Nowels were named joint winners, while Alice Parker, Emily Blackman, Cora Ingram-Smith and Emma McDonald were highly commended.
Rotarian Peter Herring said: “The characters they invested were amazing.
“When their names were called out, they were really delighted.”
The organisation hopes to find a partner to turn the game into a Rotary International Project to raise cash to eradicate polio.
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