(upbeat techno music) >> Announcer: From Santa Clara
California it's theCUBE.
Covering Technovation World Pitch Summit 2019.
Brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media.
Now here's Sonia Tagare.
>> Hi and welcome to theCUBE,
I'm your host, Sonia Tagare
and we're here at Oracle's Agnews Campus
in Santa Clara, California
covering Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019.
A pitch competition in which girls from around the world
develop mobile apps in order
to create positive change in the world.
With us today we have Team Powerful Daisies from Brazil.
>> Hi.
>> And their app's called Safe Tears.
So their members are Anna Ferronato,
Clara Pithon, Ana Julia Giacomeli,
Emanuela Maraskin, Jhuly Carvalho.
Welcome to theCUBE and congratulations
on being finalists.
>> Thank you.
>> So your app, Safe Tears, tell us more about that.
>> So our app is a suicide prevention app
in which each user gets his own glass of blue feelings
where the user adds or remove tears
accordingly with his feelings.
So if the user is sad they add tears
and if they're happy they take tears out.
>> Wow, that's amazing.
So can you tell us how someone would use the app?
>> So let's say I'm sad, so I go to the app and I add tears.
So as my tear percentage rises
the app will send motivational messages to me
like saying go talk to somebody
or go find help and also encouraging me to get better.
And if I'm happy I take tears out
and I get messages like congratulating me
because I'm doing better.
>> So is there like a graph of your improvement
of how you feel some days versus
how you feel the other days?
>> We would like to implement that in the future
but right now in this version
of the app that is not available yet.
>> Okay, well that would be a great thing to implement.
>> Yeah it would be.
>> So how did you come up with this idea?
>> So in our community there were a lot of suicide cases
and of course we've seen our friends and family
and it was something that really needed more help.
So we went to a lecture about suicide
and a woman said that we are like a glass of water.
We fill that up and then one day all the water gets out
and then somebody tries to suicide themself.
So we wanted this person to realize
that she is getting worse so she can find help
before anything bad happens.
>> And I know that sometimes giving advice to someone
who's depressed can be very tricky
and you have to make sure you're saying the right thing.
So how did you find out what kind of advice
to give in your app?
>> Yeah we had help of our school psychologist,
so she was there with us the whole time
we were developing and she helped us do every single message
that the app sends to the person is,
you know, viewed by her.
>> Has anyone used the app and has felt better
or any success stories?
>> The app hasn't still launched
but we did tested it and people really liked it
and thought that they would use it.
>> That's amazing.
So how did you all meet and why did you decide
to join Technovation?
>> So we are from the same school,
from different classes but we are from the same school,
so we met there and our teacher showed us
the documentary "Code Girl"
and that inspired us to join Technovation
because we thought it would be a cool experience.
>> And so how did Technovation help you
achieve your goals and make your app better?
>> So without Technovation of course,
we couldn't be here and get all this experience
and learnings to improve our app.
So it's helping a lot.
>> And can you tell us more specifically
like what skills have you learned from Technovation?
>> Like programming, public speaking--
(laughing)
and about business, we learned a lot doing
the business plan, about marketing
and publicity, and all that.
>> And I heard you guys had an amazing week,
this week you went to Uber, you saw Golden Gate Bridge.
Can you tell us more about the highlights
of the week you've had?
>> Yeah we went to Uber of course
and we talked to people there, it was amazing,
talked to employees and seeing how is life there
and also we went to the Golden Bridge
and we crossed the bridge.
It was a little bit hard, you know,
we're not used to exercising.
And last night we had a dance party,
which was really fun and we got to interact
with people from all over the world
and it was amazing.
>> That's so great.
Well thank you so much for coming on.
I'm so looking forward to seeing your app
in the App Store one day.
And congratulations and good luck for the pitch tonight.
>> Thank you so much.
>> This has been Team Powerful Daisies from Brazil.
This is the Cube, we'll see you next time.
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