>> From Santa Clara, California,
in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE,
covering Technovation's World Pitch 2018.
Now here's Sonia Tagare.
>> Hi, welcome back.
I'm Sonia Tagare here with theCUBE
in Santa Clara, California
covering Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2018,
a pitch competition in which girls develop mobile apps
in order to create positive change in the world.
This week, 12 finalists are competing for their chance
to win the coveted gold or silver scholarships.
With us today from the state of Palestine,
we have team TMWZ and that stands for Tamara Awaisa,
and we have Masa Halawa,
Wasan Al-Sayed,
and Zubaida Al-Sadder,
and their mentor is Yamama Mahdi Shakaa.
Congratulations and welcome to theCUBE.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> So your app, Be a Firefighter, tell us more about that.
>> Who want to start?
>> Masa?
>> So Be a Firefighter is a virtual reality game
that provide awareness and entertainment
to let users be more aware about the fire situation
and be able to extinguish it
and prevent fire from happening.
>> That's awesome, and what was the reason
that you decided to make this app?
>> Several differents came to our school
and visit us and they told us
that there is a lot of fire accident.
Because of fire accident, loses and destruction,
and death, because of that we decide why we,
why we want to
(nervous laughter)
solve this problem.
Because of that we decided to make this app.
>> That's wonderful.
>> So what's the mission of your team?
>> We want to help many people,
so in the future we want to make it available
in many devices and we want to spread it to all people
to help them.
>> Oh that's wonderful. (giggling)
So why did you decide to join Technovation?
>> We decided to join Technovation
because we want to make a change in our own way
and help others.
So we find Technovation and we got into it.
>> That's awesome, so did you find out online
or did you find out through a chapter?
>> We find it in our school.
Our teachers told us about that challenge.
>> And where do you hope to see this app in five years
if you get funding?
>> We want to make it available on the web,
providing more level for all ages
and allow the player
to compete on social media like Facebook.
Also we want to make a version for hospital and organization
with more control that allows the the players
to do the action with their hands.
>> I hope you achieve that.
>> Yeah we hope.
>> What are you most excited about this week at Technovation?
>> Actually for all of these tours,
and the visiting Google and visiting NASA
and today we visited Nvidia.
We were so exciting, it's so amazing places and companies.
And also we are so exciting for the presentation
and the booth.
We are practicing so much so yeah, this feels like.
>> Very exciting.
How did you all meet?
>> And we want to represent Palestine well,
so that's real exciting too.
What's that again, yeah?
Oh yeah, we meet in the school,
we are in the same class at school
and we are sitting next to each other.
And we are friends from two years.
>> Are you all in high school?
>> Yeah. >> Yes.
>> Okay well thank you so much for being on theCUBE.
I'm so excited for your app
and I hope you see it in the App Store.
(giggling)
Thank you. >> Thank you so much.
>> We are here at Technovations World Pitch Summit 2018.
I'm Sonia Tagare, stay tuned for more.
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