Students of Transcarpathian College created a stick with an SOS button and a GPS tracker — it helps save lives.
Students of Transcarpathian College created a stick with an SOS button and a GPS tracker — it helps save lives.
«A stick with an SOS button and a GPS tracker is a unique development of students of the Stick-Friend mini-company of the Svalyavsky Vocational College. Such a device will help save more than one life when there is no one nearby to help, when there is no signal or insufficient battery charge on the phone,» said the head of the Transcarpathian OVA, Myroslav Biletsky.
Participants of the Stick Friend mini-company from the Svalyava Vocational College in the Transcarpathian region) became the winners of the all-Ukrainian competition «JA Company of the Year 2025» from Junior Achievement Ukraine and participants of the international youth entrepreneurship festival Gen-E 2025 in Athens.
The company says that they want to test their product on the target audience, refine it, and then launch it on the market.
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