Car-pooling may not be new, but developing it into an online application to help mothers with children in primary schools is a prize-winning idea.
Parent Pool won first place at the first Government-led hackathon, which ended at the National University of Singapore yesterday.
“We wanted to look for a user group in Singapore which had a strong identity. So we picked the mums of primary school-going children,” said 26-year-old co-founder Titus Seah, who works at PUB, the national water agency.
Parent Pool is an online programme that allows mothers to meet and assist one another in car-pooling kids to school. This service can save fuel and cause fewer traffic jams, said Mr Seah, who met the other two co-founders, Mr Anthony Chow, and Mr Chan Haoyee, both also 26, at Stanford University.
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