Education app aims to engage at-risk teens

Sean Lyons of Waterford Institute of Technology, which developed the mCommunity app

Software developers at Waterford Institute of Technology (Wit) are tackling unemployment in former Welsh mining towns with a learning app for out-of-work teens.

Wit’s Telecommunications Software and Systems Group has been working with Wales’s Pembrokeshire College and Gower College Swansea for four years.

The result is mCommunity, a mobile app designed to draw young people at ...