Everyday Young Hero Award
Anastasios-Romanos Varvarigos was selected as a YSA Everyday Young Hero because of his passion, creativity, and commitment to making an impact in the community.
Recognizing the efforts and potential of iCorona, Youth Service America was impressed with the passion for empowering youth to be active and making positive community changes.
YSA showcased iCorona and Anastasis profile as an Everyday Young Hero in the National Service Briefing, a weekly online newsletter with a 30,000+ circulation, in addition to highlighting the work through its social media outlets.
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Our Story
COVID-19 is an infectious disease first identified in December 2019 in China that has resulted in an ongoing pandemic.
It has caused almost 600.000 deaths and there have been more than 12.5 million cases worldwide.
Due to this pandemic, we decided that we wanted to do something to help the community.
So we chose to create an app that aims to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. We worked daily for months to create a safe and successful app.
Mission
Our mission is to try to decrease the future cases in Greece and stop the spread of the coronavirus.
The app that we created notifies you when you've been in close contact with another user of the app that has tested positive for the virus and gives you the percentage probability that you have contracted it.
This is done by users inserting their coordinates on their interface.
It also contains a form that you can fill in when you are showing some symptoms of the virus, and it will give you suggestions towards the preventative measures you should take.
Philosophy
We believe that prevention is the best way to combat this pandemic as:
“True prevention is not waiting for bad things to happen, it’s preventing things from happening in the first place.”
This can be seen by the quarantine being highly effective in in many countries that followed it en masse.
Ergo why we have decided to dedicate all our efforts on social distancing and preventative measures.
About Us
Anastasios-Romanos Varvarigos.
"Anastasios-Romanos Varvarigos the CEO of iCORONA. He is 17 years old and is a student in the third grade of upper secondary school, who loves computers and biology and is equally passionate about both engineering and medicine. He has won the second prize at the 78th, the third prize at the 79th and the second prize at the 80th national Panhellenic student mathematics competition Euclid of the Greek mathematic society.He is also very interested in politics and attempts to find solutions to help the world in any way he can."
Ellie Sachini
"Ellie is a high school students, who is passionate about design and computers"
Daphne Kontodima
"Daphne is a high school student who is passionate about marketing and computers"
Donate
Due to this pandemic, we decided that we wanted to do something to help the community.
So we chose to create an app that aims to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.
DonateIntroducing iCorona
In this video, an introduction to the functionalities of iCorona are demonstrated.
Please watch it and join iCorona.