13 year old’s awareness app at entreprener summit

Post Reply New Topic

Ivanka Trump may be dominating the headlines in India, but at age 13, Hamish Finlayson - the youngest entrepreneur at this year's Global Entrepreneurship Summit - is winning their hearts

I find the attention a bit overwhelming," he tells Fairfax Media.
This week alone, he has been featured in national Indian publications and television channels, and is now attracting worldwide media attention about his five apps, which are mostly short video games either aimed at saving sea turtles or increasing awareness about autism.

he now has five apps, which have been downloaded in 54 countries by more than 10,000 people

Finlayson is autistic. His app, TripleTandASD raises awareness of autism.

Finlayson points out that 1 per cent of the population live with autism, which is about 74 million people.
"People can't understand it [autism]," he says. "And so people mistreat those with autism. It's not nice. My app helps people better understand it."

He does this by making the user experience what it feels like to have autism and giving them tools to overcome it.
"For instance, Triple T is at a birthday party. An Elvis impersonator is singing for Triple T. And the other children are singing along but the noise becomes too loud for Triple T. So he goes to grab headphones so he can hear Elvis, but without the added noise."

Hamish gets crowd funding and grants for developing his apps. He also recently got $40,000 from Facebook for a program that he took part in at last year's summit in Silicon Valle