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Turkmen schoolchildren won a prize in the Google competition.
16 Oct. 09:20Ashgabat schoolchildren Begench Annaorazov, Aykhan Bayramov, and Salykh Annanepesov took second place in the Firebase Studio Championship Central Asia 2025 competition.
All 12th-grade students from Specialized Secondary School No. 97.
The students presented a project called TerraVibe and placed among the top ten teams. In the finals, they took a respectable second place and were awarded special certificates of honor and cash prizes from Google.
To participate in the competition, the teams had to develop an innovative project using Firebase Studio and Gemini API technologies. Specifically, the task was to create a mobile app powered by artificial intelligence.
The TerraVibe app, developed by the participants from Turkmenistan, uses a camera to analyze the condition of a plant and, using AI, to identify damaged or defective areas from an image.
The students noted that they consulted with teachers from the computer department of the Kämil Bilim Erjeller educational center when developing the project.
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