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In 2020 JFD launched the 1st edition of les Margaret Junior Awards, which are aimed at young European and African girls between the ages of 7 and 18, who innovate, and have the spirit of entrepreneurship… the future generation that will change the world.
Call for applications opens on 8 November 2023
You are a young girl aged between 7 and 18.
You are Canadian or a citizen of a European or African country.
Your project addresses a major global issue (health, environment, energy, mobility, education, etc.) through the application of technology and showcases your entrepreneurial spirit… or creativity through computer programming, an application, a game or the use of technology (artificial intelligence, 3D, big data, IoT, etc.) in the development of a prototype.
The call for applications will close on 8 January 2024. The finalists for les Margaret Junior Awards 2024 will be pre-selected by JFD, then presented on 8 February 2024 to a jury of experts who will elect 3 Margaret Juniors:
The Margaret Junior Awards ceremony will take place on 17 April 2024.
Youngsess project · 15 years old
Application to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to access quality school resources.
Inaya Yoga wants to study political science at Science Po.
Her project “Youngsess” reflects her aspirations to help others. Inaya’s project aims to reduce the lack of access to educational resources for disadvantaged communities through an app that provides a platform for academic discussion, advice sharing, mentoring and sponsorship. Her app offers an alternative to costly school resources.
🇫🇷 France
Immo’Sure project · 17 years old
Securing the real estate market in Africa and protecting its actors.
Melissa is studying Computer Science to specialise in Software Engineering. She is currently in her first year of Computer Science at the IUT Fotso Victor in Bandjoun, Cameroon.
Her project is a platform related to the Land Registry that allows people inside and outside the country to buy land or a house in complete security.
🇨🇲 Cameroon
En digne héritière de Margaret Hamilton, pionnière et Informaticienne de la NASA, qui a transporté l’Humanité sur la Lune au travers la Mission Apollo 11 en 1969, les Margaret 2023 ont reçu une broche Lunar designée par l’artiste Constance Guisset.
Two of the finalists will win les Margaret Awards and benefit from the JFD growth acceleration programme.
The winners of les Margaret Junior Awards will be revealed on 17 April in Paris at the award ceremony, under the high patronage of the President of the French Republic.
POINTEX project · 18 years old
A platform that turns students’ grades into points to buy cultural goods.
Pointex is a platform where teachers will be able to enter students’ grades, which will be converted into points for students to spend on activities: concerts, gaming, books, music, sport events, etc.
🇫🇷 France
SAVE THE EARTH project · 16 years old
An educational video game to raise ecological awareness among young people.
Save the Earth is a video game set in an apocalyptic world where the protagonist must complete tasks to “clean up” Earth on each level.
🇫🇷 France
Youngsess project · 15 years old
An application that helps young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to access quality educational resources.
Youngsess offers an alternative to expensive school resources, with an app for academic discussion, advice sharing, mentoring and sponsorship.
🇫🇷 France
17 years old
Reduce CO2 emissions and metal residues in the air.
Her project involves modifying the structure of aluminium smokestacks to reduce CO2 emissions and metal residues in the air.
🇪🇬 Egypt
17 years old
Securing the real estate market in Africa and protecting its actors.
Her project is a platform linked to the Land Registry that allows people inside and outside the country to buy land or a house in complete security.
🇨🇲 Cameroon
E-COL’LECTE project · 18 years old
Providing access to education for the most disadvantaged children.
E-COL’LECTE is a platform for the collect of textbooks and school uniforms dedicated to the poorest households.
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
Securing the real estate market in Africa and protecting its actors.
Melissa, 17, is studying Computer Science to specialise in Software Engineering. She is currently in her first year of Computer Science at the IUT Fotso Victor in Bandjoun, Cameroon.
Her project “Immo’Sure” is a platform related to the Land Registry that allows people inside and outside the country to buy land or a house in complete security.
🇨🇲 Cameroon
Application to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to access quality school resources.
Inaya Yoga, 15, wants to study political science at Science Po.
Her project “Youngsess” reflects her aspirations to help others. Inaya’s project aims to reduce the lack of access to educational resources for disadvantaged communities through an app that provides a platform for academic discussion, advice sharing, mentoring and sponsorship. Her app offers an alternative to costly school resources.
🇫🇷 France
Enabling education everywhere
15, created MTutor, an e-learning platform designed to provide an adaptable, scalable, safe and secure learning tool.
🇿🇦 South Africa
A bubble of love and restore confidence to victims of school bullying
Allyah, 14 years old, is developing KidShare, a PWA, a progressive web application to fight against school bullying: reports, help and support for victims, testimonies from former victims, etc.
🇫🇷 France
Software engineering student Xaviera Kowo, 18, became the first winner of the Margaret Junior Awards 2021 in the Africa category. The young Cameroonian presented her waste processing robot. Capable of picking up debris as it passes by and transporting it to a defined area (garbage bins, waste disposal centre, recycling centre, etc.) in record time. As a teenager, she became interested in STEM, attended seminars and became fascinated by the success stories of women in tech. This allowed her to develop skills such as public speaking, even forgetting her shyness. Today, one of her deepest wishes is to inspire other young people, especially girls, to reach their potential.
🇨🇲 Cameroon
First Margaret Junior, Louise was 11 years old when she received the award for Together, her project for a mobile application to improve medical monitoring for children and people with disabilities. Her solution facilitates medical communication between the doctor and the legal guardian(s) by allowing all those involved with the patient to exchange and consult medical data at the click of a button.Louise lives her life and her passions as she sees fit, without being influenced by stereotypes. She lives her life and her passions as she sees fit, without being influenced by stereotypes, between training at the football club, school, reading literary series, her coding lessons and creating games on Scratch. When asked what she would like to do in the future, the young girl replies that she would like to be a professional footballer or a video game designer, but that whatever her choice, she will always be interested in the digital world.
🇫🇷 France
Rose Goyéli Tuo, 15, X-Market, an application for monitoring urbanization, allowing management of the often anarchic implantation of roadside stores. It thus reduces accidents, neighborhood quarrels, and altercations between vendors and public authorities (seizures, destruction of goods, etc.).
🇨🇮 Ivory Coast
Manon Van Hoorebeke, 17, Programmer, who is working on a community application giving access to information on STEM to young girls: workshops, masterclasses, development of collaborative projects, etc
🇧🇪 Belgium
