Salamanca, Gto., November 19, 2015.- With the development of an educational application by the name "Mathfoot", the student from the University of Guanajuato, Marco Antonio Contreras Cruz, obtained the 2nd place in the contest "APPS Prize" organized by the national foundation "Telefónica".

The prize recognizes young peoples among 18 and 30 years old who create the best educational applications to support professors and students in basic education using Android, FirefoxOS, iOS and Windows Phone.

Marco Contreras in in the way of concluding his master in Electrical Engineering in the option of instrumenting and digital systems at Campus Irapuato – Salamanca from UG; also, he is a student from the Laboratory of Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (LaViRIA for its acronym in Spanish). The application he developed has the objective to propose arithmetic challenges in three difficulty levels and it targets elementary school students.

The purpose of the contest was the development of innovative educational applications that can help professors in elementary education and improve the achievement of its students mainly in public schools. More than 70 teams from all over the country attended the call, and more than 200 software developers integrated them.

The prize ceremony occurred in the Center of Digital Culture in Mexico City in an event led by Nidia Chávez, subdirector of the Foundation "Telefónica" in Mexico. She also had the company from high executives from Sony Mobile, IBM, Wayra, Qualcomm, who were allies of "Telefónica" in the contest's organization.

The APPS prize seeks to encourage the innovation and creative use of open source technology in the non-formal educational environments, contribute that the young acquire technological, creative and pedagogic competencies for the XXI century and boost their professional opportunities in the Digital Culture environment, explained the thesis director of the master student, Dr. Victor Ayala Ramírez.

Obtaining the 2nd place, Marco Antonio became the holder of an economic prize of 80 thousand pesos.