 From Santa Clara, California, it's theCUBE, covering Technovation World Pitch Summit 2019, brought to you by SiliconANGLE Media. Now, here's Sonya Tagare. Hi, and welcome to theCUBE. I'm your host, Sonya Tagare, and we're here at Oracle's Ag News Campus in Santa Clara, California, covering Technovation's World Pitch Summit 2019, a pitch competition in which girls from around the world develop mobile apps in order to create positive change in the world. With us today, we have Team Coco from Kazakhstan. Welcome. The members are Dilnaz Kamalova and Malika Buribayeva, Dana Yerlanova, and Lubav Duchenko. Welcome, and congratulations on being finalists. Thank you. So your app is called TECO. Can you tell us more about it? Yes, so TECO is a 3D mobile application which has augmented reality and is connected to the hardware, which is dedicated for the behavioral change of people so that they can become more conscious and friendly. And can you tell us more about how it works? Yes, of course. There is Luba who can explain this. Okay. So our application is about an astronaut who needs to save the planet. So firstly, there is a game in which a person needs to save his or her virtual Earth by solving some ecological problems in it so that he or she will be educated about real life scenarios. Also, we have a step counter which tracks your carbon footprint and encourages people to choose more friendly transportation options. Another way we make real impact is that we connect our application with special trash boxes in our city, all the locations are shown on the map, and coming to these places, user will see a trash box and then throw the garbage and then because he has thrown the garbage, he or she will get some points and her impact will be realized in augmented reality. Yeah. So what impact in society do you hope that this app will help change? Our app is a 3D mobile application and it's a game. That is why gamification and the augmented reality, which is AR, which is inside this game, is more visually and psychologically attractive to people and those challenges that we provide in a game are incentivized so that most of the people, when they accomplish their goals, they might have a certain profit out of it so that they can become more eco-friendly and gain benefits. This is how we want to make sure that people might change their behavior for the sake of ecology. That's awesome. So you're using essentially a game to incentivize people to make better choices in their everyday lives. That's great. And so how did you come up with this idea? So Malika, will you explain this? Actually, there were before some eco-trash boxes in our school because the thing of ecological problems and recycling is one of the most talked about topics in Kazakhstan nowadays. And in our school, the students tried to make these eco-trash boxes but they were always empty because students wasn't incentivized to recycle the garbage and we tested our app in our school and we already launched it in our school and these apps incentivize our students and now these eco-trash boxes with our hardware are always full. So, yeah. That's awesome. So you already found some success with your app. Thank you. Do you think that this is a problem in the bigger community? Maybe Donna can tell. So we think that we started locally but we got to go globally. We think that eco-pollution, like pollution are global problem and we're trying to solve all over the world. So in our game, we have the whole world that you become an astronaut. So you should be aware for whole the problem that was happening in the earth. So we are trying to engage and educate people to be more global and to be more responsible for our planet and for our home. It sounds like everyone in the world should download that app. Yes. Do you hope to expand if you get the funding? Yes. We plan to expand not only in our country, Kazakhstan, and only locally but also globally and we would like to create the eco-friendly community across Central Asia since we want to make sure that eco-consciousness is global in our area. And what struggles have you faced trying to create this app? Probably there were some struggles and of course in the realization and the realization of technical part of this project and creating a business model since we are not very experienced in this kind of things. But since we have participated in the technology and we were immersed in this process and we were modified to motivate it, yeah. And we were motivated to learn all these things and acquire those skills. And this is why we became more experienced in this stuff. So right now, those struggles that we faced before are not longer a problem for us. So yeah, this is what we faced. So Technovation has definitely helped you improve your app. Yes, right. How else has Technovation helped you? Yeah. Probably someone else wants to answer this question. How has Technovation helped you or what skills have you learned from this journey? For example, one of the most important skills I guess is teamwork. Like after we started to work on the one project, we started to listen to each other. Technovation actually helped us to understand the opinions of other people and to understand the problems in our society. We started to dream bigger, to think bigger, wider, kind of that. That's amazing. And also, Technovation helped us to explore new companies, to be more like an open person, to come to the companies, ask about the help and not like be just like see the problems and trying to solve, trying to find a solution and to be the people of the world and be responsible for our planet, for what's happening in our local community and be aware of everything. And so I heard you guys had an amazing week. You went to Uber, you went to some other places. So can you tell us more about your week? You want to tell? So we went to amazing places in a Silicon Valley, in San Francisco, San Jose, and we so liked it, for example, Golden Gate Bridge and also the Alcatraz. So we are so impressed by their architecture, by the people, by the nature and we just expected a lot of and we just got this all the expectations come to the reality. And we hope that that kind of a dream will come true in our future and we're going to work in one of the big companies that were located here and all the universities. So how is it like going to the different tech companies and seeing it in real life? So we visited Uber company and Google Ventures and both we have seen people who work there and we're really impressed and we really like it, yeah. And I think so before like in my childhood, I dreamt to be in Silicon Valley, to go there and like meet people who are already working it and now like my dream came true. That's awesome and you get to see California and you might be able to win today. Maybe. So thank you so much for being on. I wish you all the best and I hope you have an amazing pitch tonight. Thank you so much. This has been Team Coco from Kazakhstan. I'm your host, Sonia Tagare. This is theCUBE. Stay tuned for more.