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Documentary film-maker Lesley Chilcott teamed up with Google’s Made with Code initiative to premiere a film about a school-girl app building competition on YouTube this weekend. The film, entitled ‘CodeGirl‘ follows the lives of high school girls from diverse backgrounds including rural Moldova, the urban streets of Brazil and the leafy suburbs of Massachusetts, with each group attempting to solve a problem that affects their community by building an app. In Moldova, the girls built Apa Pura, an application that helps locals know more about the quality of water in their neighbourhood. The team even went so far as to test the…

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