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Meet Hamish, youngest entrepreneur at GES

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Hyderabad , 28 Nov 2017

He is just 13 but is the centre of attraction among 1,500 delegates at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which began here on Tuesday,Hamish Finlayson, the youngest entrepreneur is an app developer from Australia. He is autistic but this has not prevented him from developing five apps including an app to help those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).He has come out with an app TripleT&ASD. "It has day-to-day tips to help those with autism and also for the other people to know about the disorder," the boy told IANS.The Class 7 student from Queensland is passionate about the need to protect environment and has already developed four apps on environment.LitterbugSmash was his first app which he developed when he was just 10-years-old. A multi-media, multi-channel educational tool, it is a game and fundraising initiative designed to protect oceans and save turtles.He is currently working on a sixth app which is a virtual reality game aimed at teaching children and adults with autism life and social skills to make their life easier.For Hamish, this is his second GES. He had participated in the 2016 event held in Silicon Valley.

"In Hyderabad, I want to learn about virtual reality and talk to people to know about the skills," he said.Happy to be in India, he is also keen to learn about the country, entrepreneurs and the eco-system here.Hamish's father Green Finlayson told IAasimhan and other senior officials. The 30 km-long stretch from Nagole to Miyapur has 24 stations covering several busy clusters and city landmarks, including the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Osmania University, Secunderabad Railway Station and major commercial hubs like Begumpet and Ameerpet.This stretch of the largest metro project in the world in Public Private Partnership (PPP) mode will be thrown open for commercial operations from Wednesday.

 

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