Diana Hrisovescu & Shay McDonnell
Develop Script, which aims to enable multilingual digital access to social welfare resources. Read more
Diana and Shay are using their fellowship grant to develop Script. Script aims to enable a greater number of individuals to access social welfare resources and entitlements. It will help immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, and minority groups access government support digitally, on a user-friendly platform, and in their native language.
Diana moved to Ireland from Romania aged 14. She learned English in only three months to help her brother access medical support.
Diana taught herself web development by building websites from the ground up and has taught children aged 7-18 how to code via the CoderDojo community. She is also a member of Teen-Turn, an organization aiming to provide teen girls with hands-on STEM experience.
She now attends Trinity College Dublin, where she studies Computer Science with Business.
Shay also attends Trinity College Dublin, studying Computer Science with Linguistics. He began programming aged 13 and, by leveraging online resources, gained experience developing various Android mobile apps, games, and websites. He joined Script as co-founder and lead technical engineer in April 2022.
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Develop Script, which aims to enable multilingual digital access to social welfare resources.