The new educational app DistractMe was developed for students by Concentr8, a Young Enterprise company made up of eight students from St Aloysius College.

DistractMe is aimed at helping effect change in students' quality of learning and studying. Late last year, the Minister of Education, Evarist Bartolo announced the shocking statistic that 34% of students fail all O levels. Contentr8 created an app, called DistractMe, which is aimed at helping towards improving these statistics.

The app is designed to help turn one of the disadvantages of modern-day technology, that is, that it serves as a constant source of distraction for students while studying, into an advantage. DistractMe is designed to make revision an integral part of students' day-to-day use of their phones, tablets and laptops. In this way they can approach their studies throughout the day via a medium which they are fond of and constantly connected to. As students ourselves we have first-hand experience in understanding how students think and how much of a distraction mobile phones and other similar devices can actually be. 
The app allows the user to test him/her in an innovative way, doing away with the ordinary stresses often associated with studying. It is not intended to replace studying, but to keep the user focused and make studying a more ongoing process.

The app has two options. It allows the user to enter his/her own questions and answers about any subject that he/she is studying for, allowing him/her to be tested and re-tested at a later stage. In this way there is no limit to the criteria about which the student can test him/herself.

Another option is to have the app ask you set questions from particular subjects, relating to the Matsec syllabus. DistractMe allows the user to connect to Facebook in order to compete with friends and find out who best knows “their stuff”.

By introducing studying on a platform important to students and introducing a friendly sense of competition, Concentr8 is promoting studying to be less of a chore and encouraging students to retain their focus.