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Melinda: the working mother who built a life-saving app

Melinda, from Hungary, is a mother who runs her own business. She's a two-time Google scholar who during her Nanodegree, began building to build BloodDroid, an app that helps people find their nearest blood donation center and sets alerts reminding them to give blood. Each blood donation can save up to three lives so the app has the potential to make a huge impact.

Melinda and her team of fellow scholars pitched the app to the Hungarian National Blood Transfusion Service, and are to release it as a commercially-viable service on Google Play.

“It all seemed impossible for me,” Melinda says, “And now here I am, building an app with amazing guys I met during Udacity scholarships, and having two apps at Google Play,” she says.

"Through Udacity’s simple yet comprehensive classes, I've done projects and gotten valuable feedback that's helped me grow.”

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“Thanks to the program, I was doing what I enjoyed and I was getting help. That helped me stay motivated and focused."

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"This scholarship had a huge impact on me,” she says. “I have discovered that my true passion was teaching, and I couldn't have known that without the community.”

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