18-year-old Thushanthy Thillainathan won the top prize in a national competition, where she designed an app for plumbing company, Pimlico Plumbers.
Thillainathan, who studies BTEC level 3 at Harrow College, beat many students from across the country.
Pimlico Plumbers' founder, Charlie Mullins selected her as the winner and invited her to the head office to present her app. He also presented her with a winner's certificate, tickets to a West End Theatre show, as well as a signed copy of his new book, 'Bog-Standard Business'. They also had lunch together.
Charlie Mullins said, “The entrepreneurship shown by Thushanthy has been of the highest standard. Our aim was to find some of the UK’s finest young talent by setting a real life business challenge. We knew that choosing a winner would be tough but Thustanthy’s application was the one which really stood out. Thushanthy has a bright future ahead of her and we hope the competition has helped to find a star of the future”.
On her win, Thushanthy Thillainathan said, “I really enjoyed this competition and feel very proud to have won. Support from Harrow College has been fantastic and the surprise of being told I had won by Charlie Mullins himself was amazing.”
She has one year left at college. She hopes to go onto university and pursue a career in software engineering.
