Abdulmelik Pehlić

Abdulmelik Pehlić was born in Velika Kladuša (27.05.1997) but currently resides in Austria where he is pursuing his MSc degree in the field of “Software Engineering and Management” at Technical University Graz. He is an iOS developer by trade.

During his BSc at International Burch University he founded startup called “Whoopedu” with the goal of gamification of education for millenials. Whoopedu is a set of 18 educational games combined into one mobile app which in its essence, serves as a helping tool for parents and teachers with education and raising of the kids, but also serves as a provider of fun moments for kids with different life stories and backgrounds. The app itself is divided into three age groups: toddler, preschooler, gradeschooler each containing 6, with the help of experts and following the school curriculum, specially developed games. App gives huge importance to creativity, interactivity and logic and also provides number of features including voice over and localization, which will hopefully help with the education of the kids with special needs, namely kids with visual impairments, kids with refugee backgrounds and overall, kids with the most need of education.

In very short time, Whoopedu became an attractive start-up, getting recognition both domestically and abroad, winning several competitions including Burch Startup Competition, Start-Me-Up Conference, Social Impact Award and representing Bosnia and Herzegovina at SIA conference in Tbilisi, Georgia and Western Balkan Summit in London where it won high 4th place.