The CS Square pitch competition at the University of New Brunswick took place last week with first place going to No Distrapptions, an app that allows users to eliminate the distraction of message notifications.

By turning on the app, notifications from messages are blocked, and the user has the option to send an automatic response.

“If the user needs to notify someone of their arrival, they can use the app to send an automatic (one time or recurring) message to a specified contact at a specified destination,” Natalia Stakhanova, NB Innovation Research Chair in Cyber Security, said in a release.  

“The app could also limit distraction during activities such as studying and reading.”

Stakhanova said the Computing Science Creative Space (CS Square) is an entrepreneurship centre within the UNB Fredericton Faculty of Computer Science.

Ten teams entered the competition, which was in its second year. Each team was given five minutes to pitch to the panel of three judges: Steven Burns (Bulletproof Solutions); Mike Leblanc (Blue Spurs) and Ali Ghorbani (Ara Labs, Dean of FCS).

Second place resulted in a tie between Tutoregal and Kimun8ty Technologies. The Community Impact award went to Open Good.