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Over the summer Anca Hangea (Product Manager) and Oana Iștoc (Web Developer) had been mentoring a team of six high school students through the product and engineering process that Wolfpack Digital uses with its clients. They began by asking \"who is the app for?\" and finished the summer with Grai, a fully working mobile app that helps people with severe dysarthria to communicate.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>This is the third year in a row that a team mentored by Wolfpack Digital has won an award at the DpIT Gala.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fc0bce84377963cc6fa6353fad9182d2d.jpg\" alt=\"The Grai team holding the Academia DpIT 2026 first-place award at the gala in Cluj-Napoca\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What is Academia DpIT?\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Academia DpIT is a free programme run by the Asociația Descoperă-ți pasiunea în IT (DpIT) which was started in Cluj-Napoca 12 years ago. The students work in teams for around 6 months on software projects which have a real use, under the guidance of mentors from IT companies.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>The 2026 edition was the 12th in the programme's history. 134 students from cities across Romania (Cluj-Napoca, Turda, București, Iași, Oradea and Sibiu) attended and built 21 apps. The 18 mentors were drawn from nine companies, including Wolfpack Digital, BMW TechWorks, Bosch România, Hitachi Digital and Accenture România. The total prize pool at the gala was 40,000 lei.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002F4ebcb1e0d656586dfc40f1af1242c514.jpg\" alt=\"Teams and mentors on stage at the Academia DpIT 2026 Gala\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What is Grai, the AI app for people with dysarthria?\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder in which the muscles used for speech become weak or difficult to control, resulting in speech that is slurred or slow and often very difficult to understand. It can occur after a stroke and is also associated with conditions such as ALS and Parkinson's disease.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002F1b4cf9f913b35aa6390d3c46fc9fa640.jpg\" alt=\"A quiz card about unclear speech handed out at the Grai stand\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>Grai is a mobile app that helps people with severe dysarthria to communicate more easily. This is how it works:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Col>\u003Cli>The user speaks to the phone.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>A speech recognition model adapted to dysarthric speech analyses the voice.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>The phone's camera captures lip movements, which Grai uses to help interpret what was said.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003Cli>Grai turns the result into text and reads it aloud in a synthesised voice.\u003C\u002Fli>\u003C\u002Fol>\u003Cp>The students trained their AI models on a dataset of 800 recordings which were collected with the assistance of Tudor Laurian, a young man with dysarthria.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002F9d7bfda33041b092533a81f778f50012.jpg\" alt=\"A Grai team member presenting the app to visitors at the Grai stand\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Ciframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FZtJHX8AHYmM\" title=\"Grai promo video, Academia DpIT 2026\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cem>The Grai team's promo video, presented at Academia DpIT 2026.\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>How six students took Grai from idea to working app\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The summer was very much like an early product project. The students ran their idea past real users, built a brand, put together a marketing and social media plan, learned how to prompt the AI tools, prepared their pitch and spent several days working from the Wolfpack Digital office in Cluj-Napoca. There were plenty of debates and they discarded ideas and started again several times before settling on the version of Grai they presented at the gala.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Ff259b24d51895a075c044a83fb4c38c5.jpg\" alt=\"The six Grai team members at their stand, next to the Wolfpack Digital banner\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch3>The product side, with Anca Hangea\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp>Anca Hangea is a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fthe-role-of-product-managers-in-software-development\" target=\"_blank\">Product Manager\u003C\u002Fa> at Wolfpack Digital. She took the students through the exact same product work that she does with clients every day, from testing the idea with real users all the way through to the final pitch.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cblockquote>\u003Cem>“These teenagers started by asking ‘who needs help?’ and only then ‘what should we build?’. It’s a question many of us forget somewhere between deadlines and deliverables. They debated, started over more than once and never gave up.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cblockquote>Anca Hangea, Product Manager, Wolfpack Digital\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fd167a8fcdb79f2108ca1164640501287.jpg\" alt=\"A Grai team member with a prize wheel at the team stand\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch3>The engineering side, with Oana Iștoc\u003C\u002Fh3>\u003Cp>Oana Iștoc (a Web Developer at the pack) was the one to look after the engineering. She started off by doing some research into which AI coding tools the students could use and she stayed with the team right through until the app was working. One of the team members says Oana was constantly reminding the team that communication is key.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cblockquote>\u003Cem>“The biggest challenge was going from zero to a working MVP. With no prior experience, the team learned to code while also learning to collect data and train models that understand both speech and facial movements. Speech goes through Wav2Vec2 with a KenLM language model. Facial movements are tracked with MediaPipe, and a classifier trained on 800 clips the team recorded and cut themselves reached 90% accuracy on unseen data. We pushed them to think like engineers. The model stays silent when it isn’t confident, and when it does answer it is right 98% of the time. The AI runs as a separate FastAPI service over WebSockets, so the React Native app keeps working even if it goes down. The result is impressive.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cblockquote>Oana Iștoc, Web Developer, Wolfpack Digital\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Ch2>How the Grai summer mirrors the way Wolfpack Digital builds products\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Wolfpack Digital build end to end tech products (product strategy, design and engineering) under one roof and have shipped over 250 products since 2015. The Grai team went through the exact same process as any of Wolfpack Digital's client projects on the scale of a summer.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ctable>\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>Started from a specific group of people and their problem\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fbuilding-great-products-about-product-discovery-benefits\" target=\"_blank\">Product discovery\u003C\u002Fa> before any feature list\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>Tested the idea with real users\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fuser-first-philosophy-the-path-of-your-product-s-success-starts-and-ends-with-user-research\" target=\"_blank\">User validation\u003C\u002Fa> before and during the build\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>Collected 800 recordings with a user to train the models\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Building AI features on data that reflects real users\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>Researched and used AI coding tools to build the app\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fai-native-development\" target=\"_blank\">AI-native delivery\u003C\u002Fa>, with experienced people reviewing the work\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>Built a brand, a social media plan and a pitch\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Go-to-market thinking from the first version\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fdesigning-for-inclusivity-ai-s-role-in-accessibility\" target=\"_blank\">Accessibility\u003C\u002Fa> is also familiar ground for the pack. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fprojects\u002Ftransreport-passenger-assistance\" target=\"_blank\">Passenger Assistance\u003C\u002Fa>, the app Wolfpack Digital built with Transreport for disabled and older travellers, was a finalist in the Inclusivity category at the 2023 Apple Design Awards. In 2024, Wolfpack Digital \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fq2-2024-wrap-up-a-webby-award-a-new-office-and-visionary-projects-at-wolfpack-digital\" target=\"_blank\">won a Webby Award\u003C\u002Fa> in the Responsible AI category for Equality AI.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>Wolfpack Digital's award-winning Academia DpIT teams, 2024 to 2026\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Wolfpack Digital has been a partner of Academia DpIT for many years. In each of the last three editions, a team mentored by Wolfpack Digital has won an award at the DpIT Gala.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ctable>\u003Ctbody>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>2024\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Forbis-the-team-mentored-by-wolfpack-digital-this-summer-won-first-place-in-this-year-s-descopera-i-pasiunea-in-it-academy\" target=\"_blank\">Orbis\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Tracks your carbon footprint\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>First place at DpIT, later the Johnson & Johnson Brilliant STEM Innovation Award at \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fthe-pack-behind-the-planet-celebrating-orbis-their-app-and-our-mentorship-journey\" target=\"_blank\">JA Gen-E Europe 2025 in Athens\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Cristian Vîrciu, Victor Motogna\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>2025\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fblogposts\u002Fq4-2025-wrap-up-a-strong-finish-to-a-busy-year\" target=\"_blank\">Pongo\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Connects pet owners with their vets\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Accesa Prize\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Orsolya Bardi, Daria Dorog, Răzvan Ciuban\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003Ctr>\u003Ctd>2026\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Grai\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Helps people with severe dysarthria communicate\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>First prize\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003Ctd>Anca Hangea, Oana Iștoc\u003C\u002Ftd>\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fe566ce235ec985b7c970a25ef1a6b502.jpg\" alt=\"Close-up of the DpIT Academy 2026 first-place award presented to Team Grai\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>In their own words\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Georgina Lupu Florian, founder and co-CEO of Wolfpack Digital, shared the news on LinkedIn:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cblockquote>\u003Cem>“It’s incredible how much good technology can do, if used wisely and when coming from the right place!”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cblockquote>Georgina Lupu Florian, founder and co-CEO, Wolfpack Digital\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cp>The team behind Grai is Alexia-Ioana Chiriac, Alexandru-Daniel Geapana, Raul-Andrei Mocan, Maria-Mihaela Muntean, David-Alexandru Greab and David-Cristian Popa. Alexia wrote on LinkedIn about what the project taught her:\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cblockquote>\u003Cem>“This project taught me that having a real social impact is very possible if you are ambitious enough and have the right people around you.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cblockquote>Alexia-Ioana Chiriac, Grai team\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002F29d4ac05972132dc646b86cee9150382.jpg\" alt=\"The Grai team on stage with the DpIT Academy 2026 first-place award\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Ch2>What's next for Grai\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>The students want to take Grai further. They have already entered Discovery Awards România 2026, an international competition for assistive solutions for people with disabilities that are already in use. The two best Romanian entries go on to international judging, and the two global winners will be announced on 10 December and presented at the Zero Project Conference in Vienna in February 2027. The team is now waiting for the result of the national round.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>They also plan to enter the Gala de Excelență „10 pentru Cluj”, organised by Cluj-Napoca City Hall in December, which has a category for innovation and IT. Further ahead, they are looking at the next edition of Innovation Labs, a pre-acceleration programme that starts with a 30-hour selection hackathon in Bucharest and continues with ten weeks of mentoring and a Demo Day. Alongside the competitions, they are looking into FIX Cluj, Cluj Startups and Founders Hive for funding and new opportunities.\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cblockquote>\u003Cem>“In the long term, we want to test Grai on more voices and launch it in Romania if we get the chance.”\u003C\u002Fem>\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Cblockquote>Alexandru-Daniel Geapana, Product Manager and Machine Learning & Speech AI Developer, Grai team\u003C\u002Fblockquote>\u003Ch2>Congratulations, Grai team\u003C\u002Fh2>\u003Cp>Congratulations to Alexia, Alexandru, Raul, Maria, David and David, and to Anca and Oana! Thank you to Tudor Laurian for the time and trust he gave the team, and well done to every team that presented this year! Thank you, Academia DpIT, for having the pack back for another edition!\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>\u003Cimg src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002F33d3cea4b9d2afb935653ed039c6b0dd.jpg\" alt=\"Audience members applauding at the Academia DpIT 2026 Gala\">\u003C\u002Fp>\u003Cp>If you have a product idea and want help turning it into a working app, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fcontact\" target=\"_blank\">talk to Wolfpack Digital\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>","grai-wins-first-prize-academia-dpit-2026",[80,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,103],{"style":69,"url":81},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002Fog\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":83,"url":84},"640","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F640\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":86,"url":87},"768","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F768\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":89,"url":90},"1024","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F1024\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":92,"url":93},"1366","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F1366\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":95,"url":96},"1600","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F1600\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":98,"url":99},"1920","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002F1920\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":101,"url":102},"thumb","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002Fthumb\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"style":104,"url":105},"original","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.wolfpack-digital.com\u002Fstore\u002Fblogpost\u002F2130\u002Ffeatured_image\u002Foriginal\u002Fgrai-academia-dpit-2026-cover.webp",{"title":107,"description":108,"keywords":109,"contact_form:title":110,"contact_form:cta":111,"og:site_name":70,"og:type":112,"og:locale":71,"twitter:card":113,"twitter:site":72,"twitter:creator":72,"og:title":107,"twitter:title":107,"og:description":108,"twitter:description":108},"Grai, the team mentored by Wolfpack Digital, wins DpIT 2026","Grai, the team mentored by Wolfpack Digital, won first prize at Academia DpIT 2026 with a mobile AI app that helps people with severe dysarthria communicate.","academia dpit 2026, ai app for dysarthria, app for people with dysarthria, dizartrie, descoperă-ți pasiunea în it, wolfpack digital mentorship, grai app","contact us","send message","article","summary_large_image","7",32,[],"Nov 11, 2026",[119,120,121],"mobile-development","startups","wolfpack-life","Photos of the Grai team at Academia DpIT 2026: presenting the app at their stand, holding the first-place award and in the gala audience","2026-11-11T15:10:33.000Z",null,[126,127,128,129],"Grai, the app for people with severe dysarthria, took first prize at Academia DpIT 2026, out of 21 apps developed by 134 students from all over Romania.","The app uses a speech recognition model which has been trained on dysarthric speech, combined with lip movement analysis from the phone's camera, and then reads the message out in a synthetic voice.","The team was mentored by Anca Hangea (product) and Oana Iștoc (engineering) from Wolfpack Digital and went through the exact same process that Wolfpack Digital uses to build client products.","Wolfpack Digital has mentored three award-winning DpIT teams in three successive years: Orbis (2024), Pongo (2025) and Grai (2026).",[131,134,137,140,143,146,149],{"answer":132,"question":133},"Grai won first prize at the Academia DpIT 2026 Gala, held on 5 November 2026 at Auditorium Maximum in Cluj-Napoca. Grai is a mobile app for people with severe dysarthria, built by six high-school students who were mentored by Anca Hangea and Oana Iștoc from Wolfpack Digital. Thores took second place, Securi-Fi took third, and Parkey won the public prize.","Who won Academia DpIT 2026?",{"answer":135,"question":136},"Grai helps people with severe dysarthria communicate. It analyses the user's speech with a recognition model adapted to dysarthric speech, uses lip movements captured by the phone's camera to help interpret it, then shows the message as text and reads it aloud in a synthesised voice.","What does the Grai app do?",{"answer":138,"question":139},"The Grai team trained its AI models on a dataset of 800 recordings, collected with the help of Tudor Laurian, a young man with dysarthria. Grai combines a speech recognition model adapted to dysarthric speech with lip-movement analysis from the phone's camera.","How was Grai's AI trained?",{"answer":141,"question":142},"Wolfpack Digital mentored the Grai team through Academia DpIT 2026. Product Manager Anca Hangea guided the product work, including branding, user validation, social media and pitching, and Web Developer Oana Iștoc guided the engineering, from choosing AI coding tools to a working app. The students also spent several days working from Wolfpack Digital's office in Cluj-Napoca.","How was Wolfpack Digital involved in Grai?",{"answer":144,"question":145},"Orbis, a carbon footprint app mentored by Wolfpack Digital, won first place at Academia DpIT in 2024. Pongo, an app that connects pet owners with their vets, won the Accesa Prize in 2025, and Grai won first prize in 2026.","Which Academia DpIT teams has Wolfpack Digital mentored?",{"answer":147,"question":148},"The 12th edition of Academia DpIT brought together 134 students from across Romania, who built 21 apps with 18 mentors from nine IT companies. The prizes at the gala added up to 40,000 lei.","How many students took part in Academia DpIT 2026?",{"answer":150,"question":151},"Academia DpIT is a free programme run by the Asociația Descoperă-ți pasiunea în IT, started in Cluj-Napoca 12 years ago. Students spend about six months building software projects in teams, mentored by people from IT companies, and present them at a final gala. 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