A SCHOOLBOY is very 'app-y' after winning an iPad for designing an interactive French learning tool which has gone global.

Logan Keenan, seven, from St Michael's Primary in Port Glasgow, is the winner of the first 'Make It Happen' application competition run by investment bank JP Morgan.

His creation, 'Port Francais', helps users with their learning of the language at the touch of a button on their mobile and tablet devices.

Logan came up with the idea and the Make It Happen team worked with him to bring it to life.

It is now available from the Apple Store online and has already been downloaded by people across the UK and in places like the USA, China, Spain, Slovakia and Ireland.

Logan, who is in P3, said: "I came up with the idea because I do French in school and I like learning it.

"I didn't think I was going to win.

"I was shocked but I'm really happy."

Fellow pupils Adam Kerr, six, and Jasmine Paterson, nine, were the runners-up and were presented with certificates and goody bags.

Jasmine came up with 'Fluffy Cloud Spelling' - a fun word game involving clouds, the sky and a variety of different backgrounds.

The P5 pupil said: "It says a word and you then have to spell it out using letters in the clouds."

One of the youngest contestants was Adam, who is in P2, and he came up with the music-inspired gaming app, 'Piano Dogs'.

All St Michael's pupils were invited to come up with app ideas in January and submit their proposals to the Make It Happen engineers, who then had the difficult task of whittling down the 240-plus entries. Callum Watson, from JP Morgan said: "It was a tough job, they had lots of good ideas."

After Logan's 'Port Francais' idea was chosen as the winner he worked with the experts to develop and launch it.

Gillian McLennan, co-creator of Make It Happen, said: "A massive thank you to everyone who took part and hopefully it shows how easy it is to make an app and we will see many more in the future."

St Michael's is one of 15 schools involved in the new project across central Scotland.

Co-creator Alan Torrance said: "We went out with the intention to build one winning application, however, the enthusiasm generated from the kids resulted in us adapting and building a winning application per school."