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Android App Built By Teens Wins National Science Award

posted by janrinok on Wednesday March 25 2015, @10:07AM   Printer-friendly

microtodd writes:

A team of high schoolers won the 2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge. This culminated in a visit to the White House for the 2015 Science Fair. The app is designed to help teenagers deal with the stress and depression of being a teenager.

I found this story interesting for a lot of reasons. That app development is considered STEM, that app development is so easy that a group of high-schoolers can do it, that app development is so powerful that anyone can make something that may change the world, that mobile apps continue to become all things to all people. It seems that, instead of books, essays, poetry, etc, a mobile app is now the way to connect and reach everyone.

Sometimes I am simply amazed at how in such a short time, the world has become so ubiquitously connected.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by kaszz on Wednesday March 25 2015, @10:52AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday March 25 2015, @10:52AM (#162302) Journal

    the app features a journal for users to express their thoughts and descriptions about different kinds of anxiety and depression and their corresponding symptoms.

    In an email to The Huffington Post, one of the students explained that the idea for the app was in reaction to Fryberg’s actions.

    “The Seattle Times did an article on how he [Fryberg] had been posting his feelings to Twitter for months with no one really listening,” Chloe said. “This sad example of how serious the situation can get really motivated us to create an app that could prevent this kind of thing in the future.”

    So the problem is that no one gave a shit about Fryberg. But once a blood was spilled it was all important. It's so hypocritical. Writing down feelings in a software program won't solve anything where it matters.

    Don't put people in impossible situations or suffer the consequences.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:15AM (#162310)

    No one gives a shit about mE! Pointlessly trolling SN will make me feel good.

    Hey dude. Is that a massive STEM in your pocket or did you get a new phone? Is there an app to Support The Troops? Or like a map with a little arrow that points toward Washington DC so I know which direction to face when I want to worship Bama's Anus ten times a day? Heck, make it twenty times a day. I only need four hours sleep anyway, 'cause Bama's so Damn Awesome just living in the Obamanation is exhilarating. Starbucks will fuel my passion for The 'Merican Way. Can I get one of them unpaid Verizon internships for doing a Web 5.0 Mashup with like Google App Engine or something. No need to pay me, I can eat out the dumpster at McDonalds. No sacrifice is too great for Bama. Sell me into corporate slavery!