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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:13AM (#162309)

    Way back in the stone ages when I was a teen we coped with the stress of being a teenager by using drugs and alcohol. I'm glad there are other options for today's youth, but ain't no app gonna beat what's been used for millennia.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:17AM (#162311)

    You forgot unprotected sex and angsty music, you doped-up prude.

    • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:24AM

      by Nuke (3162) on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:24AM (#162315)

      You forgot unprotected sex and angsty music, you doped-up prude.

      Why would someone getting unprotected (or even protected) sex be depressed? I thought the lack or insufficiency of sex was the root of the problem. Was for me. Now I know where all the teenage girls were - in their mom's basements writing apps.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:34AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:34AM (#162321)

        The root of the problem was constantly getting pushed around by adults, parents, teachers, siblings, and peers. Sex doesn't eliminate bullying. Naturally you wouldn't know that, if you were the bully.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2015, @08:47PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 26 2015, @08:47PM (#162947)

        This may come as a surprise to many teenagers but sex doesn't magically solve all problems. Additionally, child sexual abuse is pretty common (~10+% depending on the statistic), so there's a pretty good chance some of those depressed teens have some pretty negative and unhealthy associations with sex.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:25AM (#162316)

      Your swing music has ruined our world! Take your upbeat shenanigans, along with your telegraph, and put 'em back on that train to Doomsville!