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