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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:54AM (#162327)

    Sure it's nothing but a vague business plan, but the word "app" was mentioned, so it must be science.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 25 2015, @11:00PM (#162551)

    Building a gadget is NOT Science.
    In the library (Dewey system), Science is in the 500s; what these kids were doing would be in the 600s (Technology aka Applied Science).

    As the First Post mentioned (good post, Fristy), Science provides an answer to a scientific query by using the Scientific Method. [wikipedia.org]

    This demonstrates yet again that most people have no clue what Science is (e.g. "Do you believe in evolution?").

    -- gewg_