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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.

1. "microtodd" - mailto:todd.davenport@yahoo.com
2. "won the 2015 Verizon Innovative App Challenge" - http://tritechteam.tumblr.com/
3. "2015 Science Fair" - https://www.whitehouse.gov/science-fair
4. "app" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/safe-and-sound-app_n_6723386.html

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