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March 19, 2013

Students Develop Mobile Apps to Help Solve Community Problems

By Shawn Hebert, TMCnet Contributing Writer


Officials at the Verizon (News - Alert) Innovation App Challenge have selected a total of ten teams of middle and high school students as the winners of a national competition to develop mobile applications, which address a need or problem in the students' communities. Each winning team's school will receive a $10,000 Verizon Foundation grant to advance education, while each individual team member gets a Samsung (News - Alert) Galaxy Note 10.1 Android tablet


The competition was designed to help boost student engagement and interest in science, technology, engineering and math – otherwise known as STEM. The students were asked to use their STEM skills to design a real-world mobile app solution to a specific community problem. The selected teams chose to tackle problems ranging from student disabilities to food allergies to local recycling efforts.

The winning teams and their app concepts are:

  • Bronx Academy of Promise, New York City – Quest Math, which helps students increase their speed in basic math computations through a mythology-themed game.
  • Emory H. Markle Intermediate, Hanover, Pa. – Voice Notes, which revolutionizes note-taking for students with disabilities and organizes information to create effective study guides.
  • Friends' Central School, Wynnewood, Pa. – STEAMnet, which is designed to support creative thinking and virtual collaboration, especially outside the standard school day.
  • Forney High School, Forney, Texas – One|Place, which offers students, faculty and the community one location to find details about upcoming school and community events.
  • Hampstead Academy, Hampstead, N.H. – Chow Checker, which easily identifies the ingredients of food products to help individuals with allergies avoid problem foods.
  • Jefferson Township Middle School, Oak Ridge, N.J. – Invase Erase, which identifies invasive plant species that attack the environment and provides solutions to minimize and/or contain them.
  • Rock Canyon High School, Highlands Ranch, Colo. – CaringHands, which increases awareness of global problems and allows the user to donate directly to charities supporting solutions to these issues.
  • South River High School, Edgewater, Md. – Study Buddy, which helps students develop better time-management skills to get assignments done on time.
  • Spalding Catholic High School, Granville, Iowa – AgNote MAX, which makes it easier to track all aspects of farming.
  • STEM Center Middle School, West Fargo, N.D. – Recycling Bin, which encourages members of local communities to increase recycling efforts and reduce the need for landfills.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab will work with the winning teams to help refine their projects. More than 470 student teams from across the country entered the competition.




Edited by Rachel Ramsey


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