Archmere Academy named one of Best in State winning teams in Verizon Innovative App Challenge
The Auks are looking more and like Silicon Valley entrepreneurs every day.
A team of students from Archmere Academy won “Best in State” in the second Verizon Innovative App Challenge, which tasked students to develop a concept for a mobile application that would solve a problem in their community or school.
The coNextGen app, designed by students, will help families and individuals obtain the whereabouts of loved ones in the event of a natural disaster.
The team was selected from nearly 1,300 submissions nationwide in a highly competitive field.
The team is now eligible for Best in Region Honors, which would earn them a $5,000 grant for the school and virtual coding training from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab development experts. If they win, they would also advance to the national-level competition, which brings a $15,000 grant and tablet computers. Additionally, the MIT Media Lab’s Center for Mobile Learning will provide onsite and virtual training on coding and support to the Best in Nation teams as the teams develop their apps, and Verizon will help bring their apps to the Google Play store. The Best in Nation winners will present their apps in person – on their new tablets – at the 2014 Technology Student Association National Conference in Washington, D.C., this June, courtesy of Verizon.
Click here to watch the students’ video on YouTube or read some of what the team of students has to say here.
Winning Best In State is an honor for these students as they and their app concept now are in the running to win Best In Region and, hopefully, Best In Nation.
Congrats to Archmere Computer Science teacher Jared Campbell & team of students, comprised of Christian Kraft ’15, Gregory McCord ’16, Joseph Spall ’16, Andrew Hurst ’15 and Nicholas McIntyre ’15!
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