Crossroads: Disaster inspires Archmere students to develop phone app
News Journal Reports: "It was the sad fact that some 1,800 victims of the November 2013 typhoon reportedly still were missing in the Philippines that led five computer science students at Archmere Academy to design a cellphone app that can help locate loved ones missing following a natural disaster."
'We knew that after many natural disasters that cellphone towers go down,' said junior Andrew Hurst. 'But we decided that using short range blue tooth capability, phones could still talk to each other, and by creating a large enough network and a database available on a Red Cross website, for example, those missing individuals would be able to communicate their safety and whereabouts.'
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'We knew that after many natural disasters that cellphone towers go down,' said junior Andrew Hurst. 'But we decided that using short range blue tooth capability, phones could still talk to each other, and by creating a large enough network and a database available on a Red Cross website, for example, those missing individuals would be able to communicate their safety and whereabouts.'
The app, known as 'coNextGen,' was the Archmere entry into a national competition, the Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The first leg of that challenge was a statewide competition, which the students won here in Delaware."
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Archmere Academy is a private, Catholic, college preparatory co-educational academy,
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
grades 9-12 founded in 1932 by the Norbertine Fathers.
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