Carencro High students enter national app competition

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December 3, 2014
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More than two dozen Carencro High students will spend the next few months working on the forefront of technology.

Carencro High’s Academy of Information Technology was selected as one of 10 schools across the country to participate in the Lenovo Scholar Network. The program is a partnership between Lenovo, a technology and computing company, and the National Academy Foundation.

Because of the selection, approximately 28 juniors at Carencro High will participate in a project-based competition where they will design and develop a mobile app, as well as a business plan for putting the app on the market for public use.

Claire Trouard, director of the Carencro academy, said the school received several laptops and tablets on Tuesday to use in the project.

“Just to be asked to participate is an honor,” Trouard said. “To be selected as one of 10 schools from across the country is really tremendous in and of itself.”

Joel Hilbun, co-director of the academy, said students will use the laptops to code the apps, and will use the donated Android tablets to test the apps.

“We will spend a few weeks learning AppInventor, a free online programming environment for creating Android apps,” Hilbun said via email. “We’ll then go through a process of imagining, prototyping, coding and debugging apps. We’ll then take the best projects and submit them into the national app competition.”

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