Nonprofit and Global Tech Leader Encourage STEM Education Among High School Students
(June 13, 2022 – New York, NY and Raleigh, NC) – Lenovo and NAF have announced the winners of the eighth annual Lenovo Scholar Network National Mobile App Development Competition.
The app development program encourages greater interest among high school students from under-invested communities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, while providing them with high-tech skills critical for today’s job market. This year’s Mobile App Development Competition included teams of students from NAF academies across the country who spent months developing applications that will be of service in their classrooms and communities.
During a continued time of uncertainty these young people demonstrated innovation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills, as they adjusted to a third school year that was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This year’s five winning apps are:
- Enloe High School, Academy of Health Sciences, Raleigh, NC
- The app is a comprehensive guide to allergy management and deals largely with three primary components: learning about allergies, logging allergies, and responding to allergies.
- Enloe High School, Academy of Health Sciences, Raleigh, NC
- This all-in-one app is designed to increase the performance of young athletes and helps to keep them on track with their personal goals, stay motivated, and remain informed. A key element is providing nutritional information on meals suited for a sport or physical activity.
- Clarence High School, Academy of Finance, Clarence, NY
- Designed to bring students together from a wide variety of schools in one place to promote educational discussion, while ensuring student safety.
- Clarence High School, Academy of Finance, Clarence, NY
- This app is a simple way to connect users with local Veterans Affairs (VA) sites and quickly direct them to the website and location of health care facilities, pharmacies, benefits, cemeteries, and urgent and emergency care locations.
- Mallard Creek High School, Academy of Engineering, Charlotte, NC
- This app assists users in creating stronger passwords to protect their accounts and educates them on what exactly online users face daily. Our program creates a random password, using a combination of numbers, upper- and lower-case letters, and special characters.
Mobile App Competition Fan Favorite Voting Through July 12th.
The panel of judges this year included top Lenovo executives and employees. The Fan Favorite winner will be announced at this year’s in-person NAF Next conference on July 13th. Click here to view the top 5 and to vote.
Quotes:
“I couldn’t be more proud of the teams who participated and created tremendous apps in this year’s Lenovo Scholar Network Mobile App Development Competition,” said Matt Zielinski, Lenovo EVP, president of International Markets and a member of the NAF Board of Directors. “Every year we see innovation, creativity and real-world applications of smarter technology that benefit communities, and I’m so proud that NAF and Lenovo together are helping develop the next generation of tech leaders.”
“Congratulations to our 2022 Lenovo Scholar Network winning teams and all of our students who submitted apps for this year’s competition,” said Lisa Dughi, NAF CEO. “Year after year, we look forward to the innovations you create and the skills you build throughout the process. NAF would also like to thank Lenovo for their continued partnership and investment in this long-standing project and mobile app competition that provides a platform for our young people to share their ideas, strategies, and final products. We can’t wait to celebrate with you in-person at NAF Next this July!”
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$70 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #159 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 75,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s leading PC player by expanding into new growth areas of infrastructure, mobile, solutions and services. This transformation together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere. To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com,and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.
About NAF
NAF is a national network of education, business, and community leaders who work together to ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready. NAF’s educational design is uniquely comprehensive in its approach to skill development, enabling students of all backgrounds to participate in a meaningful education and gives businesses the opportunity to shape America’s future workforce by transforming the learning environment to integrate STEM infused, career-relevant curricula and work-based learning experiences, including internships.
NAF has grown from one NAF Academy of Finance in New York City to hundreds of academies across the country focusing on growing industries including finance, hospitality & tourism, information technology, engineering, and health sciences; and support programs of study that are aligned with the National Career Clusters Framework.
During the 2021-22 school year, over 120,000 students attended 618 NAF academies across 35 states, plus DC, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. In 2021, NAF academies reported 99% of seniors graduated with 87% of graduates planning to go to college. For more information, please visit: https://naf.org/.
Contacts
Media:
Lenovo
David Hamilton, (919) 908-5153
dhamilton1@lenovo.com
NAF
Courtney Savoia, (201) 407-8513