With the widespread use of smartphones among teens and preteens, the district is finding a number of apps that are a distraction in the classroom and are being used for cyberbullying, sexting, and accessing pornography. Certainly not all popular apps are harmful or dangerous. Many can be used for wholesome purposes, even helping to enhance ...
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Ninth-grader creates app for people with hearing loss
Churchill Jr. High student Aaron McKenney is one of two Utah winners in the Congressional App Challenge. The aim of the Challenge is to encourage students to learn how to code by creating their own applications. Thirty-three states and more than two thousand students participated this year in the Congressional App Challenge. Aaron designed a ...
Wasatch Jr. students’ app wins Best in Region from Verizon
A team of students from Wasatch Jr. High has impressed the nation’s largest wireless telecommunications provider with an app designed to assist new motorists. The Verizon Innovative App Challenge invited middle and high schools to learn about mobile app development and create their own concepts for a potential application. The Wasatch team’s ...