Award-winning texting prevention app came from an unlikely place — teens
Five students from the Presque Isle Regional Career and Technical Center didn’t come home empty handed from the National Leadership and Skills Conference in Louisville, Ky.
The Bangor Daily News reports that students Lauren Graves, Sedona Lucas and Shaye McHatten took home a gold medal for their texting prevention app called Auto-Text, which operates not unlike voice mail for texting.
Auto-Text automatically replies to a received text message while the recipient is driving, telling the sender that the driver is occupied while driving.
“One student focused on the app creation, another student focused on insurance facts and information, while the third student focused on surveys, charts, statistics and putting together the display,” Amy White, a business technology instructor who accompanied the students, told the BDN.
MacKenzie Pelkey, a recent Presque Isle High School graduate, came in 22nd place in a customer service contest at the national conference, while incoming senior Jonathan Henderson placed 10th overall in a T-shirt design contest, according to the BDN.
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