Arlington High Sophomore Wins National App Contest
Joseph Romano has received a $20,000 scholarship from Samsung Mobile.
Arlington High sophomore Joseph Romano has won Samsung Mobile’s national app contest. For his app, Better4All, Romano received the grand prize, a $20,000 scholarship, from Samsung, the cell phone company announced Friday. Better4All is “a crowd-sourced service which allows users within a specific region to report and respond to volunteer opportunities within three main categories: road hazards, off-road issues and volunteer positions,” according to a Samsung press release. Romano developed the app last summer at Samsung’s 2012 Mobile Application Boot Camps, where he competed against more than 120 other high school students from across the country. “The goal for the Samsung Mobile Application Boot Camps is to inspire a new generation of …
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Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III
3:25 pm on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Congratulations Joseph! We need more participants in engineering contests like this one. More engineers means better career choices than asking the question, "Would you like fries with that?" Reverend E. Raleigh Pimperton III more ›