DreamYard Prep Students Design New Apps for Smartphones


Healthy Start, Healthy Relationships, Environment Injustice, and Urban farming Apps 

 

DY Prep High School students collaborated with students from The Point, a community development and arts organization in Hunts Point, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum and Iridescent to address local environmental justice issues through designing community education campaigns and related apps for mobile phones. Students worked together throughout July and August, learning design thinking and app design programming.  

 

Funded by the New York Community Trust and the  MacArthur Foundation, the project is part of a city-wide digital learning collaborative called Hive NYC; students will share their app prototypes at Maker Faire NYC, at the Hall of Science this weekend. 

 

The four apps that will be on display are: 

  • Environment Injustice App: Be Your Own Representative.
  • Healthy Start App: An app to help diabetes sufferers access local healthy foods and recipes
  • Urban Farming App: Learn to Grow Your Own Healthy Foods through Urban Gardening
  • Healthy Relationships App: Provides directions to local clinics and fun facts about communities 

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer caught wind of the Environment Injustice App and is meeting with designers later this month!

 

To learn more about the apps, click here: