{"id":8181,"date":"2018-03-16T16:52:30","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8181"},"modified":"2018-03-16T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T16:52:30","slug":"lfu-freshman-creates-vocal-app-to-remind-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8181","title":{"rendered":"LFU Freshman Creates Vocal App to Remind Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180308-lfu-app-developer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8159\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180308-lfu-app-developer.jpg\" alt=\"180308-lfu-app-developer\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180308-lfu-app-developer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180308-lfu-app-developer-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/180308-lfu-app-developer-405x256.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evyn Garcia knows that people sometimes ignore reminders and alarms on mobile devices and computers. Some are too subtle.<\/p>\n<p>So the 15-year-old freshman at Los Fresnos United had an idea for a project for his Computer Programming course taught by David Burlingame.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old son of Erica and Israel Leija, who is a student at the LFU Tech Academy, thought about a better way for people not to ignore reminders about meetings.<\/p>\n<p>He realized people would not ignore verbal warnings on their mobile devices and computers which get louder and louder.<\/p>\n<p>Evyn named the app &#8220;Annoying Alarm&#8221; for one simple reason: &#8220;If you ignore it, the app starts\u00a0raising its voice at you continuously and becomes annoying \u2013 until you press the reset button.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to ignore an app which raises its voice.\u00a0&#8220;It keeps repeating, and the voice gets more and more annoying.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other students also created apps to organize teachers, to cook or other projects. &#8220;I hope I got an &#8216;A&#8217; in my project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Evyn first got an interest in computers in seventh grade, when he used an iPhone to create a movie using pictures which he would move slightly. He would use 10 photos in one second to appear that they were moving, like the way animated cartoons were first made a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Evyn took 500 photos for that first animation project that became a 15-second video. He used the Stop-Motion Studio app to create the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since then, stop-motion animation has become Evyn&#8217;s\u00a0passion. He is interested in a career in that field or as a computer programmer in a government position to help protect the country from hackers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that doesn&#8217;t work out, I hope to become an animator for Pixar.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ronnie Zamora\/LFCISD Evyn Garcia knows that people sometimes ignore reminders and alarms on mobile devices and computers. Some are too subtle. So the 15-year-old freshman at Los Fresnos United had an idea for a project for his Computer Programming course taught by David Burlingame. The 15-year-old son of Erica and Israel Leija, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lfcisd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8182,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8181\/revisions\/8182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}