Today’s teenagers grew up with the internet — and now, they’re also building it.
The subsequent era of tech specialists got some advice from nowadays’s execs at the 2019 Student Technology Project Showcase, held on Monday at the School District of Philadelphia’s administrative construction at 440 N. Broad.

The Philly Tech Week 2019 offered by way of Comcast event featured shows from fifth- thru 12th-grade student winners of the district’s April technology truthful, the Philly Technology Exposition and Competition Showcase advancing to the kingdom degree, the PA Media and Design Competition, later this month. They talked with technologists about improving their respective animation, programming, coding, virtual movie, or image design access.

Websites, animations and video games: 5 cool projects from Philly’s scholar tech challenge exhibit 1

“This is an opportunity they by no means had before, and that is getting feedback from experts, giving them a leg up, so that they’re much more likely to achieve success when they get to the national competition,” said Luke Bilger, the district’s senior venture manager. “And also, gaining knowledge of about the one-of-a-kind neighborhood careers in tech which can be right here.”

Six center schools and six excessive faculty projects are shifting on to the kingdom opposition. Here are 5 of our favorites from that night time:

Encouraging healthy eating

Matthew Perlman, a seventh-grade student at Penn Alexander School, programmed a laptop game that encourages students to make healthful eating selections.

The main person navigates a Super Mario-styled map looking to accumulate as many apples as possible, losing existence if they hit a doughnut. It took him approximately a month and a 1/2, which is the first time he made something love it.

“You may be healthful in an amusing way,” Perlman said.

Fighting cyberbullying

Saniyah Parnell and Mayan Pettit, 8th-grade college students at Andrew Hamilton School, created an educational video on preventing cyberbullying and interviewed their instructors, directors, and classmates.

“We hope that we deliver everyone who watches our video … an excellent message on cyberbullying and the way it affects people,” Pettit said.

The video even featured an authentic cyberbullying rap the young ladies created over 21 Savage’s “lots.”

Making tutoring accessible

Jonathan Mathews, Tom Xaviour, and Harrison Findley, 10th graders at George Washington Carver High School of Engineering and Science, showed off their website, Tuber, which they stated is like Uber for tutoring.

Tuber allows schools to create an area where students can get their homework questions fielded using their instructors or accepted friends. Students can take time to table tutoring sessions with either if they want more help.

“We all do a whole lot of extracurricular matters, so it’s tough for us to get assist in particular topics,” Mathews stated.

Sharing a love of music

Caleb Montross, Zayne Holland, and Eynder Reid-Monahon, 8th graders at William M. Meredith Elementary School, created an animation and synched it to original music.

Holland and Reid-Monahan drew the scenes by way of hand and uploaded them into iMovie, wherein it changed into tailor-made to align with Montross’ track.

When asked if he played a device, Montross spoke back humbly: “I dabble in piano.”

Spreading alcohol cognizance

Mercer Buckner, a 12th grader at Northeast High School, designed an internet site to reveal to human beings the results alcohol will have on the body and the ones around you.

The website has more than one tabs from the records of alcohol regulation in America to signs and symptoms a person might have a hassle with it.

“The which means of the mission for me was to help humans apprehend what they’re surely doing,” Buckner said. She changed into stimulated to create the task after human beings she knew struggled with irresponsible alcohol use.

The pupil groups will strengthen to the PA Media and Design Competition at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa. On May 21 and 22. The school district will fund their cost of attending the opposition.