An app that Smithtown West High grad Kevin Camson built to help students become more engaged in school activities could have helped him too, he says.
In high school, Camson wrote computer code but he skipped clubs like Robotics and Maker Space that might have appealed to his technical interests, and sometimes just went straight home to his room after classes.
“I didn’t always discover the groups I wish I had. … I had good friends but at times I was lonely and a bit lost,” Camson, now 23 and a graduate of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, told Smithtown Central school district leaders in a February presentation that mixed reflection on his school days with tech-bro braggadocio about “the future of ed-tech.”
His app, called MOOV, culls and delivers to smartphones school information from class schedules, lunch menus, teachers’ extra help times and…
