Chaney students create app after school

YOUNGSTOWN

Fourteen Chaney High School students spent time after school this year creating an app.

The program, called Chaney Code Academy and funded by the PNC Foundation, the Burton D. Morgan Foundation, the Young Philanthropists Fund of the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley and First Place Bank Community Foundation, introduced students to computer coding and starting a business.

Junior Achievement of Mahoning Valley and the Youngstown Business Incubator implemented the program.

“We learned how to code a computer program,” said junior De’Ondre Walker.

Breona Taylor, a senior, explained they created a game, using a variety of computer languages, that can be accessed on any computer or smartphone.

“It’s rock-paper-scissors,” she said.

It can be accessed at chaneycode.com.

Read more about the project in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.