goappapp.com<\/a>. Parents can also log into the app to view their child\u2019s progress on college prep.<\/p>\n\u201cYou can prepare your whole application, right here,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has all this data \u2014 your test scores, due dates, awards. It\u2019s all in one place, organized.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aldous charges for features that he has to pay for to maintain. That includes a chatbot for essay idea generation, or SAT question prep.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to make sure AI was ethically integrated,\u201d Aldous said.<\/p>\n
Aldous\u2019 path to Harvard may or may not be proof of AppApp\u2019s utility. \u201cI applied on a whim,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t expecting to get in. It\u2019s hard to turn that down.\u201d He intends to study physics and economics at the Ivy League school.<\/p>\n
Aldous has been developing projects throughout his teenage years. As a 14-year-old and student at Colfax K-8, Aldous built a robotic hand and sensing glove. The 3-D printed robot hand mimicked a human hand in real time.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could operate a robot with dexterity, but from far away,\u201d Aldous said.<\/p>\n
That project won Aldous a $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, a national award for science and engineering for middle school students.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been building and encoding things for a while,\u201d Aldous said. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot more robotics and hardware projects, but I try to solve problems I see.\u201d<\/p>\n
During his high school years, Aldous developed a computer-vision system for detecting microplastics, an automated roadside litter collection tool, and a drone that would rapidly deliver Narcan. All projects were completed in his free time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always loved building things,\u201d Aldous said. \u201cWhat I like about AppApp is I actually have resources to reach out to people. To build something with your own hands, it\u2019s fulfilling, and it\u2019s more rewarding when you can apply it to your own life.\u201d<\/p>\n
At Allderdice, Aldous was a class valedictorian, class president, ran the Science Fair Club, and participated in cross country and track and field.<\/p>\n
He is the oldest son of David and Allyson Aldous. His younger siblings are Felicity, 16, Henry, 14 and Clementine, 8.<\/p>\n
Felicity has started to use AppApp for her own college prep, Thomas said.<\/p>\n
He expects to see demand for the tool rise as the season for college applications begins. The Common App, a central platform used by many colleges and universities for students to apply, opens Aug. 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope that AppApp will help many families ease the burden of college applications and ultimately level the playing field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pittsburgh Allderdice graduate believes he\u2019s built a digital platform that will ease the burden of the college…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-255170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}