Youth-Made Civics App Puts Facts Back Into Politics

MIT's App Inventor collaborators at the Youth Radio Interactive team have just published a beta verision of Run 4 Prez, an App Inventor-created game for the presidential election season. Run 4 Prez is a race-style game where you compete against an opponent to see who gets to the White House first. Get your electoral facts wrong, and your campaign will be left in the dust. Get your facts right, and you'll out-run your competitor for the win! You can get it from the Google Play store here. Youth Radio is a Peabody Award-winning production company where diverse young people learn digital media and technology. Partnering with industry professionals, students produce content and tools that bring youth perspectives to topics of public concern, reaching audiences in the tens of millions. The young people who are a part of Youth Radio Interactive (YRI)--a collaboration with MIT and UC Berkeley--use coding, data-driven storytelling, and design to create online and mobile projects that engage communities in conversation about today's most pressing issues.