Frolic

Role:

Programming Team Lead

Background:

Frolic is a prize-winning app designed to help girls aged 7-12 to get active. It encourages all children to engage in physical activity through a selection of enjoyable and engaging games, helps them choose physical activity when spending time with friends, and supports family engagement. It’s a game to put down!

Designed in collaboration between Carnegie Mellon University and Duquesne University, Frolic uses an evidence-based approach to help girls realize how fun being active can be!

In this project I led a team of three programmers

Awards:

Frolic won first prize in a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a video game that promotes physical activity and weight control

Frameworks and Programming languages:

React Native, JavaScript, MySQL

Frolic is available on the Apple AppStore

From the news:

Pittsburgh Team Wins Shape of Health CompetitionA new game developed by Jessica Hammer of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Melissa Kalarchian of Duquesne University won first prize in a competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create a video game that promotes physical activity and weight control.

How to Get Our Kids to be More Active - Rick Dayton - Omny.fmDr. Jessica Hammer is a professor from Carnegie Mellon University, and Dr. Melissa Kalarchian is the Associate Dean for Research for the School of Nursing at Duquesne University. They collaborated to create an app called Frolic that encourages young girls to be active outside. Rick talked to both of them about how they came up with the idea and how it works.