Contest gets kids to use cell phones for school projects

High school students have found that camera-integrated mobile phones are not only good for exchanging e-mail messages and snapshots but also for carrying out their school projects, according to Japan Times.

"A contest sponsored by Vodafone K.K, held for the first time, intended to make high school students think of ways to use their camera-equipped mobile phones for scientific and environmental studies.

The winning team, a six-student group from Horikawa High School in Kyoto received the first prize Monday for their use of mobile phones to study the so-called heat island phenomenon. Students simultaneously measured temperatures at several points of the city and used their mobile phones to send the data to a computer at their school".

emily | 3:12 PM | Cameraphones and School Projects |
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