Hawker College might soon become a regular search item on iTunes after a student submitted a self-designed school app to the website.
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Year 11 student Josh Luongo is awaiting approval from Apple developers to have his ''Hawker College'' app made available for free downloading by his peers.
The program allows students to upload timetables, alerts and events from the school's website and Twitter feed as well as add school events to their iPhone calendars.
A separate section provides easy access to ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies documents such as course guides and plagiarism policies.
And in a particularly exciting feature for the school, teachers can develop unique QR Codes (similar to a barcode) which students can scan with their mobile phones to upload information about selected class events and activities.
Josh, 16, has wanted to build an app from the moment he got his first iPhone three years ago but decided to take the plunge after getting frustrated with the school's current use of QR Codes for roll call.
''In mathematics we have a couple of iPads sitting on the desk and we have to scan our student QR Codes to check in and out of class,'' he said.
''It was really annoying having to find my code at the end of a lesson when we'd already packed up our books, so I developed an app that has the ability to put the code into the iPad without having to scan anything.''
Josh presented his app at a school assembly a few weeks ago and is now being praised as a ''genius'' by his peers.
But despite acknowledging that he is the school's ''residential tech guru'', he admits the project wasn't exactly a breeze.
It took him five weeks of online tutorials to learn Apple's software programming language and he spent six hours a day writing, testing and modifying the program.
Josh has submitted his app to Apple producers and is hoping to gain approval for its distribution by the end of the week.