It’s a real buddy system.
A group of Long Island ninth graders won a highly competitive contest on making social media less harmful for teens by designing a “buddy bot” AI program to help with digital detoxing.
“It’s something that we’ve all experienced very firsthand,” said Chaminade’s Andrew Runje Dargento, part of the high school’s five-person winning squad.
“I’ve had days where my screen time is terrible — I don’t even want to say the number,” Andrew told The Post. “It’s something that I want to change for myself personally and change for the whole community around us.”
They were recently crowned champions of the “Medical Marvels” competition put on by Northwell’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. It tasked more than 180 LI and New York City students with creating an approach to “lessen the negative impact of social media” on their peers.
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