Jake Rolan sat at Starbucks on Thayer Street one day last month, busy on both his laptop and iPhone, seemingly no different from the other students who had carved out an itinerant workspace there, cursing out the wireless network that seemed to fade in and out.

But the curly-haired 16-year-old from Miami, a high-school junior taking economic classes at Brown for the summer, was different: Rolan won the Miami Herald Business Challenge for his iPhone application, which allows the user to create his or her own flash cards for studying and sharing with others. His collaborator is Marika Wei, who does the development and design of the application.

Full Story: Knowledge in a flash Source: The Phoenix, August 12th, 2009 Author: Richard Asinof Added on August 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am, by Matt Mikula