Student Develops Gaming App for Charity
2012-05-22 10:48:23 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WEST ORANGE, N.J.—Mohnish Sabhani, a 7th grader at Park Middle School in Scotch Plains, N.J., designed a gaming app for Android devices to benefit Kessler Foundation, a public charity that improves quality of life for people with disabilities.
Sabhani, who has designed computer games and apps since the age of eight, decided to develop an app for charity after his Social Studies teacher gave the class a service learning project. The assignment is designed to help the students become better citizens while also changing the lives of others.
“I chose to work with Kessler Foundation because I recently learned that more than 54 million Americans have a disability,” said Sabhani. “Kessler Foundation works everyday to support their independence and I want to be a part of helping people with disabilities live as normal of a life as possible. I’m hoping that the app will raise money to support research for people with disabilities. It’s important to remember that $5, $10 and even $5 million helps!”
“The Target” is a game of timing as the player tries to get a ball through a series of obstacles to reach the target. The game has easy, medium, and difficult options, with 15 levels within each option. While making a donation to Kessler Foundation is encouraged, “The Target” is free to download and play.
About Kessler Foundation
Kessler Foundation, the largest public charity in the field of disability, conducts rehabilitation research in mobility and cognition that advances the care of people with multiple sclerosis, brain injury, stroke and spinal cord injury. Kessler Foundation is one of six centers in the U.S. to have NIDRR-funded model systems for traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. Kessler Foundation Program Center fosters new approaches to the persistently high rates of unemployment among people disabled by injury or disease. Find us at KesslerFoundation.org and on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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Lauren Scrivo, 973.324.8384, 973.768.6583 - c, [email protected]
Carolann Murphy, 973.324.8382, [email protected]
