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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 HERMISTONHERALD.COM • A11 NEWS This app is bananas, B.A.N.A.N.A.S programming than most API. We were coming up with ideas to use it for, and we kind of agreed on our first idea.” Theriault said the stu- dents began programming in the second week of school. Though they borrowed code from someone else, they had to learn how it works and figure out how to make it work for their own app. “The code they studied showed how to compare two specific faces,” he said. “They had to rewrite it so it would compare other faces, not just those two.” They connected the app to a small sample of photos, to test if it works. To make the app fully functional, Lemus and Orozco still need to upload the full database. There are currently photos of four missing people on the app now. “It’s still in beta testing,” Theriault said. “They down- loaded photos off of a web- site for missing people in Oregon.” The two only had a month to create the app, between the beginning of the school year and submitting it to the Congressional App competition. Theriault said the stu- dents are members of a quickly growing computer science program. “There’s a lot of inter- est, and it’s a growing pro- By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN STAFF WRITER When two Hermiston High School juniors started their Technology and Web Development class at the beginning of the school year, they wanted to develop their skills and make something useful. A few months later, they’ve created an app that got the attention of U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, and may be of help to a much wider audience. Rogelio Lemus and Ethan Orozco created an app that was selected as the winner of the Congressional App challenge. They created the “B.A.N.A.N.A” (Basic App to Notify Authorities of Non-Authorized Abduc- tions) app, which helps rec- ognize photos uploaded to the app, and tells the user whether the photo matches anything in a statewide data- base for missing people. Walden called the stu- dents to congratulate them on the app, and invited them to a reception in Washing- ton, D.C., which the stu- dents hope to attend. Orozco and Lemus said they came up with the idea for the app pretty quickly. “It had been a while since I coded, so the first week was getting warmed up,” Orozco said. “I really wanted to use API,” Lemus said. API, or STAFF PHOTO BY KATHY ANEY Hermiston High School juniors Rogelio Lemus, right, and Ethan Orozco developed a computer app that won the 2018 Congressional App Challenge for District 2. The app uses facial recognition to find missing people by uploading a photo and comparing it with a national database. application programming interface, is a set of tools and methods for building soft- ware. The students used code created by someone else — a practice their teacher Rob- ert Theriault said is com- mon in programming — and rewrote portions of it to meet their specific needs. “We were looking at a Face API that uses Javas- cript,” Lemus said. “That was more on our level of gram,” he said. “There’s an AP (Advanced Placement) class that feeds into this one, which now has 20 students.” Hermiston has several computer science classes, including intro to computer science, AP computer sci- ence principle, and Technol- ogy and Web Development, as well as an independent study. “When we got to D.C. the first year, we were one of a few public schools that won.” Robert Theriault, Technology teacher Theriault said though he’s had a few students who have entered the app challenge before, he’s found that many schools in eastern Oregon don’t have a computer sci- ence program. “In all fairness, we’ve only had one for two years,” he said. 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