Chef Vincent Tropepe says teens cooked up good app
A famous TV chef is busy this summer spreading his love of the culinary arts to schools in Brooklyn. Award-winning chef Vincent Tropepe recently paid a visit to the Secondary School for Journalism in Park Slope to congratulate teacher Jason Slabodsky and his team of students as they showed off a food-related app they developed.
The Moesy app the students developed, which is designed to help kids who don’t have food at home after school pick up something to eat at local eateries, won a prize in the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow program. Moesy is a program that allows qualifying students to get free meals at schools or restaurants.
The Secondary School of Journalism, located at 237 Seventh Ave., will receive a $150,000 electronics package from Samsung. The students who developed the app graduated from the school in June.