smartphone app counts as community service?

Applying to College
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<p>I’ve been working with a team to create a smartphone app that’s designed to help blind people travel in an easier and safer way, and in the process of doing so, we also visited a center for blind people many times in order to understand what exactly they need/want and for feedback. Does this somehow count as community service?</p>

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<p>Yes, it counts as an EC. If you’re volunteering, I’d say you could count it as community service… but it depends on how you spin it.</p>

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<p>Yes. If you aren’t paid. However, even if it were not “community service,” it would still be an extracurricular</p>

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<p>Community service? Eh. EC, certainly.</p>

<p>Do you expect to charge people for purchasing the app?</p>

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<p>probably not, i just want to distribute it to help the visually impaired without charging them, but my team might think differently…</p>

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<p>Why do you care whether it counts as community service? </p>

<p>Do you need community service hours to graduate? If so, the only opinion that matters is the one you get from your school.</p>

<p>If this is about college applications, colleges really don’t care how many community-service hours or projects you’ve done.</p>