 A group of students at Central Lakes College is heading to the nation's capital to present their project that hopes to help veterans and active members of the military cope with stress. Our A.J. Feldman has more. A group of mobile app development students at CLC is making headlines. I thought it was crazy that, you know, a small Central Lakes college in Braynard, Minnesota got recognized on the national level. That was pretty cool. For the Community College Innovation Challenge, they created an app that can connect veterans with trusted friends and family members with the touch of a button. You can set up an emergency contact to say you're in a dire need of assistance. You're going to have this immediate contact group that when you hit the button, it'll contact those people. The group, comprised of people with various web development skills, will head to Washington in June to present their app to members of Congress. Those that are new to the mobile app development program, then they are testing the graphical user interface because we have veterans in the team. We have active military, so they have different roles. So even though they may not be experts in programming, they can still distill what's going on behind the scenes. It's good to be part of a team because it's not just one person. It's everybody who's involved and, you know, that's helpful, I think. The team has four active or former members of the military making it a personal project for many of them. I personally lost a friend when I was in a unit in Thief River Falls to suicide. And I know when we first heard the news, it was pretty much a group think of what could we have done. Because nobody knew that he was even thinking about things like that. And then the stories like that are just all over the place. The group says that while the competition and the national recognition is nice, that if the app can help just one person, it'll all be worth it. It's nice that we're able to get them the resources that they need and get them the help that they require as just one more pillar to that to that building. Reporting in Brainerd, A.J. Feldman, Lakeland News. The group will participate in an innovation boot camp in Virginia before presenting their app to members of Congress. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.