Building her own app

While other teenagers hang out with friends or play sports after school, Brooke Yoakam goes to business meetings.

Yoakam first began developing a mobile app called Gift Pocket at the age of 12. Now 17, this girl from Ohio, US has finally launched the app.

It allows users to upload gift cards from various businesses and store them all in one place. User can also exchange gift cards. The app is free to download and use.

Yoakam says about 1,000 users have downloaded the app, with 87 percent of them signing up（注冊(cè)）and 45 percent adding at least one gift card to the service.

Yoakam came up with the idea for the app after attending a leadership academy（領(lǐng)導(dǎo)學(xué)院）in sixth grade. She was asked to solve a problem. She realized that she always forgot her gift cards when she went shopping with friends. But since most people have mobile phones, it would be easy to store and use the gift cards from there.

After leaving the academy, Yoakam decided to develop an app that would solve this problem. She won a local business competition and received $2,000（13, 800 yuan） from a company to invest（投資）in her idea. She traveled around after school two or three times a week to work on the app. She even gave up some of her hobbies and activities.

The app has helped her realize her interests. So she hopes to major（主修）in business and technology in college.

1.Yoakam first started _____________ called Gift Pocket when she was 12 years old.

2.Users can_____________ from various businesses and store them all in one place.

3.A company invested $2,000（13, 800 yuan） to her as her reward in _____________.

4.Yoakam had the idea for the app_____________ in sixth grade.

5."I hope to major in business and technology in college in order to_____________," Yoakam said.

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