“We are trying to find a supplier for the camera,” Fu said. “I'm trying to make it a lot cheaper and a lot easier to put [the camera] in.” 

Fu’s inspiration to create this app was an event that he witnessed on a PCS school bus when he was younger. 

“I've ridden buses since the third grade, and once, I saw a kid almost get run over by someone running the stop arm, so that inspired me to make the trip to school for children a lot safer,” Fu said. “I developed this thing that tries to deter people from running the stop arm.”

Fu aims to use technology to make the world a better place. To create this app, he has relied on the help of his family and the internet. 

“I hope it makes Pitt County Schools safer, better for students, better for administrators [and] easier to enforce the law,” Fu said. 

With that being said, Fu has hit a couple of bumps in the road while designing and finding a manufacturer for his stop arm camera. 

“The current market for stop arm cameras is pretty brutal,” Fu said. “There’s a lot of grifts, and we are trying to put safety before profits, trying to make it more affordable, [and a] more equitable stop arm camera.”

Thus far, Fu has pitched his idea to the Greenville Youth Council, PCS Board of Education, Greenville City Council, the Department of Transportation and the United States House of Representatives. 

Fu hopes to create more apps in the future. But for right now, he looks forward to what the future of his bus safety app and stop arm camera holds.

“I hope to scale it up [and] try to get it on as many school buses as possible because I think it's a human right to be able to get to school safely, so I want to try to make it as successful as possible,” Fu said.

To learn more about this bus safety app, visit nolyn.co.