CRANBERRY TWP — Students at Cardinal Wuerl North Catholic High School have won Best in Nation honors and $20,000 for their idea for an app for car safety called SAFESPEED.

The competition was the 4th annual Verizon Innovative App Challenge.

The idea for SAFESPEED is to increase teen driver safety through notifying parents if their children are driving at unsafe speeds via global positioning system.

Parents can program the app onto their child’s phone. If the child drives over the speed limit for a set amount of time in a particular area, the parents will receive a text alert.

The students recently won the Best in State award for the app idea, inspired by the death of a local high school student last year due to speeding.

The prize money will be put toward turning the idea into a reality and work with developers to create the app.

The high school is one of eight schools in the nation to receive the award.