Patrick would wake up every night around 3 a.m. as if someone had shocked him with a jolt of electricity. His heart would beat too fast. He would sweat. He would be so awake that it would be hard to get back to sleep. The nighttime panic attacks prevented Patrick from feeling good the next day. He did not do well at work, because he was so tired. “It was a bad, bad phase in my life. Really bad,” Patrick said. Almost 10 years later, Tyler was in a position to help his father. He was about to graduate from a college in Minnesota. Tyler was studying math and computer science. He thought he could make a computer program that might help his father. So he entered a competition in Washington, D.C. He and three other students worked together to solve the problem Tyler’s father, and other U.S. war veterans, were having. People called them “night terrors.” The students had 36 hours to come up with a program. They called it myBivy. That name comes from bivouac, a military term for a safe place to sleep. The application uses a smart watch and a smart phone together. The watch tracks the wearer’s heartbeat. It sends the data to the program on the smart phone.
Title: Young Programmer’s App Helps War Veteran Father Sleep Better
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/sleep_app.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Young Programmers App Helps War Veteran Father Sleep Better' data-article-id='1833'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10875'>Patrick would wake up every night around 3 a.m. as if someone had shocked him with a jolt of electricity.</span> <span data-start-time='10875' data-end-time='14542'>His heart would beat too fast.</span> <span data-start-time='14542' data-end-time='16438'>He would sweat.</span> <span data-start-time='16438' data-end-time='22688'>He would be so awake that it would be hard to get back to sleep.</span> <span data-start-time='22688' data-end-time='30542'>The nighttime panic attacks prevented Patrick from feeling good the next day.</span> <span data-start-time='30542' data-end-time='35917'>He did not do well at work, because he was so tired.</span> <span data-start-time='35917' data-end-time='40146'>“It was a bad, bad phase in my life.</span> <span data-start-time='40146' data-end-time='42833'>Really bad,” Patrick said.</span> <span data-start-time='42833' data-end-time='49979'>Almost 10 years later, Tyler was in a position to help his father.</span> <span data-start-time='49979' data-end-time='54958'>He was about to graduate from a college in Minnesota.</span> <span data-start-time='54958' data-end-time='60167'>Tyler was studying math and computer science.</span> <span data-start-time='60167' data-end-time='65792'>He thought he could make a computer program that might help his father.</span> <span data-start-time='65792' data-end-time='70813'>So he entered a competition in Washington, D.C.</span> <span data-start-time='70813' data-end-time='82021'>He and three other students worked together to solve the problem Tyler’s father, and other U.S. war veterans, were having.</span> <span data-start-time='82021' data-end-time='85729'>People called them “night terrors.”</span> <span data-start-time='85729' data-end-time='91083'>The students had 36 hours to come up with a program.</span> <span data-start-time='91083' data-end-time='93917'>They called it myBivy.</span> <span data-start-time='93917' data-end-time='101854'>That name comes from bivouac, a military term for a safe place to sleep.</span> <span data-start-time='101854' data-end-time='109021'>The application uses a smart watch and a smart phone together.</span> <span data-start-time='109021' data-end-time='113021'>The watch tracks the wearer’s heartbeat.</span> <span data-start-time='113021' data-end-time='117708'>It sends the data to the program on the smart phone.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/sleep_app.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=7075 data-hint-location='70813' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/what_does_veteran_mean.m4a'>What does veteran mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='someone who fought in a war as a soldier, sailor, etc.'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/a_military_police_officer.m4a'><span>a military police officer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/someone_who_lives_in_a_war_torn_country.m4a'><span>someone who lives in a war torn country</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/someone_who_fought_in_a_war_as_a_soldier_sailor_etc.m4a'><span>someone who fought in a war as a soldier, sailor, etc.</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1348/someone_who_died_in_battle.m4a'><span>someone who died in battle</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=7076 data-hint-location='93917' style='display:none;'><div 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