You’re at your new school. It’s lunchtime, but you don’t have anyone to sit with. You want to join someone at their table, but you’re not sure if they’re friendly. What do you do? One student’s ________ was to create an app.

Natalie Hampton from California, USA, knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to ________ for a new table at lunch every day. If she sat by herself, she felt ________. But if she asked to join someone and got refused, she felt ________. Then, she decided to create a lunch-planning app to help students like her find people to have lunch with.

The app called Sit With Us is easy to use. If a student is having lunch, they can create an invitation. Other students can open the app and ________ that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to meet. This allows students to make plans ________ instead of face-to-face. This is the reason it works so well: it ________ the risk of being refused, and the embarrassment that goes along with it.

Natalie is pleased with the way people are replying to her app actively—________ those who experience bullying (霸凌). Soon after she made her app ________ to the public, she won an award for it. She also appeared in many news stories.

Natalie was even asked to speak at a United Nations Youth Assembly. In her talk, Natalie wanted people to know that you don’t have to do something big to change lives. Sometimes, a ________ thing—like having a friend to enjoy lunch with—can make all the difference.