Meet Wilson Patton

If you Google Wilson Patton, you’ll see that this 17-year-old is the world record holder for longest time spent on a balance board. But that’s not why we’re mentioning him on the CURE blog.

Wilson has another first that we think is even more impressive; he’s the first person to create a iPhone App whose profits are being donated to heal kids through CUREkids!

A few months ago, Wilson emailed CURE with an idea. He wanted to build an iPhone game and donate the money he earned from the game to help kids through CUREkids. As a software guy, I was intrigued by the concept, and as a part of CURE, I was ecstatic to see such an innovative idea to Do for Kids Who Can’t. The result is Flying Meatballs.

Flying Meatballs

From the Apple iTunes App Store’s description of Flying Meatballs:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flying-meatballs/id476808103?mt=8

Flying Meatballs supports CURE International (http://cure.org) to provide life-changing surgeries to kids in Africa and Latin America. Learn more about CURE and follow the specific kids who are healed because of this app at http://cure.org/flyingmeatballs.

Your flimsy, plastic fork is in danger of being broken by a huge field of flying meatballs in space! Lead your fork for as long as possible through the danger of balled-up, Italian meat to get a high score, and feel good about yourself along the way because you helped a child receive life-changing surgery! Did we mention that the awesome plastic fork you are guiding through space can pick up aliens and then shoot them at meatballs whenever your pronged eating utensil is in peril of a fiery, ground-meat-filled death? Changing an impoverished and disabled child’s life, helping a plastic fork lost in space, destroying flying balls of meat with tiny green aliens… a game just can’t get any better than Flying Meatballs!

Already, Flying Meatballs has donated $112 for life-changing surgeries through CUREkids! You can follow the fundraising progress of Flying Meatballs at Wilson’s personal fundraising page at http://cure.org/my/flyingmeatballs

What about you?

Wilson is 17, and he built an iPhone game to heal kids through CUREkids! What can you do?

Start your own fundraiser for your birthday or your upcoming race, hold a Dance For Kids Who Can’t, or find your own idea to help kids through CUREkids. If you’d like help or have an innovative new idea you’d like to use to partner with CURE, email us!