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'Sit With US' Founder, 16 Year Old Founder and and Brand Ambassador

‘Sit With US’ Founder, 16 Year Old Founded, Natalie Hampton Pictured left and and Brand Ambassador is creative huge waves with her new mobile app to take on the challenges of school bullies

A new mobile application is helping students fight bullying and helping bridge friendly bonds among students into the lunchrooms of middle school and high schools across the globe.

The application is called Sit With Us, A mobile application that was established a by a 16 year old highschool student after years of facing abuse from fellow students and peers in the lunchroom at her school.

Natalie Hampton, the creator and brand’s ambassador of ‘Sit With Us’ decided to take action so she reached out to her parents and got to together with some developers to start Sit With US which After going public in September of 2016, has been featured on Good Morning America, NPR News, ABC World News,  and countless major news outlets across the world. Since the application took wave in the Apple’s IOS App store, Sit With us has been received with positive reception serving thousands of schools across the world.

Ms. Hampton’s creation has been helping create a positive influence for many students in schools across the country and beyond, to form friendships and avoid the hardships of being bullied for where you choose to sit at lunch where friendships often start and are initiated in school settings.

The Application’s Process Set Up Like this : Sit With Us serves mobile application that for  students to reach out to their peers and fellow students, and inviting them to their school lunch tables. Through the application student can look at the list of “open lunches” in the mobile application which allows to know that they are have an open  to join with no chance or fear of rejection.

When signing up as an ambassador through Sit With Us, each “Sit With Us ambassadors take a allegiance to welcome anyone who joins and include them in the conversation.

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Natalie Hampton, 16, created the Sit With Us mobile application after experiencing physical, emotional, and cyber bullying in middle school which resulted in changing schools and a new attitude to help tackle this issue on click at a time.

Natalie explained how both teachers and parents can take part of bullying solutions in school by being part to coordinate ‘Sit With Us’ programs, facilitate topic discussions during lunch to bring people together, or organize gatherings that can help build friendships between students.

“My high school places a great deal of emphasis on community service and what it means to be a global citizen, and I think that is why it is generally a kind and welcoming place,” she said. “

As far as the future of the application goes, The busy teen see no stopping in helping push her application to a larger audience; “Right now we’re looking to create an application available in more countries, and eventually open on the android market, for android users to download., ” Hampton said.”

We had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Hampton on her inspiration for the application Sit with Us and find out how all of it works in action:


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