The myBivy app won the Best App for Clinicians” award, along with $1,500 in startup money, reports DoDLive.

Tyler and four other college students recently teamed up at a programming competition to create a mobile app to help PTSD symptoms in veterans. Tyler said the team came up with some bad ideas at first – forums and social networks that had already been done. But eventually, they reached out for real inspiration – Tyler’s dad.

Army Sgt. First Class Patrick Skluzacek spent a year in Iraq when his son was in middle school. He came back with PTSD and night terrors.

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