HOLLIS – Jeremy Ide, a junior at Hollis Brookline High School, won a $10,000 scholarship in January by finishing second in a contest with a smartphone app he created.

The app, called Wake Up With Friends, creates a competition among friends to see who can be the first to wake up and get moving in the morning.

Ide said the HBHS robotics teacher, Sue Hay, provided information about the Samsung Mobile App contest last spring, and his parents encouraged him to enter.

“Sometimes I have trouble waking up in the morning, and I wanted to find a way that I’d be motivated to wake up,” Ide said. “I talked to some friends about it, and they gave me input and ideas.”

Wake Up With Friends is essentially a social alarm clock, turning the dreaded morning wake-up time into a fun challenge.

“It is a game you play with friends to see who can turn (the alarm) off fastest after it goes off,” Ide said. “You can poke your friends if they haven’t gotten up. If you still don’t get up, it will automatically post to Facebook or Twitter that you have slept in, so there’s social pressure to wake up.”

To prevent snoozing, users can’t just press a button to turn off the alarm; they must shake the phone vigorously for at least 10 seconds to prove they’re awake. Merely turning the alarm off without shaking the phone will register as still being asleep.

“It’ll sense that you are shaking it and turn the alarm off,” Ide said. “It kind of gets you moving.”

Points are scored based on how quickly the user gets up: five points for being the first to turn off the alarm, three points for the second to wake up and one point for the third person up. The alarms need not be set for the same time for the game to work.

The app tracks wake-up points for members of the group and how many times each person has been poked. Participants can view statistics for their entire group, including how many embarrassing statuses have been posted. They can invite other friends to join the competition via Facebook and other social media.

Ide said he anticipates high school and college students will be the main potential customers for Wake Up With Friends.

In addition to coming up with his idea for a social alarm clock, Ide had to complete a multiple-page entry form discussing topics such as what the app will do, how it’s unique, who the target audience is and how he came up with the name.

Contest entries were submitted in late June, and winners were notified in December.

The top three finalists were invited on an expenses-paid trip to the Consumer Electronics Show from Jan. 7-9 in Las Vegas. Ide was accompanied by his father, Matthew Ide.

Ide said he enjoyed seeing lots of cool gadgets and new technology at the show, which is called the largest electronics trade show in the United States.

The grand prize winner was Jeffrey Hong, of Carrollton, Texas, who developed an app that allows a smartphone to function like a dashboard camera. He was awarded a $20,000 scholarship, and his Dash’corder app will be marketed by Samsung.

Although Wake Up With Friends won’t be marketed through Samsung, Ide said he’s in the process of completing development and obtaining a copyright so his app can be sold to the public.