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Tech giants Facebook and Google are [on / in] competition to attract the [talents / talons] of a 15-year-old app developer. Australian teenager Ben Pasternak [sparked / sparkled] the interest of the companies after he designed an app for a game [calling / called] Impossible Rush. The app has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since [its / it's] launch in October. The addictive game managed to [climb / scramble] higher than Vine and Twitter on the App Store [chats / charts] . Pasternak has been invited by Facebook’s internship department for a [tour / tourism] of the company’s headquarters in California. He is also being [wooed / woofed] by Google, whose vice president has asked him to come to visit its campus. Both companies hope Ben could be one of their [futurity / future] developers.

Mr Pasternak is one [for / of] 450 high-school-aged entrepreneurs accepted on a Google and MIT [sponsored / sponsoring] event called Hack Generation Y. The high-schoolers have been invited from ten countries across [the / a] world. They will [corroborate / collaborate] on a 36-hour project to create a sellable [produce / product] . They will also listen to [featured / featuring] speakers from the technology and hacking [planet / world] . Michael Matias, the organiser of the event, said: "Pasternak is a young entrepreneur and [clarity / clearly] ambitious. He has shown the world that age is just a number." He added that: "Pasternak's iPhone app was [extremity / extremely] impressive and if we were to guess, we would never imagine it was [run / running] by a 15-year-old."