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Blocks, AI, and Access: App Inventor at the 2026 Blockly Summit
Can blocks serve as powerful abstractions in the era of AI-assisted coding? How can we increase the accessibility of programming for people with disabilities or who may have limited connectivity?
Building Sakhi: Preserving Community Wisdom Through MIT App Inventor
Over the summer, I was volunteering with Maitri, a community that supports first-generation girls and young women from low-income backgrounds as they navigate school, college, and early work. As I spent more time listening to the girls there, I began noticing a pattern...
2026 Global Appathon Winners Announced
2,176 participants from 141 countries and regions joined the Global Appathon to create mobile apps that address real-world challenges through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Open Education Award to Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson has been selected as recipient of a special 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence for his work in open education. The award is presented by Open Education Global (OEGlobal.org) , a worldwide community that seeks to transform education systems everywhere by fostering a movement foregrounding openness in all aspects of education.
2025 Global AI Hackathon Winners announced
Over 1,300 participants from 86 countries and regions used AI tools to develop mobile apps addressing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in a six-week virtual event hosted by MIT RAISE and the App Inventor Foundation.
Rika Suzuki: Japanese University Student Turned Teaching Assistant
Rika Suzuki is spreading the word about App Inventor in Japan by translating the platform into her native language and teaching at the workshop that first gave her the confidence to code. She writes "I am happy to have had the opportunity to learn about App Inventor and will never forget this wonderful experience. MIT App Inventor inspired me to enroll in the Faculty of Information Technology ..."
MIT RAISE's Day of AI curriculum empowers K-12 students to collaborate on local and global challenges using AI.
Day of AI invites students to examine the intersection of AI and various disciplines, such as history, civics, computer science, math, and climate change. With the curriculum available year-round, more than 10,000 educators across 114 countries have brought Day of AI activities to their classrooms and homes.
National Winning App: The Journey of Four Seventh Graders from East Flatbush, Brooklyn
Four middle schoolers realized their dreams of creating a winning mobile app and earning a trip to the nation’s capital. Jayden Mclean, Jayden Byfield, Tristan Hitchins, and Florentz Macguffie (Left to right) won first place in the 2023 Congressional App Challenge for their app “SurVive.”
Chalk Radio: What’s Worth Making? with Prof. Hal Abelson
In this episode, Professor Abelson reminisces about his early experiences in computer science and discusses the importance of computer education for everyone — especially children. Fundamentally, Abelson believes that computer scientists need to confront not only the technical challenges of designing new systems, but also a deeper, humanist question: “What, in fact, is worth making?”
Case Study: Mainstreaming Computational Thinking Education
The CoolThink@JC program initiated by The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust is a nine-year educational initiative which aims to provide computational thinking education to upper primary school students. Its mission is to nurture students’ proactive use of technologies for social good from a young age, and offer equitable access and mainstream computational thinking education in the formal curriculum.
Code Girls United Uses MIT App Inventor to Teach Girls Coding
When Marianne Smith was teaching computer science in 2016 at Flathead Valley Community College, in Kalispell, Mont., the adjunct professor noticed the female students in her class were severely outnumbered. Smith says she believed the disparity was because girls were not being introduced to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in elementary and middle school.
Listen: How AI will Shape the Future of Education with Hal Abelson
CSAIL Professor Hal Abelson has a long history of looking at the importance of Computer Science education and helping shape its future. Listen as he joins Kara Miller in conversation to discuss how AI will shape education moving forward.
AltruBot: A Pocket-Sized College Essay Advisor
Daunted by college applications, 17-year-old Angel Nicole V. Iniego turned to ChatGPT to create an accessible and affordable college essay advisor. AltruBot is an app that generates outlines for college essays. Using MIT App Inventor’s drag-and-drop blocks and ChatBot component, she brought the concept to life in the six weeks she was at MIT.
UNESCO: Shaping the Future of AI Education
From September 4 to 7, 2023, three members of the App Inventor community—Dr. Natalie Lao, Pedro Philippi Araújo, and Daeun Yoo—were invited to share their expertise on AI education at the inaugural UNESCO Digital Learning Week in Paris, France. A reboot of UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week, Digital Learning Week is touted as the “new annual flagship event on digital learning and the transformation of education.”
2023 Teacher Excellence Awards Winners
Seven teachers—hailing from Malaysia, Italy, India, Brazil, and China—were recognized for their innovative use of App Inventor in educational settings. Hosted by the App Inventor Foundation, the Teacher Excellence Awards runs in conjunction with the yearly MIT App Inventor Summer Appathon.
Generative AI with App Inventor at Kanagawa Institute of Technology, Japan
In the training given by team members David Kim and Angie Zhou, students learned the basics of smartphone application development using the latest built-in components that can utilize generative AI, such as ChatBot and ImageBot, to create apps that talk to people or generate pictures from verbal content and more.
Crafting the Building Blocks of Accessible Code
What if I told you that my job is to program a programming language that helps other people learn programming? Sounds meta but it’s true! I work as a software engineer on Google’s Blockly project, which is a free, open-source library for creating block-based programming languages.
Education's New Era in AI: Cultivating Young Innovators ft. MIT App Inventor
The MIT App Inventor is not just a tool; it is a movement that fundamentally disrupts traditional narratives of tech. By offering an intuitive, visual programming environment, it enables everyone—especially children—to develop fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets.
App of the Season Winners Tackle Community Issues with Innovative Apps
Winning submissions address drug overdose, human trafficking, and more using cutting-edge technologies like ChatGPT and IoT. The five winning entries of the inaugural App of the Season competition—AI REI, COMBEE, Avid Reader, Found, and Smart Medicine Dispensing System—developed innovative mobile apps to tackle local issues in their communities.
Students Develop Apps to Support Local Community in Hokota, Japan
High school, university, and graduate students from Hokota, Japan, participated in the first-ever Hokota Wagamama Lab, which challenged participants to create apps using MIT App Inventor to address the needs of their local community.
The Future of Citizen Science is in Apps
Citizen scientists Marine Voskanyan and Jyoti Prajapati say apps, machine learning, and A.I. are the keys to open science communities. They were among a group of nineteen scientists who participated in the Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on Machine Learning in Citizen Science, held in Trieste, Italy last month.
App Inventor Team Leads Citizen Science Workshop in Trieste, Italy
Robert Parks and Angie Zhou from the Education Team lead a week-long workshop at the Joint ICTP-IAEA Advanced School/Workshop on Machine Learning in Citizen Science at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy.
App Inventor Foundation Presents: Isabela Sanchez Taipe
“Before App Inventor, I was a user of technology. I accessed it in internet cafes, and that was it. But afterwards, my mindset changed from user to developer.”
App Inventor Foundation News:
The Creative Destruction of Artificial Intelligence
In September 2022, Mark Friedman represented App Inventor at the International Government Communication Forum (IGCF) in Sharjah, UAE, where he spoke on a panel titled "Creative Destruction…What Did the World Gain?"
App Inventor Foundation News:
Underprivileged youth in Brazil develop intelligent mobile apps
“Before Pode Crer, I saw technology as something just for fun. But after starting the course, I realized that it could be my professional career, my future.”
App Inventor Foundation Presents: Charleen Wang
“Learning new things is very uncomfortable. But once you get used to that feeling, you can learn anything.”
Charleen Wang shares her journey from learning MIT App Inventor at a high school hackathon to working as an SRE at Samsara.
New Book by our YR Media friends
Code for What? Computer Science for Storytelling and Social Justice by Cliff Lee & Lissa Soep
While many of their counterparts were steered toward acquiring digital skills to support the growing tech industry, YR Media youth content creators explored career pathways and the possibility of using code as a justice-driven medium for storytelling.
App Inventor Foundation News:
App Inventor Foundation leads sustainability workshop for high school girls in Mexico
High school girls in Mexico developed a carbon footprint tracking app through a workshop led by the App Inventor Foundation. Since the girls have some exposure to understanding problems surrounding the global climate crisis, the workshop enabled them to use technology to create solutions in the area.
Student-run App-In Club introduces MIT App Inventor to young people
App-In Club is a new student-run coding club with peer-to-peer classes and workshops, competitions, and discussion forums for youth. Founders Tianyi Huang and Aaron Li — two high school coders from California — envision the group as a global meeting spot to share ideas and tech skills around the App Inventor platform.
App Inventor Foundation Presents: Anant Bhaskar Garg
Empowering STEM changemakers in rural India
As a computer science teacher, Anant Bhaskar Garg sees his duty as more than just teaching things like algorithms and data structures. To him, these are merely tools for a larger end goal. His true measure of success is seeing his students become changemakers in their local communities.
MIT App Inventor Director Hal Abelson at MIT News
“Kids are people too!”
Professor Hal Abelson has dedicated his career to making information technology more accessible to all and empowering people — kids, in particular — through computer science.
App Inventor Foundation Presents: Dr. Gresse von Wangenheim
How a Brazilian University Prof Became a Leading CS Educator for Students of All Ages
Designing course curricula may seem daunting in the face of such a diverse range of educational backgrounds, but with a passion for active learning and some help from App Inventor, it’s no match for Dr. Gresse von Wangenheim.
2022 Teacher Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2022 winners of Teacher Excellence Awards!
In conjunction with the 2022 MIT App Inventor Summer Appathon, the App Inventor Foundation hosted the first Teacher Excellence Awards to recognize outstanding teachers who have promoted creativity, technological empowerment, and computational action through App Inventor.
MIT App Inventor at MIT’s FutureMakers program
MIT’s FutureMakers programs help kids get their minds around — and hands on — AI
The FutureMaker's Create-a-Thon had two tracks: an MIT App Inventor & AI track with 30 students, and a Deep Learning track with 45.
Use MIT App Inventor To Create Alexa Skills for Astronauts!
A fantastic new collaboration between Amazon, National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), Mobile CSP and MIT App Inventor. Alexa for Astronauts lets students become virtual crew members as Alexa heads to the Moon on NASA's Artemis I. Learn how to build Alexa skills in a whole new way. Sign up for the virtual space tour and for the new Alexa in Space curriculum.
Appathon 2021 at MIT News
Budding coders create apps aimed at real-world impact
MIT App Inventor’s “Appathon” joins programmers from around the world to imagine a better future and start building it one app at a time.
MIT App Inventor among the 2021 EdTech Top 40!
The EdTech Top 40 represents the edtech products accessed by the most students and educators across the United States via the internet between September 1, 2020 and May 31, 2021. Findings are based on 2m+ students, 250k+ educators, 8600+ edtech products, 2800+ organizations.
App Inventor open job position
MIT App Inventor has an immediate opening for an additional member of our development team. We’re looking for an experienced developer who can join us in the support and evolution of the App Inventor platform, including our new work in conversational AI. This will be a full-time MIT staff position located at MIT in Cambridge, MA. To apply, see the MIT careers announcement at https://hr.mit.edu/careers, job ID 19940.
Earn an MIT App Inventor certificate from MITx!
MIT and edX are collaborating to offer official certificates that demonstrate basic proficiency in creating apps with MIT App Inventor. To earn a certificate one must pass a 90-minute online certification exam developed by the MIT App Inventor team. The cost of the exam is $49 USD. Please click here for more information and to register.
App Inventor Gitanjali Rao named TIME's first-ever Kid of the Year
MIT App Inventor community congratulates Gitanjali Rao for her many achievements and for being named TIME’s first-ever Kid of the Year. We are proud to call you an App Inventor!
Voice of America News Story on MIT App Inventor
Software engineers used to be the only ones who built applications known as apps for a mobile device. That’s no longer the case. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee shows how the free online site is helping people of all ages around the world to create meaningful apps.
Technovation World Summit Update
Will the Technovation World Summit still happen? Yes, the Technovation World Summit will be held online! It will be a 2-day event held on August 13th and 14th, 2020. It will be open to everyone in our community.
Technovation to Host World Summit at MIT August 10-14, 2020
Technovation World Summit will run in conjunction with the MIT App Inventor Summit, August 10-14, 2020, a gathering of the world-wide App Inventor community hosted by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
MIT students will train young Brazilians as app developers via C6 Bank collaboration
YR Media and MIT Challenge Teens to Make Apps. Meet the Winners!
YR Media and MIT Challenge Teens to Make Apps. Meet the Winners!
Hal Abelson on empowering kids through mobile technology
Build an app, change your world with Februarys Creative Computing Challenge
Beginning on Feb. 2 from 10 a.m.-noon, for four weekends. At the see science center in Manchester, NH.
Build an app, change your world with Februarys Creative Computing Challenge
Wellesley Creates encourages students to create an app
ChickTech workshop brings technology know-how, careers to Missoula-area girls
ChickTech workshop brings technology know-how, careers to Missoula-area girls
North Dallas students app selected to represent Rep. Pete Sessions district
North Dallas students app selected to represent Rep. Pete Sessions district
Middle School Teachers Learn About Computer Science
Afterschool Program In Edison Exposes Students to Tech Skills, Careers
Afterschool Program In Edison Exposes Students to Tech Skills, Careers
Adopt a Pollinator for a Pet: 10-Year-Old Invents an App to Save Bees
Adopt a Pollinator for a Pet: 10-Year-Old Invents an App to Save Bees
TeenHack Summer Workshop 2018: 118 Kids & Teenagers Receives A Lifetime Digital Skill & Experience In Abia State
Amazon expands Alexa Fund Fellowship to 18 universities to support voice technology research
Amazon expands Alexa Fund Fellowship to 18 universities to support voice technology research
School girls use technology to make apps tackling low self-esteem in peers
School girls use technology to make apps tackling low self-esteem in peers
Lenovo and NAF Announce 2018 Mobile App Fan Favorite
Middle School Coders Create App To Help With Memory Loss
Capital One Coders gives middle school students a look at software development
Capital One Coders gives middle school students a look at software development
Qatars youngest app developers rewarded at YouthMobile contest
Qatars youngest app developers rewarded at YouthMobile contest
Etobicoke Grade 9 girls win Toronto tech award for best health app
Etobicoke Grade 9 girls win Toronto tech award for best health app
Students find a common language with computer science
Dublin High School Student Coders Develop an App for Schools: Taking Stay on Course from Idea to Reality
Modesto teens develop award-winning app to help homeless population
Modesto teens develop award-winning app to help homeless population
Over 3,000 students in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa learned programming with IT boards initiative
Over 3,000 students in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa learned programming with IT boards initiative
UW joins international competition to mentor girls in tech
William J. Johnston Middle School students develop app
Kuttikootam: About 30,000 Kerala Children To Get Training In App Building
Kuttikootam: About 30,000 Kerala Children To Get Training In App Building
Tech careers in Kentucky: A future emerges after coal
Computer Science Education Week: Going Beyond Code
What MIT Researchers And Coal Miners Are Teaching Each Other About The Future Of Work
What MIT Researchers And Coal Miners Are Teaching Each Other
Coding Creativity Reigns During Computer Science Education Week
Coding Creativity Reigns During Computer Science Education Week
Esquels journey to digitalisation
All-girl teams shine at global tech contest with health care apps
All-girl teams shine at global tech contest with health care apps
HCISD students build mobile apps in computer science program
HCISD students build mobile apps in computer science program
Lenovo Scholar Network Welcomes 68 New Academies Nationwide for the Advancement of STEM Education
Lenovo Scholar Network Welcomes 68 New Academies Nationwide for the Advancement of STEM Education
MassTLC Distinguished Leadership Award will be presented to the MIT App Inventor team
MassTLC Distinguished Leadership Award presented to the MIT App Inventor team
What happens when girls in one of the worlds largest slums start coding and building apps
What happens when girls in one of the worlds largest slums start coding and building apps
Lenovo and NAF Announce 2017 Lenovo Scholar Network Mobile App Development Fan Favorite
Girls Who Code Club Basks in Success of Under My Wing App
SHS girls win second place at U of C Technovation Challenge
Coding Class Prepares Brownsville Students for World of App Design
Coding Class Prepares Brownsville Students for World of App Design
Need to report a pile of litter, or a lost pet? There are apps for that created by Billings girls
Need to report a pile of litter, or a lost pet? There are apps for that created by Billings girls
Caldwell-West Caldwell Elementary Students Present Innovative Projects
Caldwell-West Caldwell Elementary Students Present Innovative Projects
East Palo Alto grade school girls Super World app aims to solve world problems
East Palo Alto grade school girls Super World app aims to solve world problems
An innovation lab by kids, in the middle of a slum
eDebate app design wins Best of State in Verizons app challenge
eDebate app design wins Best of State in Verizons app challenge
GHS Girls Who Code Club Honored by BOE for Winning in Verizons App Challenge
GHS Girls Who Code Club Honored by BOE for Winning in Verizons App Challenge
De Pere Middle School app design wins national competition
NM high schoolers’ winning app teams them up with MIT to tackle local, national issue
NM high schoolers’ winning app teams them up with MIT to tackle local, national issue
Verizon names STEM High app team a Best in Nation winner
Sharon seventh graders win national award for autism app
Student Working on New App to Access Foxborough HS Info
Students’ anti-bullying app is finalist in national competition
Students’ anti-bullying app is finalist in national competition
Capital Ones Jennifer Manry on Girls Finding Their Passion in Tech
Capital Ones Jennifer Manry on Girls Finding Their Passion in Tech
Innovative Meeteetse middle schoolers win Best in Region
’’Technovation 2017’’: Orange Tunisie et Technovation Tunisia soutiennent les jeunes lycennes pour le dveloppement dapplications citoyennes
"Technovation 2017": Orange Tunisia and Technovation Tunisia support young high school students for the development of citizen applications
Paterson students outsmart crime through technology
Google 2017 CS4HS
To promote computer talent training, Google 2017 CS4HS project started
To promote computer talent training, Google 2017 CS4HS project started
Now You Can Make Movies of Living Cells With Your Smartphone!
Now You Can Make Movies of Living Cells With Your Smartphone!
How This 63-Year-Old IIT Alumnus Made It Possible for the Deaf-Blind to Read and Send SMS
How This 63-Year-Old IIT Alumnus Made It Possible for the Deaf-Blind to Read and Send SMS
Boardman Students wins Congressional App Challenge
Capital Ones C1 Coders Program Creates Excitement and Opportunity for STEM Careers
Capital Ones C1 Coders Program Creates Excitement and Opportunity for STEM Careers
Investing in educators to meet the global demand for computer scientists
Investing in educators to meet the global demand for computer scientists
Camp K12 aims to catch entrepreneurs and innovators young
Noida girl’s app for finding book seekers wins Google India’s contest
Noida girl’s app for finding book seekers wins Google India’s contest
Teaching Hong Kong students to embrace computational thinking
Teaching Hong Kong students to embrace computational thinking
Peacebuilding and Literacy through Tech Innovation
Youth-Made Civics App Puts Facts Back Into Politics
Largest Single Lenovo-Hosted Volunteer STEM Event in U.S
Sydney primary school students named Tech Girl Superheroes
The code for success: Campers learn how to program mobile apps at MOHAI
The code for success: Campers learn how to program mobile apps at MOHAI
OPINION: African ’techpreneurs’ key to development
Hutchinson goes live with ’Coding Tour’ in Greenwood
Alunos se preparam para Segunda Mostra de Tecnologia Educacional
Alunos se preparam para Segunda Mostra de Tecnologia Educacional
Take it from Longmont middle-schoolers: You can win the national app contest, too
Take it from Longmont middle-schoolers: You can win the national app contest, too
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Protecting the environment in Senegal? There’s an app for that
Protecting the environment in Senegal? There’s an app for that
Tres estudiantes de 15 aos desarrollaron una aplicacin para denunciar acoso callejero
Three 15 year old students developed an application to denounce street harassment
Tres estudiantes de 15 aos desarrollaron una aplicacin para denunciar acoso callejero
Designing apps without coding using the MIT App Inventor
Everett students publish apps for turtle conservation and healthy eating
Everett students publish apps for turtle conservation and healthy eating
Serian Technation introduces app competition for girls
Teachers back in school, learning how inspire students with high-tech skills
Teachers back in school, learning how inspire students with high-tech skills
Lenovo and NAF Announce 2016 Mobile App Development Fan Favorites
Lenovo and NAF Announce 2016 Mobile App Development Fan Favorites
Chicas en tecnologa ensean a programar un mundo mejor
El prestigioso MIT designa a un profesor sevillano como mentor para el mundo de habla hispana de una aplicacin educativa
Los alumnos se apasionan por aprender cuando inventan apps con su mvil
Los alumnos se apasionan por aprender cuando inventan apps con su mvil
Progetto Nerd, l’informatica roba da ragazze
Project Nerd, information technology is the stuff of girls
MIT program gives NH high school teachers a course in coding
MIT program gives NH high school teachers a course in coding
Newtown Middle School Students Publish An Android App
Kids get Xtreme learning: Camp inspires students in science, tech
Kids get Xtreme learning: Camp inspires students in science, tech
Girls further love for science, math at Tech Trek summer camp
Girls further love for science, math at Tech Trek summer camp
Rochester’s growing options for making your own apps
THS students show off computer science skills at App Expo
Tecnologa para el empoderamiento de la mujer
Este es el talento nacional joven que quiere cambiar el pas... con apps
This is the young national talent that wants to change the country ... with apps
Este es el talento nacional joven que quiere cambiar el pas... con apps
AppInventor Goes Local: adult students build an app inviting islanders to test their knowledge on the local dialect
Lenovo Scholar Network National Competition Winners Announced
Lenovo Scholar Network National Competition Winners Announced
High School Student Hopes New App Will Make Hartford Safer
Grade Six girls from Nth Vancouver create Hike Safe app
The Ross Road elementary students are semifinalists in the $10,000 Technovation Challenge, a competition that asks girls to come up with a mobile app with a business plan for solving a problem in their communities.
App developed by South Fayette students promotes school bus safety
App developed by South Fayette students promotes school bus safety
Identify govt school students too for Code to Learn competition: Smriti Irani to Google team
Identify govt school students too for Code to Learn competition: Smriti Irani to Google team
McKinley High students connect with business owners to solve real world problems
McKinley High students connect with business owners to solve real world problems
Tech company to train girls on mobile app development
Teenage girl coders from Mumbai slum are building apps to solve their problems
Teenage girl coders from Mumbai slum are building apps to solve their problems
Kids across Asia compete in App Jamming Summit to create and code apps of the future
Kids across Asia compete in App Jamming Summit to create and code apps of the future
BHS students’ app wins first place in 2nd Congressional District Contest
BHS students’ app wins first place in 2nd Congressional District Contest
Local students take on task of building app for autistic kids
Local students take on task of building app for autistic kids
Stemettes host two-day hack event for International Womens Day
Stemettes host two-day hack event for International Womens Day
Getting Kids Interested in STEM
Arksansas Gov. Hutchinson’s Radio Column: Congressional App Challenge
Arkansas Gov. Hutchinson’s Radio Column: Congressional App Challenge
Telemundo visits Burnett Middle School in the San Jose Unified School District
Recognised by MIT and Google, this 10th grader is looking to improve school fleet management
Recognised by MIT and Google, this 10th grader is looking to improve school fleet management
Smithfield High School team awarded Best in State for Verizon App challenge
Smithfield High School team awarded Best in State for Verizon App challenge
Review of Learning MIT App Inventor by Walter & Sherrman
I Programmer Review of Learning MIT App Inventor by Walter & Sherrman
App Developed by 10-year-old for Chennai Flood Relief
Computer Programming Grows: Technology Grants Fuel Middle School Opportunities
Computer Programming Grows: Technology Grants Fuel Middle School Opportunities
Stratford School Asks: Too Early to Teach Coding? Never.
K women show GISMO girls theres no magic to learning computer science
K women show GISMO girls theres no magic to learning computer science
Warren Easton Engineering Students Learn How to Program Mobile-Phone Apps
Warren Easton Engineering Students Learn How to Program Mobile-Phone Apps
A Team Of Teen Girls Is Using Code To Change The Way We Think About DUIs
A Team Of Teen Girls Is Using Code To Change The Way We Think About DUIs
Students bring ingenuity and passion to Glendale Unified’s Invention Convention
Students bring ingenuity and passion to Glendale Unified’s Invention Convention
Microsoft and Code.org launch Minecraft tutorial to teach kids how to code
Microsoft and Code.org launch Minecraft tutorial to teach kids how to code
28 Year Old, Black Woman Creates App That Lets You Take Back Text Messages
28 Year Old, Black Woman Creates App That Lets You Take Back Text Messages
A Team Of Teen Girls Is Using Code To Change The Way We Think About DUIs
A Team Of Teen Girls Is Using Code To Change The Way We Think About DUIs
Disaster Mesh: Freshman juggles being student, startup CEO, woman in tech
Disaster Mesh: Freshman juggles being student, startup CEO, woman in tech
MIT Helps Train the Next Generation of App Inventors
Superheroes Summoned to Engage Girls in Science and Technology
Superheroes Summoned to Engage Girls in Science and Technology
Tween Girls Launch Hello Navi, an App Designed to Help Their Blind Classmate
Tween Girls Launch Hello Navi, an App Designed to Help Their Blind Classmate
Local Robotics Team Readies to Participate in Worldwide Challenge
Local Robotics Team Readies to Participate in Worldwide Challenge
Michigan High School Students Host Computer Programming Workshop for Middle School Girls
Michigan High School Students Host Computer Programming Workshop for Middle School Girls
Grant gives North Division students tools to build mobile apps
Grant gives North Division students tools to build mobile apps
High School Students Building Apps with MIT App Inventor
New Courses Deployed by Verizon and Project Lead The Way
Coding empowered these bright kids to create apps to make the world a better place.
Coding empowered these bright kids to create apps to make the world a better place.
Young People Dream of Blending Science and Technology At FIRST
Young People Dream of Blending Science and Technology At FIRST
Youth Radio Releases California Drought Trivia App
High School Girls Can Learn how to Code & Help Local Non-Profits
High School Girls Can Learn how to Code & Help Local Non-Profits
Medford Students Create Mobile Apps with MIT App Inventor Tool
Medford Students Create Mobile Apps with MIT App Inventor Tool
Tyler Technologies Sponsors App Contest to Promote IT Careers for Maines Youth
Tyler Technologies Sponsors App Contest to Promote IT Careers for Maines Youth
STEM Summer Camp at UCSB Puts the Focus on Success for Girls
STEM Summer Camp at UCSB Puts the Focus on Success for Girls
Rowan Computer Science Teaching Android Apps to Middle School Students
Rowan Computer Science Teaching Android Apps to Middle School Students
Inside FIRSTs Scheme to Make Android the Heart of STEM Robotics
Inside FIRSTs Scheme to Make Android the Heart of STEM Robotics
Nigerian Teen Girls’ Waste Disposal App Wins International Development Challenge
Nigerian Teen Girls’ Waste Disposal App Wins International Development Challenge
App Development Summer School Curriculum at Lewis Central Middle School.
App Development Summer School Curriculum at Lewis Central Middle School.
MIT App Inventor Honored with MERLOT Information Technology Classics Award
App Inventor honored with 2015 MERLOT Classics Award
Its exceedingly gratifying to learn that App Inventor has been honored with a 2015 Classics Award, presented by MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) Editorial and Professional Development Services. MERLOTs area editorial boards curate and review works that they designate as Exemplary Online Materials. Each board annually...
EPA Chica Squad Gets Shout-out at Google Made With Code Launch
Technovation Challenge alumnae, the EPA Chica Squad, were selected to be featured “makers” in Google’s Made with Code initiative. The $50M 3-year initiative to encourage creativity and coding by girls was launched in mid-June. The EPA Chica Squad extensively used App Inventor to prototype their mobile...
EPA Chica Squad Gets Shout-out at Google Made With Code Launch
Las Cruces Eighth-Grader Taking Homemade App to MIT Summit
Computer App Programming (CAP) Competition Launched in Hong Kong
Two Teams from Alexandria, VA in Running to Win Verizon Innovative App Challenge
UNH’s EPSCoR program recieves NSF grant
New Hampshire Ecosystem Computing Challenge Receives $750,000 Award from National Science Foundation
To be competitive in the 21st century workplace, high school students today need to acquire strong computational skills and be able to connect and apply academic content to real-world challenges....NSF supports Youth Radio Innovation Lab
NSF supports collaboration between MIT Center for Mobile Learning and Youth Radio to launch new Innovation Lab
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Youth Radio a $1.7 million grant to launch the Youth Radio Innovation Lab, a three-year project that partners underserved young people with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics...MIT’s app building software aids during disaster
Researchers combine powerful new Web standards with the intuitive, graphical MIT App Inventor to aid relief workers with little programming expertise.
Researchers at MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have developed new tools that allow people...
Teens show off App Inventor apps in Technovation World Pitch Competition
Verizon Announces Innovative App Challenge Winners
CSEV receives award from the New Media Consortium for unX
unX offers Online App Inventor course in Portuguese
UK celebrates release of landmark computer science teaching materials for mobile application design
The first teaching materials for mobile application design in the UK computer science curriculum were officially launched last week. Jeremy Scott, principal teacher of computing at George Heriots School in Edinburgh, has produced the materials on secondment to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in partnership with the British Computing Society...
I Will Inspire: Technovation Challenge PSA
UNED Launches Spanish Online Platform for teaching App Inventor + Entrepreneurship
NSF Awards Grant for App Inventor Teaching Project
App Inventor featured on NPR
Motorola Mobility Foundation Announces Empowerment Grant Recipients
Abelson Honored with ACM Educator Award
App Creation Inspires Student Entrepreneurs
UNED, CSEV, Telefnica, Banco Santander and MIT Create the First Ibero-American Community for Digital Entrepreneurship
June 8, 2012 -- Madrid
UNED, the Center for Virtual Higher Education, Telefonica and Banco Santander Learning Services signed a collaboration agreement with the Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to establish a massive open online community in Spain and Latin America. Thus was born the first Ibero-American...