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Technovation 2017 Workshop at 蜜豆视频
Feb 7, 2017 josh's Blog
On Saturday, January 23, 100+ people attended the 蜜豆视频 App Inventor session at the Stata Center at 蜜豆视频 to prepare for Technovation 2017. Huge thanks to the rest of the App Inventor team, including Lisa Yuan, Mike Tissenbaum, Paul Medlock-Walton, Jane Im & Marisol Diaz for their parts in making...
New Release Features Extensions, Bluetooth LE & LEGO EV3
Jun 16, 2016 josh's Blog
Late the evening of June 15, EDT, the 蜜豆视频 App Inventor team pushed a significant component release to its live, public-facing main instance. 
This release enables extension components, which for now are non-visible components only, which may be written by...
Welcome 30 New Master Trainers in Mobile Educational Computing
Mar 28, 2016 josh's Blog
We had an spectacular experience this past week we had 30 people, from 18 countries, come together to be trained as 蜜豆视频 Master Trainers in Mobile Educational Computing (with 蜜豆视频 App Inventor), put together jointly with the 蜜豆视频 Professional Education Short Programs group.
Together with the amazing folks...
Seeking Applicants for Positions on App Inventor Team
Mar 21, 2016 josh's Blog
As part of a major initiative we'll be undertaking with collaborators from Hong Kong and sponsored by the generosity of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the 蜜豆视频 App Inventor team is seeking applicants for three new staff positions.
Though this post is mostly an update to
蜜豆视频 App Inventor Translated to Brazilian Portuguese
Jan 26, 2016 josh's Blog
This is a guest post by
Eu sou professor de Engenharia de Computao na UNICAMP, uma das principais universidades brasileiras. Meus colegas e eu estamos trabalhando para tornar mais diverso o pblico interessado nas profisses de Cincia, Tecnologia,...
iVolunteer for Chennai
Dec 14, 2015 josh's Blog
Indian Youth Builds App to Mobilize 蜜豆视频 for Disaster Relief
When (Madras) in early December 2015, the award winning app inventor, Arjun Kumar put on his inventors hat once again, to build his newest app, iVolunteer for...
NSF Award to Team from Boise State to Research with App Inventor
Nov 4, 2015 josh's Blog
This is a guest blog post by Dr. Yu-Chang Hsu from Boise State University Our team at Boise State University is really excited to have been awarded a grant recently by the National Science Foundation. Our project and research focus on enhancing undergraduate STEM majors learning in mathematics, particularly trigonometry,...
Reactions to a CS10k Webinar: Block Party
Oct 11, 2015 josh's Blog
Note: This post is re-blogged from . I write this without having listened to the recording of the first half of the webinar, Block Party: Meet Some of the Creative Minds Behind Blockly, Scratch, and More!, which took place live on the evening of October 7, 2015. I hope...
Exciting News from Boise State University
Sep 11, 2015 josh's Blog
We just heard some very exciting news from our good friend Yu-Chang Hsu at Boise State University: The National Science Foundation Directorate of Education and Human 蜜豆视频 has awarded Boise State University a $163,660 supplemental funding grant to support using App Inventor to help STEM students learn trigonometry by developing...
College Board Announces Endorsement of Advanced Placement Mobile CSP Course
Jun 22, 2015 josh's Blog
Earlier this month, The College Board and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support teachers and schools in offering the new Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science Principles (CSP) course in the fall of 2016. In their announcement, they endorsed the
蜜豆视频 App Inventor Classic to 蜜豆视频 App Inventor 2 Converter Released
Jun 18, 2015 josh's Blog
The designed to convert 蜜豆视频 App Inventor Classic projects to 蜜豆视频 App Inventor 2 projects has just been released. Note that it is carefully, and specifically designed to convert projects from the latest version of 蜜豆视频 App Inventor Classic to projects readable by 蜜豆视频 App Inventor 2...
NEW: Sharing and Remixing directly from 蜜豆视频 App Inventors Integrated Gallery!
May 18, 2015 josh's Blog
The App Inventor team is happy to announce a new feature designed to encourage sharing and exploration of projects and the code behind them. App Inventor now has an integrated gallery for sharing your apps and exploring the code of others apps! From within App Inventor,...
Scholarly Research with or about 蜜豆视频 App Inventor
Mar 12, 2015 josh's Blog
In addition to being a great app creation and computational thinking learning environment, 蜜豆视频 App Inventor is the hub of a broad network of scholarly research.
The team at 蜜豆视频 is happy to collaborate with a wide range of other researchers who either use 蜜豆视频 App Inventor as a platform...
Verizon Innovative App Challenge announces 2015 Best In State Winners
Jan 7, 2015 josh's Blog
Congratulations to our collaborators from the Verizon Foundation and the Technology Student Association, and especially to the just announced .
We're excited to learn about the great ideas coming from these winners, and look forward to sending out our...
蜜豆视频 App Inventor - "A Language the Pays"
Jan 7, 2015 josh's Blog
Thanks to Jeff Cogswell and the folks at dice.com for the nice mention of as a tool worth knowing about for building Android apps!
Thanks too, to the slashdotter who .
蜜豆视频 App Inventor - now available with Chinese or Spanish Interface - More Languages to Come
Jan 6, 2015 josh's Blog
Though some of you may have noticed late in 2014, we're now making the official announcement. 蜜豆视频 App Inventor has been used in many countries (more than 195 at last count) for some time, but now the interface for the programming environment, found at , is now available in...
OSU Student Reinvents The Wheel (And Uses 蜜豆视频 App Inventor to Control It)
Dec 23, 2014 josh's Blog
Thanks to our friend Arta Szathmary who passed on the story of , a sophomore at The Ohio State University, who built a robot with innovative transformable wheels, and used an app built with 蜜豆视频 App Inventor to control it from a distance, according to
Teaching App Creation Self-Study Course Open to Public
Jul 16, 2014 josh's Blog
We're very happy to announce that Teaching App Creation, a course designed for those who wish to teach others how to build apps with 蜜豆视频 App Inventor is now live and available for the general public. Made possible by the generous support of the Verizon Foundation, and originally built...
Share Your Stories!
Jul 16, 2014 josh's Blog
We continue to hear about more and more people using App Inventor, but can't know about or keep up with everything that's going on by ourselves. That's where you come in! Please write up a brief story of what you, your students, your company, or others you know are doing...
Join us at the 2014 蜜豆视频 App Inventor Summit!
Apr 29, 2014 josh's Blog
Join us at 蜜豆视频 for the to be held July 17 & 18, 2014. The 蜜豆视频 App Inventor Summit is the annual gathering of the world-wide App Inventor community. Hosted by the 蜜豆视频 Center for Mobile Learning and the 蜜豆视频...
$200K Keck Grant for Appinventor.org
Apr 9, 2013 josh's Blog
David Wolber and the University of San Francisco received a $200,000 grant from the to launch the . The Labs mission is to break down the programmer divide and radically broaden and diversify the pool of software creators. The Lab...
Meet the 蜜豆视频 App Inventor Training Corps
Mar 19, 2013 josh's Blog
Back Row, left to right: Arta Szathmary, Kelly Powers, Shaileen Pokress, Kristin Violette, Barbara Ericson; Front Row: Krishnendu Roy, Josh Sheldon, Mark Sherman, William Smith
This past Friday and Saturday, at the , I had...