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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. ۶Ƶ App Inventor inspired me to enroll in the Faculty of Information Technology ..."
Jul 9, 2024
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.
May 31, 2024
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.”
May 31, 2024
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?”
May 20, 2024
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.
May 10, 2024
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.
Feb 7, 2024
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.
Jan 25, 2024
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 ۶Ƶ App Inventor’s drag-and-drop blocks and ChatBot component, she brought the concept to life in the six weeks she was at ۶Ƶ.
Nov 9, 2023
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.”
Oct 5, 2023
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 ۶Ƶ App Inventor Summer Appathon.
Oct 3, 2023
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.
Sep 6, 2023
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.
Jul 19, 2023
The ۶Ƶ 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.
May 25, 2023
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.
Apr 12, 2023
High school, university, and graduate students from Hokota, Japan, participated in the first-ever Hokota Wagamama Lab, which challenged participants to create apps using ۶Ƶ App Inventor to address the needs of their local community.
Apr 6, 2023
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.
Mar 29, 2023
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.
Mar 22, 2023
“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.”
Mar 16, 2023
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?"
Mar 7, 2023
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.”
Feb 7, 2023
“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 ۶Ƶ App Inventor at a high school hackathon to working as an SRE at Samsara.
Jan 19, 2023
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.
Jan 9, 2023
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.
Nov 30, 2022
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.
Nov 18, 2022
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.
Sep 19, 2022
“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.
Sep 15, 2022
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.
Sep 12, 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 winners of Teacher Excellence Awards!
In conjunction with the 2022 ۶Ƶ 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.
Mar 29, 2022
۶Ƶ’s FutureMakers programs help kids get their minds around — and hands on — AI
The FutureMaker's Create-a-Thon had two tracks: an ۶Ƶ App Inventor & AI track with 30 students, and a Deep Learning track with 45.
Jan 5, 2022
A fantastic new collaboration between Amazon, National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), Mobile CSP and ۶Ƶ 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.
Oct 1, 2021
Budding coders create apps aimed at real-world impact
۶Ƶ App Inventor’s “Appathon” joins programmers from around the world to imagine a better future and start building it one app at a time.
Sep 15, 2021
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.
Aug 2, 2021
۶Ƶ 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 ۶Ƶ staff position located at ۶Ƶ in Cambridge, MA. To apply, see the ۶Ƶ careers announcement at , job ID 19940.
Jan 12, 2021
۶Ƶ and edX are collaborating to offer official certificates that demonstrate basic proficiency in creating apps with ۶Ƶ App Inventor. To earn a certificate one must pass a 90-minute online certification exam developed by the ۶Ƶ App Inventor team. The cost of the exam is $49 USD. Please click here for more information and to register.
Dec 4, 2020
۶Ƶ 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!
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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.
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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.
Jan 22, 2020
Technovation World Summit will run in conjunction with the ۶Ƶ App Inventor Summit, August 10-14, 2020, a gathering of the world-wide App Inventor community hosted by the ۶Ƶ Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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About 30,000 school children in Kerala will get expert training in the mobile app building during the upcoming Christmas vacation.
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If you think computer science education is just learning to write code, think again. See how ۶Ƶ App Inventor is working with people to go beyond code in this great article.
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A chance encounter at the ۶Ƶ between an alum from Kentucky and an ۶Ƶ researcher has led to a unique partnership. Its focused on the future of the work in a part of the country where the coal industry has been hemorrhaging jobs.
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Computational thinking skills and other STEM creativity mark this celebratory week. "Computer science should not be relegated to just one week per year, either. Educator Steven W. Anderson writes on EdTech that choosing Hour of Code projects that can be continued throughout the year is a great way to allow...
Nov 30, 2017
"Making use of App Inventor, an open source software developed by the ۶Ƶ (۶Ƶ), employees at Esquel are trained as app developers. 'We are the first commercial firm to make use of the App Inventor software, a programme initially built to engage school children in coding.' Knowing...
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Lenovo today announced at the 2017 NAF Next Conference this years 2017 Lenovo Scholar Network Fan Favorite mobile app honoree. Following the top five apps announcement of this years national Lenovo Scholar Network mobile app development competition, Lenovo and NAF invited the winning teams from five NAF academies to showcase...
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"Technovation 2017": Orange Tunisia and Technovation Tunisia support young high school students for the development of citizen applications
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To promote computer talent training, Google 2017 CS4HS project started
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۶Ƶ's App Inventor collaborators at the Interactive team have just published a beta verision of Run 4 Prez, an App Inventor-created game for the presidential election season. Run 4 Prez is a race-style game where you compete against an opponent to see who gets to the...
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This is the young national talent that wants to change the country ... with apps
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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.
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Video with Shinjini Das in which she highlights App Inventor as a great tool for getting kids interested in STEM.
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Telemundo visits Burnett Middle School in San Jose to see what they are doing with technology. Students show off the apps they have created with App Inventor.
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The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching MERLOT (www.merlot.org) Announces the 2015 MERLOT Awards for Exemplary Online Learning ۶Ƶ This program recognizes and promotes outstanding peer reviewed online resources designed to enhance teaching and learning. The award is granted to honor the authors and developers of these resources...
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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...
Jul 8, 2014
alumnae, the EPA Chica Squad, were selected to be featured “makers” in Google’s 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...
Jun 18, 2014
A Las Cruces eighth-grade student is a home-town hero as his app is accepted into the ۶Ƶ App Inventor Summit App Contest. Not only is he traveling to the Third Annual ۶Ƶ App Inventor Summit, but the twelve year old, Mustafa Muhyi, also received some nice coverage in the Las...
Jan 31, 2014
Recently, a programming competition for young students called Computer App Programming (CAP) 2014 has been launched in Hong Kong. Using "CAP" as the symbol, CAP 2014 is co-organized by IEEE Hong Kong Section Computer Society Chapter and Hong Kong Association for Computer Education. Its aim is to enhance students' interest...
Jan 27, 2014
Schools Named as Finalist for Nationwide Competition from Fairfax County Mark Twain Middle School and Thomas Jefferson High School among nationwide schools in the running to win Verizon App Challenge. January 24, 2014 LAUREL, MD Eighty-one teams of creative middle and high school students have earned the title Best in...
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Researchers at ۶Ƶs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have developed new tools that allow people...
May 22, 2013
Technovation Challenge 2013 brought teams of high school girls from all over the world to pitch their app ideas and business plans before a panel of judges. This year's challenge encouraged girls to develop an app using App Inventor to solve a problem in their local community. Visit the
Mar 25, 2013
Congratulations to 2013 Verizon Innovative App Challenge Winners! The ۶Ƶ App Inventor team will be sending trainers out to the ten winning schools to help the students use App Inventor to make their app design concepts fully functional.
Mar 15, 2013
Centro Superior para la Enseanza Virtual (CSEV), our partner in the unX initiative, has been awarded the 2013 NMC Center of Excellence Award. Recognized for developing inventive and interactive models to transmit knowledge on online environments through their unX program. The unX program delivers massively open online courses in an...
Jan 19, 2013
FIAP in Brazil is offering a free online App Inventor class in Portuguese! The course is made of 14 short videos that cover everything from configuration to the creation of apps with maps, databases, sensors, etc.
Dec 19, 2012
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...
Nov 16, 2012
Iridescent has released a captivating new public service announcement called "I Will Inspire". The goal of the ad is to encourage more girls to take part in the program. Enrollment information is online at www.technovationchallenge.org.
Oct 30, 2012
The Spanish publication El Pas featured this story about the launch of UNX, a new online platform for teaching entrepreneurship through building mobile apps with App Inventor. ۶Ƶ Center for Mobile Learning is a collaborating partner in this project, along with Spanish partners Universidad Nacional de Educacin a Distancia (UNED),...
Aug 30, 2012
The National Science Foundation TUES program (Transforming Undergraduate Education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has awarded a $565,836 grant to support mobile programming education with App Inventor. The project involves Wellesley College, ۶Ƶ, University of Massachusetts Lowell, and University of San Francisco. The focus of the...
Aug 10, 2012
In a segment aired on NPR on August 3, 2012 in a story about summer technology camps for students. The teacher interviewed in the segment is , who has been teaching App Inventor classes in Georgia for the past two years.
Jul 10, 2012
Motorola Mobility Foundation awarded an Empowerment Grant to the Center for Mobile Learning at the ۶Ƶ Media Lab. The year-long collaboration between ۶Ƶ and the Motorola Mobility Foundation will create a signature curriculum based on App Inventor, a simple tool for building Android applications. It will focus on empowering young...
Jun 21, 2012
CML co-director Hal Abelson, a driving force behind the development of App Inventor, both at Google and ۶Ƶ, has been honored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with the Karl V. Karlstom Outstanding Educator Award for his contributions to computer science education. Abelson is the Class of 1922 Professor...
Jun 21, 2012
A recent article in Education Week details how after-school programs geared toward mobile-app development offer appealing ways to academically engage students in technical and entrepreneurial exercises.
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UNED, the Center for Virtual Higher Education, Telefonica and Banco Santander Learning Services signed a collaboration agreement with the Media Lab at ۶Ƶ (۶Ƶ) to establish a massive open online community in Spain and Latin America. Thus was born the first Ibero-American...