Courses, Workshops, Events
A sampling of App Inventor happenings...
App Inventor Summit @ MIT
July 17 -18, 2013
The MIT Center for Mobile Learning hosted a 2-day summit focused on App Inventor. Participants included developers, educators, researchers, and others from the App Inventor community.
CS4HS App Inventor Online Course at College of St. Scholastica
July 1 - Aug. 16, 2013
With a grant from Google's CS4HS program, the College of St. Scholastica offered a free online workshop in July 2013, helping teachers learn how to incorporate MIT App Inventor in their curriculum. Chery Takkunen in the School of Education and Jennifer Rosato in the Computer Science Department.
Mobile Computer Science Principles
July - August 2013
Trinity College, in partnership with the Hartford Public School System, the Connecticut Chapter of the Computer Science Teachers Association, and other Hartford area high schools, will train approximately 30 Connecticut high school teachers to teach computing courses in Connecticut high schools that currently do not teach computer science. The course will be based on a mobile Computer Science Principles curriculum, Mobile CSP, which uses the new mobile computing language, App Inventor for Android, to provide a rigorous, programming-based introduction to computational thinking.
Black Girls Code Mobile App Bootcamps
August 2013
Black Girls Code is running several workshops around the country using MIT App Inventor. The curriculum used is based on Mobile Entrepreneurship. The Oakland class will get to go to Facebook for a App hackathon!
unX Online MOOC offers App Inventor course on Mobile Entrepreneurship in Spanish
unX is the first MOOC to offer a Spanish course in mobile app development using App Inventor. The course focuses on helping young people develop entrepreneurial ideas with technology.
UMass Lowell Deep Dive into App Inventor (CS4HS)
July 24-16, 2013
Under a CS4HS Google grant, University of Massachusetts Lowell CS professor Fred Martin and his staff held a three-day "Deep Dive into App Inventor" for middle and high school educators. The focus of the workshop was to develop approaches for including App Inventor in grades 6-12 computer science, technology, mathematics, or science curriculum.
Online App Inventor course in Portuguese
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.
BATEC Summer Institute App Inventor Mobile Programming
August 5-9, 2013
The Broadening Advanced Technological Educational Connections (BATEC) National Summer Institute provides no cost, intensive, week-long “Train the Trainer” professional development opportunities in emerging technologies to current faculty of high schools, community colleges, and universities. This hands-on App Inventor workshop enables participants to explore curricular modules that use mobile app programming to teach Computer Science principles and mobile computing design concepts.
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In August 2013, teachers gathered at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center for an App Inventor Boot Camp: a 4 day workshop geared on teaching teachers about App Inventor and computational thinking. In this hands-on workshop, educators built their own apps and explored how to integrate app programming and computer science principles into their curricula in computing, technology, science, and math classes. 
The URBAN TxT (urban Teens eXploring Technology) program seeks inner-city south L.A. students from 7th to 11th grade with an interest in technology and exploring more about. Many of these kids have parents who didn't attend college or even graduate high school. The URBAN TxT program has been incredibly successful. Each of the 15-week summer terms start with an intensive course in team and leadership building.
During Summer of 2013 thousands of young Chicagoans will continue learning while school is out, thanks to the Chicago Summer of Learning initiative, which will focus learning activities around science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. The City of Chicago teamed up with the MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla to be the first city to pilot a citywide digital “badge” system that visually represents and rewards students’ achievements. These badges are earned by completing activities in various pathways available from the Chicago Summer of Learning hub site. App Invention using App Inventor is one of these pathways.In the News
Teens show off App Inventor apps in Technovation World Pitch Competition
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 Technovation site to read about the amazing apps built this year and to view the winning pitch.
Verizon Announces Innovative App Challenge Winners
Congratulations to 2013 Verizon Innovative App Challenge Winners! The MIT 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.
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CSEV receives award from the New Media Consortium for unX
Centro Superior para la Enseñanza Virtual (CSEV), our partner in the unX initiative, has been awarded the 2013 NMC Center of Excellence Award.
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 and with a grant from Education Scotland.
I Will Inspire: Technovation Challenge PSA
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 12-week Technovation Challenge program. Enrollment information is online at www.technovationchallenge.org.