MIT App Inventor

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Congratulations to Robert Parks from MIT App Inventor for receiving a Day of Climate award! 🌍 🎉

Thanks Technology, Giving Back to the Community! Launching this #Thanksgiving, get ready for an AI course like no other! The App-In Club is hosting a fun and hands-on crash course to bring the magic of #AI to everyone. Over three weeks, we’ll explore Computer Vision AI—an amazing tech that allows computers to see and understand images—all while building cool #Apps with MIT App Inventor. 📅 Class Time: December 1–15 (Sundays | 2:00–3:30 PM PST) 🔗 Registration Link: https://lnkd.in/gqgyqiMR 💬 Community Server: discord.gg/app-in-club Here’s what we’ve got planned: - Week 1: Kick things off with an intro to AI, computer vision, and MIT App Inventor. Together, we’ll create an image classifier app that can recognize parts of your Thanksgiving feast and suggest healthy eating habits. - Week 2: Get moving with PoseNet! We’ll build a Jumping Jack Tracker App to count your reps and keep the energy going strong. - Week 3: Bring out your creative side! Use Dall-E to craft custom holiday-themed images and explore the questions about AI ethics and how YOU can shape the future of AI. It’s fun, it’s festive, and it’s all about celebrating technology and giving back to our community. This event marks the third anniversary of the App-In Club Thanksgiving Crash Course, making it an extra special occasion. Don’t miss out—join us and see how AI can make your holidays even more amazing! 🎉

MIT’s Day of Climate has awarded nearly $125K to support innovative, hands-on curricula for young learners and educators worldwide: https://bit.ly/4fVuTQu Aligned with Massachusetts Institute of Technology's presidential priorities, Day of Climate aims to help K-12 learners better understand climate change, its impacts, and potential solutions. “It is inspiring to see how the larger MIT community has come together in response to our invitation to develop interactive, hands-on learning activities,” says Claudia Urrea, Ph.D., sr. assoc. director of MIT pK-12 and director of Day of Climate. The proposals selected for funding come from members of MIT Design and Computation, MIT Edgerton Center, MIT App Inventor, MIT - Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, MIT EECS, and more. Congratulations to the grantees! 🏡 Sandy Curth for "Earth Story: Innovating sustainable housing design" 🎭 Yashasvi Raj for "Climate Change Charades" 🌊 Robert Parks for "Climate Change Happens Below Water" 🪸 Andrew Bennett for "Coastal Climate Science" 🏫 Aisling O'Grady for "MIT Climate Action Through Education" 🌡️ Chris Rabe for "Right Beneath Our Feet: Heating and cooling with geothermal energy networks" ✊🏾 Lelia Hampton for "Empowering Students as Engaged Citizens via Data Activism for Climate Justice" Learn more about their projects: https://bit.ly/4fVuTQu #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #Teaching #Learning #ClimateEducation #OpenEducation #OnlineEducation #OnlineLearning #ClimateJustice #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #Ecosystems #DataScience #Coding #Education

The MIT App Inventor and MIT RAISE teams just wrapped up an exciting week at Dubai Heights Academy in Dubai! 🇦🇪 Over the course of eight sessions, 200 students across middle school and high school learned to: 🐶 Program robot dogs using #MITAppInventor and #Microbit, discussing whether they would replace a real dog with a robot 🌱 Connect mobile apps to physical devices and sensors, collecting data on weather, air pollution, and plant growth 🤖 Play with #ChatGPT and #DallE, creating an app that personifies and talks like specific characters such as Albert Einstein or Marie Curie

The App Inventor Foundation is hiring! We have several exciting roles open in our mission-driven organization: 💻 Software Engineer: we are looking to hire our first Software Engineer to build out a new classroom portal and expand upon App Inventor's accessibility features to make app creation available to users of all backgrounds. 🌱 Development Manager: we are seeking an experienced Development Manager to lead fundraising efforts and help achieve financial sustainability for the App Inventor Foundation. ✍🏼 Communications Associate: we are looking for candidates with strong writing, graphic design, and social media skills to help communicate our ongoing work. This is a temporary contract role with potential for conversion into a longer-term position. The App Inventor Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the mission of empowering individuals of all backgrounds to make apps that improve lives, uplift communities, and change the world. To learn more and apply to our open roles, visit: aif.to/careers

You can now connect MIT App Inventor apps to the physical world with the new #MicroBlocks extension! This extension uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to communicate between an Android mobile device and BLE-capable MicroBlocks boards. Learn how to use it in our new beginner-friendly MicroBlocks Hello Purr tutorial 😸 🔗 Check out the tutorial: https://ow.ly/4jGU50U5vkJ

Our team had a great time at #CSTANE2024 catching up with other teachers, attending workshops, and sharing updates from our team including the new App Inventor Educator Collaborative! In case you missed it: the App Inventor Foundation is launching a new initiative to empower the next generation with critical AI and data science skills using MIT App Inventor. We're offering free curricula and professional development to grade 6-12 teachers based in the US. If you're interested in learning more, sign up here: https://ow.ly/CQIE50U3mo4 📸: Julie York

Tampa Bay folks: check out the second annual Community Tech Day this weekend in St. Petersburg, Florida! Led by Lyra Logan, author of Learn to Program with App Inventor, the event will feature 3D printing, robotics, AI, and more 🤖 https://lnkd.in/gJPBTfbN

The App Inventor Foundation is proud to partner with IRODORI.Inc to launch the Japan Wagamama Awards 2025! The competition encourages Japanese teenagers to create apps to solve local issues in collaboration with local municipalities. The winning team will be invited to present their work on a global stage at the MIT AI & Education Summit in July 2025. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gCzRtg-J