Stories

Success stories with App Inventor.

App Inventing and What Our Schools Could Be
The Advanced Math and Science Academy in Marlborough, MA is a charter school for grades 6-12. This remarkable school is one of very few in the country that has a computer science strand as part of its core curriculum for all students. Professor David Wolber from the University of San Francisco met with a group of AMSA students and was so impressed that he wrote up this blog post about why he found these students to be so outstanding.
Darren and Jack with Phones Relevant and Real World Computing
In August 2011, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Computer Society asked Jeremy Scott to exemplify the teaching of Computing Science to Scotland’s junior high school students. Here’s his App Inventor story… For over twenty years, desktop operating systems were the basis of most students’ experience of Computing. Today’s learners have a different experience of Computing: it’s on-line, social and increasingly mobile. Computing devices have become more tactile and personal, the result of convergence of numerous technologies from multi-touch to motion-sensing and GPS.
USF Students use App Inventor - Video Thumbnail App Inventor Course at the University of San Francisco (USF)
At the University of San Francisco, App Inventor is taught as a core curriculum course to non-computer-science majors. Many of the students take the course because they hate Math and the course covers this dreaded requirement.
An App for Women's Health
I have been a women’s health Nurse Practitioner for 23 years. As part of my doctoral capstone project at Regis College I decided to develop a mobile app to educate women about the Pap test. Working closely with Professor Ralph Morelli at Trinity College, we met weekly for several months to build this app using App Inventor for Android.