MIT App Inventor at Kentucky Middle School

Jan 13, 2020 selim's Blog

This is a guest blog by MIT App Inventor staff member Jeff Freilich.

One morning in mid-November, two intrepid MIT undergrads, Viktoria (Vik) Tabunshchyk and Tommy Heng, rose extra early (...not an easy feat for an MIT undergrad) to deliver a stellar MIT App Inventor workshop via videoconference to a class of eager eighth graders in Appalachian Kentucky. The middle schoolers had a great opportunity to learn how to create their first mobile app and pose questions to our MIT students about their experiences at MIT.

MIT App Inventor is now taught in middle schools across Floyd, Pike and other rural Kentucky counties to teach vital computational thinking skills to middle school, high school and community college students eager to align their career path toward technology.