Hello Inventors, One of our main goals at the MIT Center for Mobile Learning is to encourage greater participation in computing from a wider and more varied assortment of people. App Inventor does this by inherently fostering personal creativity with technology. I was pleased to see App Inventor mentioned in a recent blog post from Maggie Johnson, Google's Director of Education, in which she writes about the resurgence of CS Education: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/04/joining-forces-to-support-computer.html little by little...
Shay