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Celebrating 100 Million Projects

In February 2024, the MIT App Inventor server reached the milestone of hosting 100,000,000 projects! 🎉🎉 This milestone is a testament to the far-reaching impact of the platform, which has been translated into 20 different languages and is used in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Click 'More' to learn about App Inventor's reach.

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Boston Public School Students Consider AI and Data Science

Students from the Boston Public School AI and Data Science with App Inventor workshop.

Working on thorny, real-world problems such as climate change requires data to better understand them. High schoolers from Boston Public Schools explored climate data using AI and data science during a three-day workshop at MIT’s Stata Center.

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App Inventor at FOSDEM 2024

I recently had the pleasure of attending FOSDEM 2024 in Brussels, Belgium last week. FOSDEM is a gathering of people contributing to free and open source software hosted at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). While primaily focused on Europe it draws people from around the world. This year, Peter Mathijssen, an App Inventor Power User, and Bart Mathijssen, a contributor to App Inventor on GitHub, helped organize two tracks: FOSS Education Software Devroom and FOSDEM Junior.

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Listen: How AI will Shape the Future of Education with Hal Abelson

CSAIL Professor Hal Abelson has a long history of looking at the importance of Computer Science education and helping shape its future. Listen as he joins Kara Miller in conversation to discuss how AI will shape education moving forward.

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