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App Inventor Foundation

App Inventor Foundation

民间和社会团体

A nonprofit that empowers people to create apps that improve their lives, uplift their communities, and change the world

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App Inventor Foundation (https://appinventorfoundation.org) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that empowers people across the globe to create apps that improve their lives, uplift their communities, and change the world. App Inventor (https://appinventor.mit.edu/) is a free and open-source platform created at MIT and Google that helps enable anyone of any age, including those who may not think of themselves as coders, to create highly functional apps for real, effective change in their communities. We were founded in 2007 by Professor Hal Abelson at MIT and Mark Friedman at Google, and have since grown to 15 Million registered users across 195 countries, with 1 Million monthly active users. Having been incubated at MIT for the past decade by some of the best researchers, scientists, and engineers in the world, App Inventor is now expanding beyond an MIT research project into a global nonprofit organization.

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https://appinventorfoundation.org
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民间和社会团体
规模
2-10 人
类型
非营利机构
创立
2022

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  • Join Natalie Lao from the App Inventor Foundation to celebrate the International Day of Digital Learning with UNESCO on March 19, 2025! ?? She'll be speaking alongside Verna Lalbeharie, Executive Director of EdTech Hub, in a global webinar titled "Co-creating Technologies for Learning Equity: Lessons from Evidence and Experience." ?? The webinar will take place on March 19, 2025, from 12:30–14:30 CET ?? Learn more and register https://lnkd.in/eemUWw_P ?#AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor?

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    Shafika Isaacs (PhD)

    UNESCO Chief of Section: Technology and AI in Education

    ?? Celebrate International Day of Digital Learning with UNESCO on March 19 2025! I look forward to moderating a Fireside Chat with two dynamic women leaders in digital learning: Natalie Lao, Executive Director of the App Inventor Foundation and Verna Lalbeharie, Executive Director of EdTech Hub, who will be taking the virtual floor in a global webinar: “Co-creating technologies for learning equity: Lessons from evidence and experience”. There are many situations where the use of technologies by teachers and education practitioners are not necessarily ‘transforming’ large scale education systems nor prompting ‘leapfrog’ gains in educational achievement, but rather supporting learning and schooling in subtle yet significant ways. We will explore where, how and under what conditions learning equity gains have been achieved, especially in challenging educational contexts.? ?? The webinar will take place from 12:30-14:30 CET ?? Registration for the webinar is available here: https://lnkd.in/dZGv2Y8r For more information regarding the event, including a detailed programme, please visit: https://lnkd.in/dYVMY4vv. For any further questions, please contact [email protected]

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    Join Natalie Lao and David C. Petty Petty from the App Inventor Foundation at EdTechTeacher's 2025 AI in EDU Summit this Tuesday, March 11th, at Bentley University! Natalie will present the UNESCO AI Competency Framework and discuss how to empower K-12 students’ AI competencies. She and David Petty will also lead a session on Artificial Intelligence with MIT App Inventor & the UNESCO AI Competency Frameworks. In another session, David will join Melissa Z., Digital Literacy and CS Teacher, to discuss "Behind the Scenes of AI: Teaching AI Literacy." ??Learn more: https://lnkd.in/euWqzYjr #AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor #AIinEDU

    • Illustration promoting AI in EDU Summit with headshot of speaker Natalie Lao. Text: The Unesco AI Competency Framework.
    • Illustration promoting AI in EDU Summit with headshots of speakers David Petty and Melissa Zeitz. Text: Behind the science of AI.
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    The Global AI Hackathon is back! Presented by MIT RAISE and the App Inventor Foundation, the Global AI Hackathon is a free, virtual competition inviting innovators of all ages to use MIT App Inventor to build AI-powered apps for a cause inspired by the United Nations SDGs. ?? Winners will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to present their projects at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI & Education Summit in Cambridge, MA, on July 16-18, 2025! ?? Open to participants of all ages, worldwide ?? Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/gbMeTnhe ?? Stay tuned for updates #GlobalAIHackathon #AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor

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    It was great to meet Dr. Juan Arratia—Professor, Founder, and President of the Scientific Caribbean Foundation—who was in town to receive the prestigious AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award! He will be funding the App Inventor Summer Immersion program (Puerto Rico Chapter), which will give high school students from under resourced communities the opportunity to conduct hands-on research at MIT using MIT App Inventor. We’re so excited to launch this program together and empower innovators globally! Congratulations again, Dr. Arratia! ???? #AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor

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    It was an incredible experience attending Computer Science Teachers Association Texas Chapters Conference for the first time and connecting with so many dedicated CS, AI, robotics, and STEM educators from across Texas! It was also a pleasure to reconnect with Yu Meng, who is a former App Inventor Teacher Excellence Awards winner. A highlight of the conference was the energetic keynote delivered by Jeanine Banks and Andrea Austin from Google who encouraged girls to explore CS early and showcased how AI is opening up new job opportunities for everyone. We’d like to thank everyone who joined and contributed to the thought-provoking discussion during our Ethical AI with App Inventor for Teachers workshop. We look forward to returning to Texas for WeTeach_CS this summer! ?? #AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor #TexasCSTAChapters2025

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    Join us at Computer Science Teachers Association Texas Chapters Conference 2025 tomorrow, February 8, in Plano, Texas! ?? Natalie Lao and David C. Petty from the App Inventor Foundation will be leading a teacher professional development workshop on Generative AI (GAI)—through an ethics-first approach aligned with UNESCO’s AI Competency Frameworks for School Students & Teachers. ?? https://lnkd.in/gNYxeGeJ #AppInventorFoundation #MITAppInventor #TexasCSTAChapters2025

    • Flyer for the Texas CSTA Chapters Conference 2025, featuring Natalie Lao, PhD (MIT Researcher, UNESCO Expert) and David Petty (Co-Founder, CSTA New England, High School Teacher).
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    We are thrilled to welcome José Dominguez to the App Inventor Foundation as our new Principal Engineer! ?? With nearly two decades of experience building software across big companies and startups — while contributing to academic research and commercialization projects — José brings a deep passion for making technology accessible to all. José has been part of the App Inventor journey from the beginning! As a core contributor since MIT App Inventor was an open-source project and transitioned from Google in 2012, he played a key role in growing the open-source community, organizing public calls, and participating in global events like Google Summer of Code and Facebook Open Academy. Now, in a full-circle moment as Principal Engineer, José will focus on enhancing the platform’s features and accessibility, collaborating closely with the team at MIT to ensure that App Inventor remains a powerful tool for learners and educators worldwide. Let’s give him a warm welcome! ?? #MITAppInventor #AppInventor #Welcome

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    We’re excited to welcome Outdomchakriya Soth to the App Inventor Foundation as our new Communication Associate! ?? Riya is a community builder, outside-the-box problem solver, and passionate advocate for global collaboration through technology and human-centered solutions. Currently pursuing a double major in Business and Economics at Minerva University, she has spent the past four years living, learning, and working across seven countries, collaborating with local organizations to tackle global challenges through community-driven solutions. Riya has founded and scaled student communities like Notion@Minerva and Cambodian Kakehasher, fostering inclusive spaces for learners to connect, collaborate, and innovate. Her journey with MIT App Inventor began in middle school through the Technovation Challenge, which later led her to become a Program Intern at Technovation, where she supported workflows, managed student newsletters, and advocated for alumna perspectives. Now, as Communication Associate at the App Inventor Foundation, Riya will manage social media channels, website content, articles, and newsletters. She is committed to amplifying the voices of App Inventor learners, educators, and innovators worldwide and ensuring that the Foundation’s mission of making technology accessible to all is shared widely and effectively. #MITAppInventor #AppInventor #Welcome

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    Our Executive Director Natalie Lao was invited to give a presentation on the UNESCO AI Competency Framework at The Education University of Hong Kong this week, as part of the Seminar on AI Literacy in the Fourth Industrial Era. We are grateful to Professor Siu-Cheung Kong for the invitation, and thanks to Professor Yin (Nicole) Yang, Professor Chee-Kit Looi, Cora K Y Siu, and Jenny Lim for the warm welcome!

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  • We are proud of our student ambassador Tianyi Huang who presented at NeurIPS, one of the largest #AI and #ML conferences, as a mere high school student! ?? Learn more about his impressive research work and NeurIPS experience below.

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    Tianyi Huang

    Founder and President of App-In Club

    I'M HERE!!! #NeurIPS 2024!!! I just arrived at the Vancouver Convention Centre, and I couldn’t resist writing this post—the energy here is like nothing I’ve ever experienced. My journey to Vancouver was a bit of an adventure (flight delays, cancellations, layovers, and finally arriving), but even that added to the excitement. On the plane, I noticed so many fellow NeurIPS attendees (hints => poster tubes & university/company merch), and it struck me how amazing it is to be among some of the world’s brightest researchers in #AI and #ML, all gathered in one place. I’m super excited to share that I’m an accepted author at a NeurIPS 2024 Workshop and Affinity Event! Our paper, “Mitigating Bias in Queer Representation within Large Language Models: A Collaborative Agent Approach”—a collaborative work with my mentee Arya Somasundaram—has been accepted into the Queer In AI Workshop. I’ll be presenting this work during the poster session in West Ballroom D on Tuesday at 6 PM. If you’re at NeurIPS, feel free to swing by, check out my poster, or just have a chat! - Paper (arXiv): https://lnkd.in/gWG7gyt6 This paper for me marks a significant milestone in my research journey. While I’ve worked on so many independent and team research projects over the years, having this work recognized at a NeurIPS Workshop as purely high school authors is truly insane—especially considering the level of the other accepted authors and its double-blind peer review process. Beyond the acceptance itself, the journey—grinding through sleepless nights before the submission deadline, learning from failures, and continuously refining the work—has elevated my research to new heights. Even now, as I prepare submissions for other conferences, each attempt pushes my understanding and research capabilities further, and I feel like I'm at a totally different level now compared to a few months ago when I submitted this paper. However, with this growth also comes a deeper awareness of the long journey ahead and the gap between where I am now and the top-level researchers I aspire to become one day. Anyways => The thought of spending the entire week surrounded by cutting-edge ideas and passionate researchers feels almost surreal. I’m looking forward to connecting with everyone, talking about research, and soaking in the experience of NeurIPS. If you’re here and would like to chat or grab food/coffee, feel free to reach me at [email protected] or just find me in person—I’ll be around all week! FYI: My current research focuses include LLMs, multi-agent systems, RAG, trustworthy AI, and education, and I’m equally excited to be representing the App Inventor Foundation and App-In Club during this conference. Stay tuned for some exciting posts on the App-In Club socials, where I’ll share my perspective as an accepted workshop author. Huge thanks to NeurIPS and Queer In AI for the complimentary registration tickets! Here’s to an unforgettable week at NeurIPS 2024!

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