Congratulations to Dr. Juan Arratia on receiving the AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award! 🎉 He will also be funding the 🇵🇷 App Inventor Summer Immersion, providing under-resourced students hands-on research at MIT with MIT App Inventor. We’re so excited to launch this program together!

🚨Registration is OPEN! 🚨 Presented by MIT RAISE and the App Inventor Foundation, the Global AI Hackathon invites innovators of all ages worldwide to use #MITAppInventor to build AI-powered apps inspired by the United Nations SDGs. 🔗 Learn more ow.ly/wGwt50VawlF

Join Natalie Lao and David C. Petty from the App Inventor Foundation and Melissa Zeitz at EdTechTeacher's 2025 AI in EDU Summit this Tuesday, March 11th, at Bentley University! 🔗 edtechteacher.org/aisummit/

🚨Submissions are OPEN! 🚨 Presented by MIT RAISE and the App Inventor Foundation, the Global AI Hackathon invites innovators of all ages worldwide to use #MITAppInventor to build AI-powered apps inspired by the United Nations SDGs. 🔗 Learn more aif.to/gah-2025

🚨 Only 14 days left to submit your project! 📅 Submissions are open until April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 Learn more aif.to/gah-2025

Need inspiration for your Global AI Hackathon submission? Check out VIPMOD by Maura Moore-McCune, a 2024 Youth Individual Winner! She used AI and #MITAppInventor to make the world more accessible 🌍✨ 📅 Submissions by April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 aif.to/gah-2025

🚨 Only 7 days left to submit your project! 📅 Submissions are open until April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 Learn more aif.to/gah-2025

Looking for inspiration for your Global AI Hackathon project? Meet SignLingo — the winning app from the Youth Team category of the 2024 Global AI Hackathon! 🌍✨ 📅 Submissions are open until April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 Learn more: aif.to/gah-2025

📣 Final Stretch! Just 3 days left to submit your project! 📅 Submissions are open until April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 Learn more aif.to/gah-2025

🚨 Final Call! Submit your project TODAY! 📅 Submissions are open until April 14, 2025 at 23:59 AOE 🔗 Learn more aif.to/gah-2025

Did you know that water has a memory? Young learners can discover how water "remembers" with this MIT App Inventor activity. 👀 Watch: bit.ly/3RixolH 🌍 Check out the FREE Day of Climate curriculum: bit.ly/3G3CqQs

Join David Kim at ACM CHI Conference 2025 in Yokohama, Japan 🇯🇵 He’ll be presenting the paper “Aptly: Making Mobile Apps from Natural Language,” a platform that combines LLMs with #MITAppInventor to create apps using natural language! 🔗 Learn more and register: chi2025.acm.org

With App Inventor’s award-winning Mobile Data Science Toolkit, students can capture data anywhere, anytime in apps they build. For educators, it means new possibilities for teaching math & science. Check out our new materials at: appinventor.mit.edu/.../Mobile_Dat…

📣Texas Grade 6–12 teachers: Join us July 21-24 at UTSA WeTeach_CS, weteachcs.bsky.social for a 4-day, travel-expenses-paid professional development workshop on AI & data science with MIT App Inventor! ⏰ Apply by May 29, 2025 🔗 For more information and to register: aif.to/2025-tx-ppw

5/15/25: MIT RAISE & App Inventor teams mark the 25th year at MIT of our talented program manager, Marisol Diaz who joined App Inventor in the early days of the project and has helped steer it ever since. Congrats on the impressive milestone! Le deseamos un feliz aniversario!

Welcome Michael Gallagher, our new Principal Engineer at the App Inventor Foundation! 🎉 With many years of experience in enterprise software, he’s excited to help make #MITAppInventor even more powerful and accessible!

We’re excited to welcome Giovanna Romero Contreras as our new Education Associate! She aims to empower students to use physical computing and AI to develop mobile solutions that can reshape communities and drive meaningful impact. 🙌

What an honor: the #MITAppInventor team was recognized with not one but two awards at the Google #Blockly Summit this week! Congrats to Evan Patton for receiving Best AI & ML Presentation Award and Mark Friedman who was named Community Builder of the Year! 🎊

Great to meet everyone at the #wtcs25 WeTeach_CS, weteachcs.bsky.social Summit in Austin! David C. Petty, our Education Program Manager, hosted the “Ethical Generative AI with App Inventor” workshop which gave a hands-on intro to #MITAppInventor and explored an ethics-first approach to #AI.