The 2026 Global Appathon brought together people of all ages from around the world to build mobile apps that address real problems in their communities. Inspired by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, participants used MIT App Inventor to turn personal experience, local knowledge, and technical creativity into practical solutions.
Two award-winning App Inventor projects from Japan recently got some well-deserved attention from local television.
David Petty and Angie Zhou present on using App Inventor to center humans in the teaching of AI.
Being attended by Education Program Manager David Petter, the CSTA Annual Conference is the premier annual conference for K–12 computer-science educators.
Director of Impact Kelly Shiohira heads to Helsinki, meeting with UNESCO's AI and Media Literacy Expert Group.
The world has changed dramatically since the publication of UNESCO's Media and Information Literacy Curriculum in 2021. Artificial intelligence now generates and distributes content at unprecedented scale and speed. Algorithms shape what people see and believe. The ethical, social, and environmental dimensions of our information landscape have grown far more complex.
This expert group is convening to discuss and update the curriculum in light of the urgent need to respond.
Citizen scientists Marine Voskanyan and Jyoti Prajapati say apps, machine learning, and A.I. are the keys to open science communities.
