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2022 Appathon for Good Inspires New Technologies
The 2022 Appathon winners submitted apps that solved real-world problems in ingenious ways, from accessing public databases in real time to using artificial intelligence to count items captured by a camera phone.

CodeCombat Podcast Features App Inventor
Natalie Lao, Executive Director of the App Inventor Foundation, shares how App Inventor can be used to foster computational action with kids from around the world.

MIT News Spotlights Hal Abelson, App Inventor
MIT News spotlights Professor Hal Abelson, creator of App Inventor and one of the founders of the App Inventor Foundation. Learn more about how he has worked to make information technology more accessible to people of all ages.

How Brazilian Professor Became Leading Computer Science Educator
Dr. Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim shares how she designs hands-on and community-focused curricula to teach mobile app development, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to students in Brazil.

Congratulations to Winners of First Teacher Excellence Awards
Learn more about the 10 teachers who were selected as the winners of the 2022 App Inventor Teacher Excellence Awards.