Improving The World? There's An App For That

Ellen Spertus, Mills College, Oakland, CA

Stevenson Hall 1300
12:00 PM - 12:50 PM

With the rising availability of increasingly powerful mobile phones worldwide, apps are growing in popularity and importance . Google's App Inventor for Android was created to harness that enthusiasm and to meet human needs and desires by enabling non-programmers to easily create apps in a visual development environment. Ellen Spertus, one of the members of the App Inventor team and a faculty member at Mills College, will demonstrate App Inventor, present stories of how it has been used to inspire and empower students and hobbyists, and detail other ways that mobile apps are changing the world.