Welcome back to School! Here’s a short slate of dates for student competitions and one for classroom funding. September 5 — Allen Distinguished Educator DIY Guidelines grants for K-12 classrooms (<=$1000) applications close. More info from Allen Distinguished Educators  Blog post summarizing the program FIRST(tm) Robotics programs have a two part registration: nationally, with FIRST, and locally […]

Here’s a chance for students to create an app and strut their stuff in Oregon and to be on display in the US Capitol. In brief: one to four students, not yet graduated from high school, no minimum age, two of whom are in the participating representative’s district app written after November 2, 2015 your […]

One of the educators in Melissa Kessler’s App Inventor class in Pendleton teaches preschool — and she came out of the class confident that she can use ScratchJr this fall, to help the kids she works with have fun, learn, and have some control. No more App specific classes this summer, but there are Game Development […]

Jason Galbraith from Sunset High taught App Development to a darkened roomful of teachers in Wilsonville — we let them back into the light for Lunch and Learn Speakers. Right now in Redmond, Melissa Kessler’s App Inventor class is going strong (but no pictures — yet). And next week in Pendleton, Melissa will be teaching […]