Students will learn to build an app using MIT App Inventor.
Students will:
- Analyze real-world problems and use critical thinking skills in order to solve them
- Explore the variety of coding languages
- Describe the difference between front-end and back-end design
- Design and build an app in MIT App Inventor
- Customize App
- Explain the engineering process as it pertains to their app
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Engineer’s Presentation
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ViewMeet the lab intro host
Lauren Sawyer
Researcher, Scripps Institution
Lauren Sawyer is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Coastal Observation Research and Development Center (CORDC). She works mainly with autonomous vehicles, and her research is currently focusing on navigation algorithms for surface ocean vehicles. She is obtaining her master’s degree in mechanical engineering at University of California, San Diego, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Penn State University. Lauren has been working with Engineering Tomorrow for almost 4 years, and she is passionate about the mission and working with kids to inspire a love for engineering.
Lauren Sawyer is a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Coastal Observation Research and Development Center (CORDC). She works mainly with autonomous vehicles, and her research is currently focusing on navigation algorithms for surface ocean vehicles. She is obtaining her master’s degree in mechanical engineering at University of California, San Diego, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Penn State University. Lauren has been working with Engineering Tomorrow for almost 4 years, and she is passionate about the mission and working with kids to inspire a love for engineering.
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