Week 15 (5/10/2011) Spring Semester
We had a guest speaker this week on a special day Tuesday - the last day of classes.
The speaker was Prof. Ralph Morelli from Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. He has been the co-principal investigator for NSF supported Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (http://hfoss.org ) We have been working with them for the last two years and it has been a learning experience as well as a productive experience. Ralph talked about their new project to get GK-12 students and teachers interested in computer science. He and his group has been working with app inventor for Android (It is based on scratch at MIT and app inventor was also developed jointly by MIT and Google). Their group won an award from White House last summer for developing an application for healthy living (developed by GK 12 teachers)
Ralph developed a few cool applications during his talk to show the versatility as well as power of App Inventor. To incite further interests, he raffled off prizes as a part of his applications demo.
His talk as well his presentations are something We (I) can emulate.
His talk signaled the end of Spring Semester 2011. What a great way to end the semester!
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