Edinburgh Science

App Inventor is an interactive activity which teaches secondary school pupils to build fully functional apps promoting creativity, computational thinking and basic programming skills using blocks-based coding. It will be included as part of Edinburgh Science’s 2019 Careers Hive event which is held at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. This free-to-attend event brings industry and education together through interactive experiences where pupils learn about careers in STEM and meet professionals working within these fields. App Inventor participants will: Identify that both creativity and an understanding of code is important in app development; learn about different roles in app development such as design, programming and cybersecurity; and consider the wide range of industries that require apps. More than 2,000 young people will have the opportunity to take part in App inventor.