We help eradicate poverty, starting in India. A sustainable prosperity depends on an economy of innovation, which in turn depends on creativity and technical skills. Smartphones with Internet enable even young people to sell apps to a worldwide market. Our already collaborating team includes the Play Learn Foundation India, with a decade of experience teaching especially rural youth and girls literacy and app programming skills, and three university partners (MIT, Berkeley, and Graz University of Technology) who are the developers of three complementary visual programming platforms (App Inventor, Snap!, and Catrobat) that enable intuitive first steps to allow anyone to develop code using their native language. All of the young people we work with develop computational thinking skills and an innovation mindset, which will benefit them in their careers and entrepreneurial endeavors; some will gain immediate reward through worldwide app sales. In post-grant years we’ll extend this work beyond India. Girls chatting in the Video:
Sangamithra (Red Dress seated on the left)
Aiswaraya (White dress seated on the right)
Representatives of the partners in the video:
Aditi Prasad, Play Learn Foundation India - Indian Girls Code
Harold (Hal) Abelson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT App Inventor
Brian Harvey, University of California, Berkeley - Snap!
Bernadette Spieler, Graz University of Technology - Catrobat/Pocket Code
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