About the Course
Are you ready to create your own mobile app? In this course, you’ll dive into the world of app development using MIT App Inventor, a visual, block-based programming tool that makes coding fun and approachable —even if you’ve never coded before. Through weekly online sessions, you’ll join interactive discussions and hands-on coding activities as you design, test, and launch your own original app from start to finish. Along the way, you’ll sharpen your problem-solving, logical thinking, and design skills that connect to real-world STEM challenges. Want to push yourself further? Optional extensions let you customize your app with advanced features, from building polished user interfaces to adding more complex functions. By the end of the course, you won’t just understand how apps are made—you’ll have built one yourself and gained the confidence to turn your ideas into real, shareable, mobile tools.
Learning Objectives
- Create a fully functional mobile app, demonstrating the ability to plan, code, and implement user interface components and logic blocks
- Analyze problems, design algorithmic solutions, and troubleshoot coding errors using systematic debugging strategies
- Integrate design features, media, and interactive elements into app projects, showcasing originality and user-centered design
About Advanced Enrichment courses
These courses offer above-grade-level material that is presented in a novel context, explored with other advanced learners, and guided by a CTY educator to help prepare students for higher-order thinking and college-style academic challenges.
Requirements
CTY courses have grade-level requirements and most require minimum test scores. Some courses may also have prerequisites.
Identification DetailsDates and Tuition
Online
You will be asked to join or sign in first.
Days: Every Tue for 7 weeks
Times: 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Register by: February 17, 2026
Time Commitment:
Please acquire all course materials by the course start date, unless noted as perishable. Items marked as “perishable” should not be acquired until the student needs them in the course. If you have questions about these materials or difficulty locating them, please contact [email protected].
Families will be notified by email of any required materials one week prior to the course start date.
Time Commitment: 2.5-3.5 hours per week (1.5 hours of class time, 1-2 hours of independent work). Course will include 6 sessions over 6 weeks.
Registration Fee and Financial Aid
Tuition and fees will be waived or reduced for students who qualify for financial aid.
Learn more about Financial Aid