The AppJam+ program is the main outreach initiative of Dreams for Schools, which oversees programs and initiatives that contribute to educating youth about Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM) fields. The mission of Dreams for Schools is to inspire, create and educate students to be STEM literate with hard and soft skills needed to become the critical thinkers, creative leaders and technologists of tomorrow.

AppJam+ utilizes the concept of building software in a short period of time as a tool to excite and inform middle school students about STEM career fields while teaching them the creative and hands on technical process of mobile application development. Middle school students receive mentorship from college undergraduates and learn to make mobile apps for K-12 students.

• Directed and managed STEM projects for 25 middle school students by teaching fundamental programming concepts via app development.
• Created an Android mobile application using the Thunkable platform (won Fourth Place at the AppJam Showcase) for students to learn and implement app development techniques.
• Introduced and created an immersive STEM curriculum of rudimentary technical coding skills.

AppJam Spring 2018 Showcase- Fourth Place

As environmental issues continue to be a growing problem, my students and I created an app called Farm Run which aims to teach players about composting. Players will control the character and determine what items can be composted. Tapping the left or right buttons moves the character which enables the character to collect the appropriate item for composting and dodge all others. All art work were created through Piskel. Items that appear on the road are chosen randomly with varying speed. Character and road appears to move by switching between similar pictures.

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