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Fall resources for Technovation Challenge teams (i.e. Tech Field Trip and Hack Day)

Take a field trip to a tech company to learn about what happens inside of a tech company. Meet the company’s top women executives.

Attend a Hack Day to learn how to program apps using App Inventor.

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Hack Day Tutorial 2: PaintPot (Events/Variables & Camera)

In this tutorial, students will practice event-driven programming and learn how to use the camera feature in App Inventor.

In this tutorial, you will create an app that allows the user to draw lines and dots of various colors on the screen.

To earn the PaintPot badge, get started building your app following the tutorial instructions you printed out (see "Hack Day information" task to download these instructions). Post your questions and customization ideas below. When you are finished, post a comment and upload an image of your finished app!

Computer Science Concepts Taught in This Lesson:

events
variables
camera
pair programming

Task Discussion

AhliyyahG3 said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#5035128

on Feb. 22, 2013, 7:11 a.m.
Rebecca Feldman said:

This is my project featuring Cupcake, my own amazing cat!!!

on Jan. 27, 2013, 1:44 p.m.

JennaB said:

Hi Cupcake!

on Jan. 28, 2013, 4:09 p.m. in reply to Rebecca Feldman

TahaniZ said:

Aw this is adorable!

on Jan. 29, 2013, 10:43 a.m. in reply to JennaB
Rebecca Feldman said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#4809386

on Jan. 27, 2013, 1:02 p.m.
Rebecca Feldman said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#4809386

on Jan. 27, 2013, 1:01 p.m.
Rebecca Feldman said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#4809386

on Jan. 27, 2013, 12:52 p.m.
Quintacoders said:

Here's a screenshot of our work on the designer:

on Jan. 25, 2013, 5:57 p.m.

TahaniZ said:

Awesome! How did the hack go?

on Jan. 29, 2013, 10:44 a.m. in reply to Quintacoders
alphaaabs said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#4491145

on Jan. 11, 2013, 3:01 p.m.
JPAIntelligence said:

This is a link to my work: http://beta.appinventor.mit.edu/#4509817

on Dec. 27, 2012, 12:13 p.m.