One-week projects were conducted in a Pitch-Studio-Presentation format. These
projects served to help students learn App Inventor for Android while also learning how
to work together and in a studio environment. The first two projects were open-ended,
and students tended to reuse features from the tutorials with minor alterations. Once the
students became more comfortable with the tools and ideas-and more comfortable with
learning by exploration and collaboration-we used project themes to steer their creative
energies in new directions. Themes we explored during the semester include service,
entertainment, entrepreneurship, and education.