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Seventh Grade Students Win Second Place at the MIT App Inventor Summit
This summer, on behalf of the Maumee Valley Country Day School Lower School App Team, seventh grade students Jonathan Buchanan and Mihir Joshi accepted second place at the MIT App Inventor Summit. Hosted at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, the MIT App Inventor Summit is a professional conference directed to the community that has grown around MIT's App Inventor software.
This summer, on behalf of the Maumee Valley Country Day School Lower School App Team, seventh grade students Jonathan Buchanan and Mihir Joshi accepted second place at the MIT App Inventor Summit. Hosted at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA, the MIT App Inventor Summit is a professional conference directed to the community that has grown around MIT's App Inventor software.
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This year’s summit drew inventors from across the nation ranging in age from 12 to 69. As the youngest presenters, Jonathan and Mihir participated in the Summit’s poster presentation made up of 24 entries. Part of the competition included pitching their poster idea in front of the entire MIT conference.
Jonathan and Mihir met many MIT professionals including Hal Abelson, MIT’s lead App Inventor software professor. While attending the Summit, Jonathan and Mihir also took a behind-the-scenes private tour of Google’s Cambridge Offices.
Jonathan and Mihir brought home second place MIT App Inventor Summit certificates for the entire Maumee Valley Lower School App Team.
Front row: Isaac Grinberg of Maumee, Mihir Joshi of Sylvania, Ivan Stretten of Temperance
Middle row: Jonathan Buchanan of Perrysburg, Stefan Radjenovic of Sylvania, Paradon Pipatjarasgit of Sylvania, Jeremiah Taylor of Sylvania
Back row: Upper Intermediate Teacher, Mr. Brian Soash of Perrysburg
Front row: Isaac Grinberg of Maumee, Mihir Joshi of Sylvania, Ivan Stretten of Temperance
Middle row: Jonathan Buchanan of Perrysburg, Stefan Radjenovic of Sylvania, Paradon Pipatjarasgit of Sylvania, Jeremiah Taylor of Sylvania
Back row: Upper Intermediate Teacher, Mr. Brian Soash of Perrysburg
Maumee Valley Country Day School is the only PreK-12th grade accredited, co-educational, and independent school in Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan.
