App Academy

A four-year program at Pasadena High School preparing students to be successful in a technology-driven world.

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We're so proud of App sophomore Rachelle Kanounji for completing her Girl Scout Gold Award project, "Girls Can Code"! Rachelle inspired more than 40 5th-8th grade girls with her fun and carefully designed coding classes on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. https://t.co/Jvm4jhoSfF

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Join us next Wednesday evening to see our students’ creative coding projects and learn more about App Academy!

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App students competing in linear algebra at Math Academy’s SOLVE competition!

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App students heard today from two guest speakers from the City of Los Angeles's Information Technology Agency: they learned about how the City of LA works with open data, and cybersecurity!

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The App Academy sophomores had a great time visiting local software company Spokeo last week! Students heard from the CEO and engineers, and got a tour of the offices (some even managed to squeeze in a game of table tennis!).

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More holiday fun from App students making their own wintery Snapchat-style filters using p5.js and ml5.js!

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Students had fun using their webcams, @p5xjs, and machine-learning library @ml5js to create their own wintery Snapchat-style filters!

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Guest speaker Marijke Jorritsma from JPL spoke to App students this morning about her work in user experience design!

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Check out George’s game, Placeholder! (Yes, that’s what it’s called). You can play the game at https://t.co/1jRqnxLc8x.

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Freshmen hard at work on a Saturday coding and building a robot! 👩🏼‍💻🤖

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Check out the game that Jaimyn made in Web Dev 1! Follow the link and click the "play" button to play it. https://t.co/PFbS2yH1mL

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The juniors combined trigonometry and P5.js today to make some lovely abstract animations! Check out this example from Ian!

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Our AP Computer Science seniors are writing Java code to manipulate images. Check out Cameron’s pixellator!

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Anders and Cannon are using Java to simulate 2D collisions for their AP CS project!

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Congratulations to all of the App Academy students who completed internships this summer! It was great to hear about all of the ways that students learned and contributed as interns at the celebration last weekend.

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Lots of exciting activities planned for this year in the WECode club!

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Good turnout at our first club meeting of the school year 😀

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App students Max and Andrew interned at Caltech this summer! They presented today, with team member Mira, their work programming physics simulations using Python.

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Congratulations, App Academy class of 2018! We are so proud of you!

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App freshmen and sophomores learned about web design, Blockchain, cybersecurity and more at the Digital Tech and Entrepreneur Career Expo today!

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Thanks to all who joined us tonight for a truly lovely medallion ceremony and celebration for the App Academy class of 2018!