Lenovo, NAF launch mobile app development programme in US

Lenovo and US-based National Academy Foundation (NAF) have launched a programme to teach mobile application development to high school students across the United States. Five schools from NAF's network of career academies are piloting the programme as part of Lenovo's initiative to encourage student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects. To aid the students and teachers implement the curriculum, Lenovo provided a package of technology products to each school, including Android-based ThinkPad Tablets and large format ThinkCentre HD All-in-One desktops, among other items. The other schools that will offer the application development course are part of the National Academy Foundation's Academies of Information Technology: Grover Cleveland High School in New York City; Downtown Magnets H igh School in Los Angeles, California; Pathways to Technology Magnet School in Hartford, Connecticut, and AJ Moore Academy of Information and Technology in Waco, Texas. 

The programme aims to make the curriculum available to NAF's 100 Academies of Information Technology. The course is designed to be implemented as either a twelve-week after-school or 'out-of-school time' activity to supplement the NAF-developed IT courses students take during the school day or as part of the existing NAF daytime curriculum. Student teams will develop a working wireframe, business plan and implementation schedule for an Android-based mobile application.

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