This year's CreateAthon, a Wellesley Education Foundation event, will be held on March 24 at the Wellesley High School from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Wellesley High School. At the CreateAthon, high school and middle school students who live or go to school in Wellesley will work in teams to create an app from scratch. These apps will target specific community problems such as environmental, education or health issues presented in problem statements by community members such as Wellesley superintendent David Lussier, leaders from Sustainable Wellesley and local business owners.
The inaugural 2017 Wellesley CreateAthon, a Wellesley Education Foundation event, brought together 67 middle-schoolers and high-schoolers from Wellesley for an exciting day of project-based learning at Wellesley High School. Students worked in teams to design and build apps to solve real problems in Wellesley. The CreateAthon was the brainchild of WHS computer science students, including Ethan Chiu and Eleanor Boyd, with support and mentorship from WHS Math and Computer Science teacher Dr. Robert Cohen.
To register for CreateAthon, visit http://tiny.cc/b9jxry.
For a video of the 2017 CreateAthon, visit https://youtu.be/iAVR1vWl3mI
Potential sponsors may visit https://www.wellesleyeducationfoundation.org/copy-of-stem-expo-become-a-sponsor for further information.
For more information, visit https://www.wellesleyeducationfoundation.org/createathon or email wellesleycreates@gmail.com.
