Our mission is to enable students to have passion-driven career choices led through the exposure to different fields (specifically technology and app development) during their regular classroom experiences. Our uniqueness comes with creating opportunities for this in ANY classroom, not just a computer science one, and building the teacher capacity to be comfortable with exploring opportunities like app development as a project-based learning tool in their core subject areas. The first company I co-founded, Crescerance, began its journey in 2011 with the simple idea of wanting to make it easier for schools to connect and truly engage with their parents, staff, students, alumni, and community at large. Through working with schools in creating their school apps (so that everyone could be connected through Mobile and have quick, easy access to the information they needed), we met students that had a keen interest in not just using the app that we created for their school, but in wanting to learn about the creation process of that app. "How did you make our app?" was a question that I got asked through numerous in person or Skype calls from teachers wanting to bring an App Developer perspective to their students. This is where MAD-learn was born. It was born from the curiosity of our students. From their quest to know more and absorb more. From our passion to feed that curiosity.MAD stands for Mobile App Development and MAD-learn is a program that is teaching students how to be Creators of Technology, instead of just Consumers of it. To learn more about MAD-learn, visit www.MAD-learn.com MAD-learn's relevant and engaging Mobile App Development program allows every K-12 student to create an app from beginning to end. Using the design thinking process, MAD-learn prepares today’s students for tomorrow’s careers by exposing them to all aspects of product development: ideation, planning, design, creation, testing, and launch.