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Effie Li. Hi I'm from China and I'm a senior at Trinity College majoring in Computer Science and Psychology. I love MOOCs and I'm excited to be helping you on your online course experience.

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Alicia Morelli. I graduated from Trinity College in 2006 with a degree in bioinformatics. I'm currently based out of Durham, NC and am looking forward to assisting you as you learn to create mobile apps!

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Karen Lang Karen works as the Education and Business Development Coordinator for MIT App Inventor. Prior to joining the App Inventor team in 2015, Karen spent much of the past twenty years as a Computer Science teacher, in the US and abroad. Karen will be spearheading the MIT Master Trainers program this year, and is eager to get to know many of you in the MOOC and beyond.

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Ilya Ilyankou. Hello from sunny England! I am a student at Trinity College majoring in Computer Science and Studio Arts, and I am spending my junior year at Oxford exploring Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. I am thrilled to be a TA for this edX class, and I’ll do as best as I can to help you become proficient with App Inventor!.

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Tony O'Rourke. Tony is a member of the IT staff at Trinity College with over 17 years of experience in application development. Most recently he has delved into Android development both at Trinity College and via MOOCs). When not in front of a screen he enjoys the rejuvenating effects of spending time in nature.

Community TAs

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Tika Carr I'm Tika Carr (aka "RavenLX") and am taking this course for the second time as a refresher in preparation for Part 2. I have over 35 years of programming experience in many languages, and have written many technical articles and tutorials. I enjoy learning and sharing my discoveries with others.

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Tony Nguyen / Khoi Nguyen Tran Minh is a MIT Master Trainers in Educational Mobile Computing and a lecturer at Hoa Sen University, Vietnam, teaching Software Engineering, Cloud Computing, Web Development and Android App Development using App Inventor.