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Another Award for the DIY Nano App!

Darrell Porcello, University of California, Berkeley

The DIY Nano app has recently been named one of the top 60 education apps available by the UK tutoring site Tutorful (formerly Tutora). The website staff downloaded and tested many educational apps from both the Apple and Android app stores before naming their finalists. DIY Nano scored high marks in the category for children ages 6 to 10 years.

DIY Nano provides free, easy to use, hands-on activities at your fingertips. Each activity includes material lists, step-by-step instructions, and detailed explanations. The activity materials are widely available and inexpensive, and you probably have many of them in your own home. The app includes links to family friendly videos and helps you browse the whatisnano.org public website for more information, activities, and videos. DIY Nano is available for iPhones and iPads (DIY Nano HD).

With over 250,000 downloads, DIY Nano is one of the most popular apps available from the do-it-yourself science app series from University of California’s Lawrence Hall of Science. The Tutora award is the latest of several awards for the nanotechnology education app. DIY Nano has also won a Parents’ Choice Silver Medal, was featured in Wired and FamilyFun magazines, and listed as an iPhone app of the week on the Common Sense Media website.

Learn more:

NISE Net product page: http://www.nisenet.org/catalog/diy-nano-app-iphone-and-ipad-versions

Download the DIY Nano app: www.whatisnano.org/diy-nano-app


Awards:

 

2013: DIY Nano App is featured in Wired Magazine's review of apps

Read full review by Wired Magazine

 

2012: DIY Nano App has been awarded a Silver Honor award for mobile apps by Parents' Choice

The Fall 2012 Parents' Choice review states,

"DIY Nano is a lovely way to provide hands on, accessible science learning to your child."

"It offers engaging videos that set the stage for learning, and spells out simple experiments in a recipe card format. Each experiment comes with a summary, set of instructions, and explanation. It's a great summer time or after school guide for things parents and teachers can do for learning about the difficult field of nanoscience."

Read full review by Parents' Choice

 

2012: Common Sense Media has featured the NISE Network's DIY Nano as their "iPhone App of the Week" 

"DIY Nano makes nanotechnology understandable for kids and gives them ways to experiment with the tiniest bits of engineering and science marvels at home. This easy-to-navigate app includes short videos about topics like materials used in nanotechnology, 'nano' and nature, and how nanotechnology affects everyday life."

Read full review by Common Sense Media

Activities are also available as PDFs and on whatisnano.org: