Explore how adding a mobile apps development course course shifts students from smartphone surfers to algorithmic thinkers and re-energizes educators with innovative teaching strategies. Created around experiential learning, authentic real-world skills, and connections to the software development community, the MobileMakersEdu program enables teachers and students with little to no coding experience to develop their own real mobile apps that can be put on on devices. Hear examples of schools who have doubled their computer science enrollment and increased the numbers of non-traditional CS students by incorporating a mobile apps class.