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Lyra Logan

Florida Education Fund

United States of America - Tampa

Biography

Lyra Logan, JD, is an MIT-certified Master Trainer in Educational Mobile Computing (App Inventor) who develops mobile apps using App Inventor, PHP and MySQL and is a certified Python, Perl, JavaScript, Database Design and Web Development professional. She also holds graduate certificates in Instructional Technology: Web Design and in Online Teaching and Learning, earned her BA from Fisk University and JD from Harvard. Currently, Logan is Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the Florida Education Fund (FEF), a nonprofit that creates and implements educational programs for underrepresented groups. In addition, she directs FEF’s pre-college programs, which include after-school and summer coding camps for elementary, middle, and high school students in Florida. Logan is the author of the recently published Learn to Program with App Inventor (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/597931/learn-to-program-with-app-inventor-by-lyra-blizzard-logan/), which teaches readers to code as they create several apps featuring some of today’s most exciting mobile technology. As an App Inventor Master Trainer since 2017, Logan has trained instructors and secondary students at Florida Gulf Coast University, the University of South Florida, and numerous middle and high schools to develop mobile apps while learning the universal fundamentals of computer programming that they will use when programming apps either in a blocks-based environment like App Inventor or with traditional text-based programming languages.