Power Apps isn’t just for business workflows — it can be a brilliant tool for teaching kids to build their own mobile apps. In this post, I’ll share how my son and I built a sign language spelling app in Power Apps, inspired by a fantastic presentation from the PowerApps 4 Kids team.
The PowerApps 4 Kids Workshop
My kids and I attended a presentation by Rory Neary and Pieter Veenstra of www.powerapps4kids.com where Pieter’s son Leo did a demo of his Planet PowerApp live on Zoom. Rory then went on to demo a 5-minute PowerApp that kids could build using sign language gifs available on their GitHub. The solution used a text input field that was then split across a Gallery using a dynamic reference to the animated gifs held on GitHub.
Building Our First PowerApp
My son, Alasdair, and I then went on to build the same demo app and he learned how to build his first PowerApp solution.
Resources
Thank you PowerApps 4 Kids. The website has loads of resource to teach your children how to use PowerApps.