It’s Demo Day for participants in this summer’s ISE Coding Garage, an app development workshop for high school students. There is a nervous energy in the room as students prepare to demonstrate the mobile apps they’ve been developing for the past eight weeks as part of a STEM initiative developed by Coralville-based Innovative Software Engineering (ISE) and supported by the University of Iowa...

By the time they enter high school, 51 percent of all students bring a smartphone to school every day—engaging in social media, texting, and using apps for fun and, occasionally, education. So it’s little surprise that some of those students would develop an interest in creating their own mobile apps.