Built at WCT · Student Showcase

Students don't just learn tech. They build it.

Real apps, games, films and beats from We Create Tech labs. Every project here was designed and built by a student.

A few highlights from our labs. Students build far more than we can fit on one page.

Featured build · High school students

ATLift

Three Atlanta high school students who had never written code spent about five months building a free app that connects families experiencing homelessness to shelter, food, healthcare, jobs, legal aid and MARTA directions.

  • Live on the App Store and Google Play
  • Designed from interviews with shelter staff, social workers and community members
  • Presented at the Best Buy Foundation Charity Classic Showcase in Minneapolis

Built by Natan, Alexander & Bereket

App StoreGoogle Play
Best Buy Teen Tech Center · After School · Built by a teen

FocusGuard

A screen time dashboard with a parent portal, live activity feed, focus alerts, device profiles and custom usage limits. A student spotted a real problem at home and coded the solution from scratch.

HTMLCSSJavaScriptCapacitor

Standards covered

  • CSTA 3A-AP-16Design and iteratively develop computational artifacts for practical intent or to address a societal issue.
  • ISTE 1.4aUse a deliberate design process to generate ideas and solve authentic problems.
Daydream Atlanta Game Jam · Age 16 · First time coding

Game Jam

Game enginesTeamworkGodotUnity

Sixteen-year-olds who had never written a line of code formed teams and shipped complete, playable games in a single game jam, all built around one theme: sacrifice. Here are a few of their games. Pick one and play.

  • Building in a real game engine
  • Player controls, levels and win states
  • Splitting work across a team
  • Shipping a finished game on a deadline

Standards covered

  • CSTA 3A-AP-16Design and iteratively develop computational artifacts for personal expression, using events to start instructions.
  • CSTA 3A-AP-17Decompose problems into smaller components.
  • ISTE 1.7cContribute constructively to project teams, taking on various roles to work toward a common goal.
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STACK HQ Lab · 2-hour lab · Under 11 through college

Mission Gallery

Game designStorytellingAI characters

Students ran a live mission inside a VR-themed world with an AI character, then designed their own: a crisis, a hero and the rules to win. Each mission became a playable game.

  • Win and lose states, lives and levels
  • Difficulty that ramps up over time
  • Keyboard and touch controls
  • Character, story and world design

Standards covered

  • CSTA 3A-AP-16Design and iteratively develop computational artifacts for personal expression, using events to start instructions.
  • CSTA 3A-AP-17Decompose problems into smaller components.
  • CSTA 3A-NI-05Show how sensitive data can be affected by attacks (Cyber Guardian).
  • ISTE 1.6bCreate original works or responsibly repurpose digital resources into new creations.
Featured mission

Neon Blackout

Noel · Age 11

2087, Neo-Kowloon. A rogue AI named ARIA has seized the city's network and the lights are out. You are the last edge runner online. Noel wrote the story and built the mission, complete with a trailer and sound.

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CreativX Lab · Web app build · Ages 7 to 11

Build Your Selfie Booth

JavaScriptCSSUI designCanva

Students coded a working photo booth that runs in the browser: live camera, filters, a 3-2-1 countdown and a printable 3-photo strip. Then they designed their own props and made the whole booth their own.

  • Turning on a camera with getUserMedia
  • CSS filters that recolor every pixel
  • Timers with setTimeout
  • Saving a photo with canvas
  • Designing transparent PNG props
  • Writing one clear prompt for an AI app builder

Standards covered

  • CSTA 3A-AP-16Develop computational artifacts for personal expression, using events to start instructions.
  • CSTA 2-AP-11Create clearly named variables and perform operations on their values.
  • CSTA 2-AP-17Systematically test and refine programs.
  • ISTE 1.6bCreate original works or responsibly repurpose digital resources into new creations.
CreativX Lab · Animation + AI · Ages 13 and up

Bring Your Story to Life

AnimationAI motion captureVideo editing

Students wrote a story, designed a character with AI, then filmed themselves acting out the big move. AI motion capture made the character copy them. They added a world, narrated it and premiered their films on the big screen.

  • Storyboarding a beginning, problem and ending
  • Prompting for character design
  • Motion capture from their own video
  • Green screen and chroma key
  • Editing, narration and music
  • Original work and why it matters online

Standards covered

  • CSTA 2-AP-12Design and iteratively develop programs and media.
  • ISTE 1.6bCreate original works or responsibly repurpose digital resources into new creations.
  • CSTA 3A-IC-24Evaluate the ways computing impacts personal, ethical, social and cultural practices.
  • ISTE 1.4aUse a deliberate design process to generate ideas and solve authentic problems.
CreativX Lab × Georgia Tech College of Engineering · NextGen Tech Collective

Code the Culture

CircuitsMusic techMakey Makey

We ran this lab twice: with teens at the Best Buy Teen Tech Center, and with students under 11 at NextGen Tech Collective. Here is one student's beat from the workshop. Students turned bananas, pencils, foil and everyday objects into working circuits, then used them to trigger drum sounds and build their own beats, bar by bar. Every beat is data: 8 sounds across 16 steps, each one a 1 or a 0. Press play to hear what they made.

  • How circuits and conductivity work
  • Hardware that sends input to software
  • Patterns stored as 1s and 0s
  • Arranging bars into a full track

The grid shows one bar of the drum pattern. Press play to hear the full track, melody loops included.

Watch the recap

Standards covered

  • CSTA 2-CS-02Design projects that combine hardware and software components.
  • CSTA 2-DA-07Represent data using multiple encoding schemes.
  • NCAS MU:Cr2.1Select, organize and develop musical ideas.

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