In order to prepare preservice teachers to help K-12 students develop grit and 21st century skills such as innovation, collaboration and problem-solving, they will be participating in an app-maker faire in their EDUC 444 course during Spring/Summer 2015. They will be asked to identify a problem in K-12 teaching and learning, and then develop an app to help solve that problem. The app will be published and they will be able to use the app with K-12 students and/or teachers. The funds from this grant will cover the costs of the needed software for developing the apps and publishing them to iTunes and Google Play Stores.