Science Lab Diagram

So, after a couple of months of late night Skype conversations with my code writer in India, I have finally created my first app. It doesn't have the entertainment value of Star Wars Angry Birds nor the sweetness of Candy Crush, but I am happy with it, as a first go.

Science Lab Diagram was designed to be a useful aid to students and teachers. After marking many lab reports, it struck me that students can spend a long time drawing diagrams to help communicate a method. Some of these diagrams are done quite well, but take time. Others are not done well, and don't usually resemble the equipment that they are representing. Science Lab diagram which is now available for Android and iOS, consists of 40 pieces of equipment that can be re-sized, overlayed and rotated to allow the user to construct Laboratory diagrams. The diagrams can be labeled, including the use of superscript and subscript (which proved somewhat difficult with an iOS keyboard that doesn't have keys for this.) When the user has created a diagram they can save it as a PDF or an image file. They can then share it via email, Twitter or Facebook. I am not sure why you might want to share a diagram of a titration via Facebook, but if you want to you can. My thoughts are, that after creating a diagram to use in a lab report or similar a student would either copy the file from their device or email it to themselves to then copy and paste into the report.

As a Science teacher, I am often wanting to use a diagram as part of a lesson or an assessment piece. Now rather than searching the Web for a similar image, I can make them the way I need them. Well I think that it might be useful. I hope you do to. I will put out some updates to the app periodically to add more equipment, and I am sure that its value will increase over time.