MIT student David Sukhin's "Snow Day Calculator" continues to grow in popularity. The website and app asks users to put in their zip code, details about their school and how many snow days the ...

Kids input a few pieces of info: ZIP code, the number of snow days to date, and the type of school (urban public, rural public, boarding, etc.). The calculator then returns the odds of an ...

Sukhin's calculator is simple to use. Kids input a few pieces of info: ZIP code, the number of snow days to date, and the type of school (urban public, rural public, boarding, etc.).

MIT’s project is part of the Center for Mobile Learning, which announced several months ago that it would be taking over App Inventor when Google shut down the service on December 31, 2011.

MIT student David Sukhin, who is behind the Snow Day Calculator that helps predict school closings, poses for a photo, in Cambridge. Like so many inventions, the calculator — which started out online ...