Brad Zdenek Innovation Strategist January 2018 $100,000 Nittany AI Challenge 2018 Brad Zdenek Innovation Strategist January 2018

EdTech Network Partnering to drive innovation in education

Potential

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+ + + = Faculty Staff People Context Technology AI UnderGrad Students Graduate Students People PSU World Campus Higher Education + Context + Technology EdTech Partners AI + Innovation =

Three Phases Ideas Prototypes Minimal Viable Products

Support & Incentives 10 Best Ideas - $2,500 each 5 Best Prototypes - $5,000 each Best MVPs – Pool of $50,000

Support & Incentives AI Partners (Mentors, Access, Training) Google Cloud Machine Learning Amazon Web Services Machine Learning IBM Watson Microsoft Azure Machine Learning EdTech Partners (Data, Access, Context) Blackboard Inside Track Campus Management Discourse Analytics

Team Formation

Slack

What type of team? Team Lead Technical Lead  Subject Matter Lead

Timeline

December January February March April November 11 8 4 10 30 Design Thinking Workshops April 4 & 5 NAIC Ideas Due January 29 Idea Awards Announced February 5 Ideation at GEW Prototype Winners Announced March 29 Launch of NAIC at HackPSU Prototype Demos at Penn State Startup Week March 27

Announce & Demo MVPs at EdTech Engage Announce Grant Selection 20 May June July August September October MVP Demo  August 31 MVPs Due July 31 Announce & Demo MVPs at EdTech Engage Grant Review Announce Next NAIC Announce Grant Selection

https://edtechnetwork.psu.edu/challenge How Do You Start? https://edtechnetwork.psu.edu/challenge

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