Kickoff Week 1

Session Agenda 5:30 – Introductions/Icebreaker/Get Snack 6:00 – Introduction to Technovation 6:15 – Mobile Technology & Entrepreneurship 6:45 – Intro to Project Management 7:00 – Activity: HelloPurr 7:25 – Technovation Resources

Objectives Introductions - Bingo Technovation Program Overview Mobile Technology Landscape Introduce Project Management Programming Activity Technovation Resources

Meet your Instructor

Meet your Mentor Share What’s your name? What school do you go to (or company do you work for) Why are you excited about the Technovation Challenge?

Icebreaker - Bingo

Technovation

How are we going to do that? By teaching you a combination of entrepreneurship, design thinking and programming. What is an App? Short for application. It is another word for program. A mobile app is a program that you use on a phone.

Technovation

Class Rules Respect yourself, each other, & materials No texting, no phone calls No surfing the web During instruction, ALL laptops closed Pay attention and don’t be disruptive Attendance policy – 1 absence allowed

The Challenge To develop a science education app

Bay Area Regional Pitch Event – April 28 National Pitch Night – May 3 Technovation Challenge

To win a competition you must know what you are being judged on! Judging Criteria Find a copy of the judging criteria in your Technovation Workspace on Google Docs

Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker – Name, Title BIO

Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker’s slides go here

Entrepreneurship Objectives & ViewsSmall Business OwnerEntrepreneur Primary Motivationto make a livingto make a change and impact Personal Financial Goal regular incomeexit value of company Career Objectiveself-employmentfinancial freedom Financing StrategySBA or bank loansinvestors Business Strategycreating more salesproviding value View of Assetsreal estate and inventoryemployees and customers Risk-Taking Profilestabilitywilling to fail Employee Compensation market rate or belowwill pay for top talent Work Environmentextension of owner’s homefast-paced and growth focused Investment Profilemain owner of companyinvolvement in different businesses Daily Actionsday-to-day managerstrategy, growth, and collaboration Work Stylelong-term, repetitive tasksshort-term, serial innovator/inventor

Introduction to Project Management Plan what needs to be done and how long you will work on it Communicate with the team and keep everyone updated on progress Track all the information and feedback of the project and record the history

Project Management Tools Scrum – a tool to keep track of what you are: planning to do are doing have done Stand Up – a method of communication so team stays on the same page throughout the program

Stand Up

More Project Management Tools Find more helpful project management tools in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs

Introduction to App Inventor

Event-driven Programming An event is an action that occurs outside the program, that the program needs to handle Examples:  key presses  mouse clicks Event handlers

Activity: Be a Phone App 1 Volunteer to be the interface (a button) 1 Volunteer to be an event handler stand behind your interface element 1 Volunteer to be the user Teacher will be the phone

App Inventor: Designer

App Inventor: Blocks Editor

App Inventor: Emulator

Set-up Wireless  Click on Settings App  Select Wireless & networks  Select Wi-Fi settings  Select Wi-Fi. A green check will appear by it.  Select Wi-Fi settings. Choose the network and password (if there is one) written on the board.

Phone Settings for Development Click on the Settings App Select Applications. This will open a new page. Select "Unknown sources". A green check will appear by it. Select Development. This will open a new page. Select "USB debugging". A green check will appear. Select "Stay awake". A green check will appear. Hit back button until back at Settings screen.

Activity: Program and Hack HelloPurr

Pair Programming Driver – hands on keyboard & mouse Navigator – tells driver what to do Switch every 5-10 minutes Two brains are better than one

Technovation Syllabus

Weekly Reflections What did your team like about this week? What challenges did your team have this week? Anything else your team would like to share?

Technovation Challenge Google Group

Share with us on Twitter & Facebook Tweet #technovation Like us on Facebook: Technovation Challenge

Ongoing Offsite Activities Learn App Inventor Think about Science Education Apps