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Kickoff Week 1. Session Agenda 5:30 – Introductions/Icebreaker/Get Snack 6:00 – Introduction to Technovation 6:15 – Mobile Technology & Entrepreneurship.

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1 Kickoff Week 1

2 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

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

4 Meet your Instructor

5 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?

6 Icebreaker - Bingo

7 Technovation

8 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.

9 Technovation

10 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

11 The Challenge To develop a science education app

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

13 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

14 Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker – Name, Title BIO

15 Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker’s slides go here

16 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

17 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

18 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

19 Stand Up

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

21 Introduction to App Inventor

22 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

23 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

24 App Inventor: Designer

25 App Inventor: Blocks Editor

26 App Inventor: Emulator

27 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.

28 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.

29 Activity: Program and Hack HelloPurr

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

31 Technovation Syllabus www.technovationchallenge.org

32 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?

33 Technovation Challenge Google Group

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

35 Ongoing Offsite Activities Learn App Inventor Think about Science Education Apps


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