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Kickoff Week 1
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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
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Objectives Introductions - Bingo Technovation Program Overview Mobile Technology Landscape Introduce Project Management Programming Activity Technovation Resources
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Meet your Instructor
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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?
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Icebreaker - Bingo
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Technovation
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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.
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Technovation
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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
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The Challenge To develop a science education app
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Bay Area Regional Pitch Event – April 28 National Pitch Night – May 3 Technovation Challenge
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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
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Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker – Name, Title BIO
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Mobile Tech & Entrepreneurship Speaker’s slides go here
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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
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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
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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
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Stand Up
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More Project Management Tools Find more helpful project management tools in your team’s Technovation Workspace on Google Docs
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Introduction to App Inventor
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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
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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
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App Inventor: Designer
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App Inventor: Blocks Editor
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App Inventor: Emulator
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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.
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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.
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Activity: Program and Hack HelloPurr
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Pair Programming Driver – hands on keyboard & mouse Navigator – tells driver what to do Switch every 5-10 minutes Two brains are better than one
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Technovation Syllabus www.technovationchallenge.org
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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?
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Technovation Challenge Google Group
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Share with us on Twitter & Facebook Tweet us: @_technovation_ #technovation Like us on Facebook: Technovation Challenge
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Ongoing Offsite Activities Learn App Inventor Think about Science Education Apps
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