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Kickoff

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.

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Kickoff

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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. 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.

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

  13. Judging Criteria To win a competition you must know what you are being judged on! 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

  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 handlerstand 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. TechnovationSyllabus 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 onTwitter & 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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