there’s an app for that
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Five Academies of Information Technology took part in a pilot mobile app development program this year. Share in the excitement as the top student teams from across the country present their creations. This program was launched in partnership with Lenovo.TRANSCRIPT
There’s An App For That!!!
Agenda
Welcome – JD Hoye, President, NAF Overview of the Project
o Dr. Andy Rothstein, Chief Policy Advisor, NAFo Mike Schmedlen, Director Worldwide Education, Lenovo
And the Winners Are… Mobile App Demonstrationso Apex High School AOITo Pathways to Technology AOITo Grover Cleveland High School AOITo AJ Moore High School AOIT
o Downtown Magnets AOIT/AOF
Q & A
Welcome
JD HoyePresident, National Academy Foundation
Overview
The Lenovo/NAF Mobile App Project
o Dr. Andy Rothstein, Special Advisor Education Policy, National Academy Foundation
o Mike Schmedlen, Director of Worldwide Education, Lenovo
Apex High SchoolApex NC
Teacher: Julie OsterStudents: John Boezeman, Louis Le, Lena McCord, Lane Shoffner
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Overview
Description of organization
Overview of functionality
Target market analysis
Marketing strategy
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Inspiration
Idea suggested by Shop Local Raleigh
Non-profit
Useful to wide-range of consumers
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Challenges
Time Commitments
Meeting Organizations
Technical Difficulties
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Process
Search for ideas with community benefits
Decided on Shop-Local Raleigh
Planned meetings to check up on process
Worked out app design and functionality
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Future
John Boezeman
o Continue developing applications
Louis Le
o Continue app development as a hobby
Lane Shoffner
o No further interest in app development
Lena McCord
o Interested in using apps for social media and marketing
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Demonstration
Pathways to Technology Magnet High School
Hartford, CT
Raul Vargas, Technology TeacherIsamar Sola, StudentHannah Nguyen, StudentCalvin Mahlstedt, StudentBryce Fountain, StudentDarin Herrera, Student
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Inspiration
Kathy McAfee – America’s Marketing Motivator
Problem – Maintaining network with business/personal contacts on mobile devices (50-5-10-2 Strategy)
Solution – Social Onion App
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Programming Challenges
Database Performance issues Eclipse IDE issues
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Creative and Technical Process
Challenge was broken down into three areas:o Programming Social Oniono Advertising/Promotion (Website, ads, etc.)o Developing Company Image (Business Plan,
etc.) Everyone was assigned these tasks based
on their skill sets and abilities Deliverables were made to achieve these
tasks
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Future Development
Updates to user interface Add features Develop iOS, Windows Phone, and
Blackberry versions
Grover Cleveland High School AOIT
AndrewWoodbridge, TeacherCarolina Cordovas, Elizabeth Paulino, & Juan Veloz, Student Winners
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Course Overview
Double Period class for.AOIT Seniors We used app inventor and focused on
development process Each of the 14 companies developedo Business Plano Three Appso Three Marketing Planso Three Half Page Ads
42 apps total 19 available in Google Play store
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App Proposal Process
Students created mulltiple proposals that included:o Title and description o Layout and functionso Algorithm
First App helped someone with a disability Second and third apps were student's
choice
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App Development
Students had a hard delivery date but set their own schedules
Each person had a different jobo App leado Programming leado Graphic lead
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App Event
Held at SIBL in Manhattan Over 150 guests from business, industry,
education and General public Prizes in several different categories
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Takeaways and Future Apps
Are the students going to continue to develop apps?
How can the business knowledge help them?
What skills are transferable?
AJ Moore AcademyWanda Brown, Academy DirectorRobert East, StudentPete Baus, Student
Kiwi Software:The Lenovo project
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The Kiwi Pad overview
The Kiwi Pad combines a notepad app, and a text-to-speech/speech-to-text feature.
It gives you the option to write notes of any kind and then listen or view the notes later.
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Inspirations for the Kiwi Pad
The inspirations mainly came from the class of 2012 at A.J. Moore. The entire class was well prepared for college. However, the Kiwi Pad offers additional resources that could help them in college.
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Oh, the challenges!
The first major challenge; Time constraints, our class only had 24 hours of class time for the total project.
The second major challenge; Our prior coding knowledge was limited.
The third major challenge; Putting two apps together. We had the task of adding a Notepad app, with a Text-to-speech app.
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Creative, and Technical processes
The creative process combined a fruit, and a need for something useful for college. That inspired us to develop Kiwi Software and the Kiwi Pad.
Our technical process started with sketching a wireframe of our app. Then it moved into production phase, which took place in Adobe Flash. As of now we are working on the actual downloadable app, once it gets done, we plan on adding it to the market and seeing how it fares.
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Future Development?
We plan on continuing the app development. We are currently attending college studying computer networking and computer maintenance. We also hope for an opportunity to develop mobile apps in the future!
Downtown Magnets High School
Academic Advisor - Samuel DovlatianAlbert Alvarez
Ivan Covarrubias
Jeremy ChavezWai Sing Wong
Los Angeles, CA
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Inspiration
As of today, 88% of plastic bottles are not recycled in the United States.
We have identified the habit of not recycling as a serious problem in our community, and we have developed a potential solution to this problem…
Remotivating Recycling
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Challenges
Developing an idea that would get people to recycle.
Recognizing our limitations.
Remotivating Recycling
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Creative & Technical Process Group discussions to formulate
innovative ideas to spread the habit of recycling throughout the general public.
Use of Gimp to create images and Processing to program the application
Remotivating Recycling
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Future App Development
If given the opportunity and resources, we would love to see our app fully developed and available to the public on the Android market.
Remotivating Recycling
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Where we can go… Social Dimension:o Tracking overall individual progresso Tracking progress of communities
Reaching out to organizations Supporting different bottle types Different apps for encouraging
other aspects of being environmentally friendly
Remotivating Recycling
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Q & A