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