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Watch the i Dare u app demo video!
Technovation is a global competition where teams of up to 5 girls create a mobile device application with a focus on social justice
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Watch the i Dare u pitch video!
Students also create a business model and plan to market their application, a video to pitch their venture and another video to demo their app
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Mr. Shum is our technology expert this year who helped the students integrate their app with our SQL database using PHP (programming language)
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Mr. Shum showing the students how to connect to their app to the MySQL database
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Interfacing the mobile app with the SQL database was a difficult step
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This is Mr. Livingstone who is our business mentor. He is helping the students come up with a working business model and a business plan
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What good is the best app in the world unless it also has a great marketing plan?
This is an example of connecting experts to students
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Mr. Livingstone is sharing his expert knowledge on business to the students involved in Technovation
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Consider becoming a mentor!
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The students are preparing cue cards to use when filming the 2 minute pitch video
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Cue card production
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Technovation was a huge project and a big part of the learning is for students to figure out how to manage such a project
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The expert mentors and Mr. Chow never told the students what to do, we only helped them to look at all sides of a decision and let them chose their own path
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In addition to acquiring all the programming and business skills, students learned to manage a big project and plan ahead, set their own deadlines
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Of course technology is not limited to programming skills, the students used computer aided design (CAD), vector graphic editors and the laser cutter to make their own t-shirts :)
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STEAM / Technovation - they made this logo for their app then used a vector graphic editing program to produce it on the laser to iron it onto a t-shirt
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So many skills needed to pull off Technovation!
From programming, to graphical editing to business
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Making our own t-shirts came in at a cost of about $6 and was a lot of fun giving us full control of what we wanted it to look like!
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Meeting at SFU to make the pitch to a panel of industry experts. Last minute tweaks and practice for the pitch
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Regional pitch event at SFU
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Here they are making the pitch in front of a diverse group of industry experts, looking good in the t-shirts!
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The girls attended several workshops hosted by SFU over the course of the year … the last one they attended was a really good one on how to make a venture pitch, I learned something too!
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Making the pitch
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Making the pitch
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They fed us a good lunch which always helps :)
We are waiting to enter the theater where they will announce the results
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We had to make a post too… programming the mobile app, writing the business plan, making the videos were the main parts … there were many other smaller tasks to complete
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We thought we had something because the judges spoke about our use of SQL and various mobile device features that we used
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They didn’t speak about anyone else’s app in such high regard
But it wasn’t the case this year, maybe next :)
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This is Daniela Abasi who is our liaison at SFU Faculty of Applied Science which hosted the local Technovation pitch and supported us with various workshops. Hugh is our business mentor this year