Hi, This is my Prototype assignment. Slides 2-4 are relevant. The remaining slides are the previous assignment should you need the background information. KGA

1. Notes for Reviewer
This Powerpoint has all the
assignments.
For the Prototype assignment
look at slides 2-4

2. Problem Statement:
"Chris Stakeholder, 22 year old recently employed Computer
Science grad who had headhunters calling him, represents an
amazing success story because he used his 4 years to study,
and develop applicable work skills and a professional network,
plus overcame his family’s hardships to his benefit
needs a way
to share his experiences/ his choices
because
Chris wants to help maximize every student's success in
transitioning from school to career"
Prototype 1
My stakeholder Chris writes a book allowing others to
understand and follow the choices that made him
career ready upon graduation. He gives the keys to
his success about how he knowingly selected his
college, made choices to take key internships, built his
professional network, and was not seduced by a
student life style .
This book is a how-to for the entire College to Career
Transition eco-system.
Next: Develop Digital Media to Support Book Content

3. Problem Statement:
Chris, 22 year old recently employed Computer Science grad who
had headhunters calling him, represents an amazing success story
because he used his 4 years to study, and develop applicable work
skills and a professional network, plus overcame his family’s
hardships to his benefit
needs a way
to share his experiences/ his choices
because
Chris wants to help maximize every student's success in transitioning
from school to career"
Prototype 2
Chris Stakeholder gives a TEDx talk about his choices
that made him career ready upon graduation. Chris
knowingly selected his college, made choices
regarding internships, built his network, and was not
seduced by the distractions of the student life style .
Next: Create a website with the Career Ready scores
for colleges.
Chris Stakeholder

4. Prototype1 Prototype2
Tested Ideas
Test Subjects:
3 people +
Chris Stakeholder
They liked the book the
best. But they felt starting
with a blog was realistic.
Great idea but they felt it
would be too hard to
achieve as a first step. How
big is the impact? TEDx has
gotten so many speakers.
Next Steps
Start a blog and then when
there is traction, write a
book
(I would prototype this
idea next)
Try to do this after the blog
Chris, Stakeholder
Evaluation and Recommendation

5. Notes for Ideate Reviewer
This following 8 slides are for Ideat
Moved away from Prezi because
people were having issues grading

6. Problem Statement:
"Chris, 22 year old recently employed Computer
Science grad who had headhunters calling him,
represents an amazing success story because he used
his 4 years to study, and develop applicable work
skills and a professional network, plus overcame his
family’s hardships to his benefit
needs a way
to share his experiences/ his choices
because
Chris wants to help maximize every student's success
in transitioning from school to career"

7. Practical
• Write a blog
• Join alumni group and
create subcommittee
• Create a website
• Teacher and admin
training
Favorite
• Everything related to
digitally communicating the
message: video, youtube,
blogging, etc.
• Write a book and
associated book tour
• Move the Educator, Media,
Parent mantra from go to
college to be “Career
Ready” ; too much noise
about not going to school
(not viable for the majority)
• Get with GRIT people as
living proof of GRIT
• Speak at TED
• how and what we teach is
made relevant to how we
work
Disruptive
• Do a Snowden – highlight
the cause in a radical way
• Hack universities data on
outcomes, get the Obama
data team to crunch to
demonstrate the disconnect
• Enlist consumers to demand
refunds for colleges that
don’t provide the transition
from college to career
• Get a case before the
supreme court of deceptive
product sale
• Teach Social and Emotional
Intelligence to every student
• Race to the Top funds – use
competitive RFP process a la
Obama’s RTTT – best ideas
get funded by government.
Summary of Ideas (go see all pages)

8. 50 plus ideas
1. Without any Money (but time)
2. Join Alumni group or other University group that would allow Chris to
communicate the rubric for success (his experience)
3. Develop youtube video.
4. Get involved in Public Policy
5. Get involved in the Education Reform movement
6. Write a blog
7. Help middle schoolers understand how they need to plan for their future;
decisions they make
8. Meet with employers and discuss how they can provide more internships and
opportunities to develop softskills
9. Speak at School Events: Middle School, HS, Colleges
10. Speak at TED, speak anywhere
11. Go work for an organization that promotes internships
12. Have his father go on the speaking circuit to explain how to get one’s child to be
successful; non helicoptering parent.
13. Pray it gets resolved
14. Obvious Solutions
15. Become a role model for other students
1-15

9. 50 plus ideas
1. Enlist headhunters
2. Enlist Employers
3. Enlist Teachers
4. Enlist Parents
5. Mentor a student (s)
6. how and what we teach is made relevant to how we work
7. 5-year old child approach
8. Work with parents so they understand their role in supporting their children
9. Make a picture book
10.Use a megaphone in front of the school, be loud
11.Come to the playground and tell us.
12.Make signs, pamphlets and distribute
13.Create a toy or series of games for children on skills
14.Video game teaching them the issue and skills to transition; all ages
15.Unlimited Budget
16-30

10. 1. Develop a website /service that has the tools for school to career transition that includes all stakeholders
2. Create a no more helicoptering parent site. Have others who have been successful blog/write too
3. Develop a series of videos for schools on how to be successful to be watched by educators and students
4. Write a book
5. Study Social and Emotional Intelligence so he can help others be equally self aware
6. Move the Educator, Media, Parent montra from go to college to be “Career Ready” ; too much noise about
not going to school (not viable for the majority. )
7. Become an activist by impacting national beliefs that every student needs 3 internships before graduation
(or some standard) that becomes a national belief (similar to M Obama effort on nutrition)
8. Get student to write their resume in middle school and onward
9. Decrease the noise about no college needed but why you need it to be successful when combined with
work
10.Create an internship board/website for students and employers.
11.Develop social/emotional solutions for students
12.Help career placement offices be more relevant thru a product offering/consulting
13.Use existing channels to bottle Chris’ success:
14.Create Teacher and workplace connections with students and their parents. Incorporate parents and their
jobs into the classroom starting in K and continuing thru High School
15.Build a social network that connects Chris like examples to students directly
50 plus ideas
31-45

11. 50 plus ideas
1. Grit (http://bit.ly/GRITduckworth )and the” Chris Method” combined to achieve change
2. Create an online course that includes the Chris Method that is part of every MOOC class
3. PSA – run messaging for the Chris Method
4. Create a student test that makes the “Chris method” the rubric and have students take it
starting in middle school.
5. Do a Snowden – highlight the cause in a radical way
6. Hack universities data on outcomes, get the Obama data team to crunch to demonstrate
the disconnect
7. Enlist consumers to demand refunds for colleges that don’t provide the transition from
college to career
8. Get a case before the supreme court of deceptive product sale
9. Teach Social and Emotional Intelligence to every student
10.Race to the Top funds – use competitive RFP process a la Obama’s RTTT – best ideas get
funded by government.
46 -55

12. • Recent Spring
Undergraduate in
Computer Science
• Youngest of 5. Highly
competitive with #4
sibling.
• 3 eldest siblings are
alcoholics
• Father has provide
excellent life skills and set
expectations
• Very personable. Very
self-assured.
• Highly self-directed
• Socioeconomic: middle
• Demo: male, white, 23
• Gifted
• High Social and Emotional
Intelligence
• ”I am an exception….my field is an exception…I feel as if I am an exception”
• “I made choices…I am more prepared than other graduating students.”
• “Chose my school because I heard it would made me job ready”
• “I do have certain things that helped… my personality...my choice to be in technology...to get
experience *while in school+.”
• “School gave me all my foundations. Programmer lingo and concepts, it prepared me to talk the
language of computer science. I only use it (the language) for interviews.”
• “I use this knowledge now to help self-taught programmers…they write code that isn’t tight.”
• “I have worked since I am 15.”
• “I hate cubicles…lots of walls. Not the kind of experience I wanted”.
• “I wanted a job that was more fun than a coffee shop. “
• “At Walmart people were always interrupting me and in accounting too.”
• “I don’t like to be interrupted. It isn’t my style; I like to wear headphones when I work”.
• “Looking at the job boards, I noticed I needed to get a certain level of experience”.
• “I didn’t really have anything to do at the library job so I decide I should get the experience “
• “I wanted to get my hands wet as soon as possible”.
• “Getting programming experience was really going to help me out.
• ”I got a job right away when I graduated. I had recruiters that I knew.
• “There needs to be real work experience for students. “
• “My father always was pushing me to do things at an early age. He taught me to haggle at flea
markets.”
• “My father treated me like one of the guys. My father gave me the confidence…I am the
youngest of five.
•
• “My three older *siblings+ went to school for too long and never graduated.
• “My father said he would pay for college but I had to finish in 4 years….I had to carry the
rest…about $900 per month.”
• “Turning point was when I was working for the University library and I was bored. I looked at
the job board and found a job for a web developer”
• “My father was nervous that I’d leave the library job. But I’d get paid more….went from $15 to
$18 per hour doing what I wanted… programming”.
• “After those two startups I decide to do my own startup… my company had a name, a logo,
everything. Really I was hired as a developer….got paid for stuff I did on the weekend.”
• “I am still the youngest person at work…have been for 5 years I started early and I now know
so many people. Get in on the ground floor”.
• I got a cool job in big data with an Ivy University and a National Lab. Taking a year off….then will
start grad school with my new job…free...”
• “My GPA was 3.97….. It was very important to me….no one ask for it…well it was on my
resume…but it isn’t any longer.”
• Chose city school so he could find his own way and avoid partying
• Chose not to be like his brothers and friends
• Actively sought meaningful work so he would have experience upon graduation.
• Made choices based on gaining “experience” and not money.
• Consulted with his father.
• Never used any of the school services/counseling to find work.
• Figured out the best path for himself to realize the investment in his education.
• Set financial expectations for all those hiring him – paid internships.
• Built a network knowingly while in school.
• Constantly evaluating his decisions against internal barometer.
SAY – see Slide 2 to read quotes
DO
Think
Feel
• He feels exceptional in what he has been able to
achieve versus everyone he has met
• He know#4 drives himself
• Nothing isn’t attainable
• He is sad #1, #2,#3 and friends couldn’t figure it
out
• He learned a lot working for startups ; business
models
• He controls his environment so he can be
successful
• “It has been fun. It has been stressful. ”
• Tired
• Made good choices
• Avoided bad choices and people
• Competitive
• Proud
• Loves Father
Stakeholder
INSIGHTS
• He is very unusual in his ability to determine the best path to graduate with the best job
• His family life impacted him greatly. Loser brothers. Guiding Father. Competition with sister
• Knowingly building a network while in college is very smart .

13. • ”I am an exception….my field is an exception…I feel as if I am an exception”
• “I made choices…I am more prepared than other graduating students.”
• “Chose my school because I heard it would made me job ready”
• “I do have certain things that helped… my personality...my choice to be in technology...to get experience *while in school+.”
• “School gave me all my foundations. Programmer lingo and concepts, it prepared me to talk the language of computer science. I only use it (the
language) for interviews.”
• “I use this knowledge now to help self-taught programmers…they write code that isn’t tight.”
• “I have worked since I am 15.”
• “I hate cubicles…lots of walls. Not the kind of experience I wanted”.
• “I wanted a job that was more fun than a coffee shop. “
• “At Walmart people were always interrupting me and in accounting too.”
• “I don’t like to be interrupted. It isn’t my style; I like to wear headphones when I work”.
• “Looking at the job boards, I noticed I needed to get a certain level of experience”.
• “I didn’t really have anything to do at the library job so I decide I should get the experience “
• “I wanted to get my hands wet as soon as possible”.
• “Getting programming experience was really going to help me out.
• ”I got a job right away when I graduated. I had recruiters that I knew.
• “There needs to be real work experience for students. “
• “My father always was pushing me to do things at an early age. He taught me to haggle at flea markets.”
• “My father treated me like one of the guys. My father gave me the confidence…I am the youngest of five.
•
• “My three older *siblings+ went to school for too long and never graduated.
• “My father said he would pay for college but I had to finish in 4 years….I had to carry the rest…about $900 per month.”
• “Turning point was when I was working for the University library and I was bored. I looked at the job board and found a job for a web
developer”
• “My father was nervous that I’d leave the library job. But I’d get paid more….went from $15 to $18 per hour doing what I wanted…
programming”.
• “After those two startups I decide to do my own startup… my company had a name, a logo, everything. Really I was hired as a developer….got
paid for stuff I did on the weekend.”
• “I am still the youngest person at work…have been for 5 years I started early and I now know so many people. Get in on the ground floor”.
• I got a cool job in big data with an Ivy University and a National Lab. Taking a year off….then will start grad school with my new job…free...”
• “My GPA was 3.97….. It was very important to me….no one ask for it…well it was on my resume…but it isn’t any longer.”
SAY

14. • Chose city school so he could find his own way and avoid partying
• Chose not to be like his brothers and friends
• Actively sought meaningful work so he would have experience upon graduation.
• Made choices based on gaining “experience” and not money.
• Consulted with his father.
• Never used any of the school services/counseling to find work.
• Figured out the best path for himself to realize the investment in his education.
• Set financial expectations for all those hiring him – paid internships.
• Built a network knowingly while in school.
• Constantly evaluating his decisions against internal barometer.
DO
INSIGHTS
• He is very unusual in his ability to determine the best path to graduate with the best
job
• His family life impacted him greatly. Loser brothers. Guiding Father. Competition
with sister
• Knowingly building a network while in college is very smart .
• Knowling got a job.
• He wants to give back but has no clue