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.

1. There’s An App For
That!!!

2. Agenda
 Welcome – JD Hoye, President, NAF
 Overview of the Project
o Dr. Andy Rothstein, Chief Policy Advisor, NAF
o Mike Schmedlen, Director Worldwide Education, Lenovo
 And the Winners Are… Mobile App Demonstrations
o Apex High School AOIT
o Pathways to Technology AOIT
o Grover Cleveland High School AOIT
o AJ Moore High School AOIT
o Downtown Magnets AOIT/AOF
 Q&A

3. Welcome
JD Hoye
President, National Academy Foundation

4. 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

5. Apex High School
Apex NC
Teacher: Julie Oster
Students: John Boezeman, Louis
Le, Lena McCord, Lane Shoffner

6. Overview
 Description of organization
 Overview of functionality
 Target market analysis
 Marketing strategy
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7. Inspiration
 Idea suggested by Shop Local Raleigh
 Non-profit
 Useful to wide-range of consumers
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8. Challenges
 Time Commitments
 Meeting Organizations
 Technical Difficulties
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Demonstration
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12. Pathways to Technology
Magnet High School
Hartford, CT
Raul Vargas, Technology Teacher
Isamar Sola, Student
Hannah Nguyen, Student
Calvin Mahlstedt, Student
Bryce Fountain, Student
Darin Herrera, Student

13. 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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14. Programming Challenges
 Database
 Performance issues
 Eclipse IDE issues
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15. Creative and Technical Process
 Challenge was broken down into three areas:
o Programming Social Onion
o 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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16. Future Development
 Updates to user interface
 Add features
 Develop iOS, Windows Phone, and Blackberry
versions
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17. Grover Cleveland
High School AOIT
AndrewWoodbridge, Teacher
Carolina Cordovas, Elizabeth Paulino, & Juan Veloz, Student
Winners

18. Course Overview
 Double Period class for.AOIT Seniors
 We used app inventor and focused on development
process
 Each of the 14 companies developed
o Business Plan
o Three Apps
o Three Marketing Plans
o Three Half Page Ads
 42 apps total
 19 available in Google Play store
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19. App Proposal Process
 Students created mulltiple proposals that
included:
o Title and description
o Layout and functions
o Algorithm
 First App helped someone with a disability
 Second and third apps were student's choice
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20. App Development
 Students had a hard delivery date but set their
own schedules
 Each person had a different job
o App lead
o Programming lead
o Graphic lead
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21. 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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22. Takeaways and Future Apps
 Are the students going to continue to develop
apps?
 How can the business knowledge help them?
 What skills are transferable?
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23. AJ Moore Academy
Wanda Brown, Academy Director
Robert East, Student
Pete Baus, Student
Kiwi Software:
The Lenovo project

24. 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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25. 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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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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!
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29. Downtown Magnets High School
Los Angeles, CA
Academic Advisor - Samuel Dovlatian
Albert Alvarez Jeremy Chavez
Ivan Covarrubias Wai Sing Wong

30. 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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31. Challenges
 Developing an idea that would get
people to recycle.
 Recognizing our limitations.
Remotivating Recycling
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32. 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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33. 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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34. Where we can go…
 Social Dimension:
o Tracking overall individual progress
o 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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35. Q&A