The CAPS Excelerator course is designed to provide entrepreneurial students with resources and cross-disciplinary teams to develop their ideas from conceptualization through commercialization. The program will combine different areas of CAPS to accelerate the innovation process. Will Janz helped design the Excelerator website and logo and provides an update on deliverables including initial logo concepts and a website mockup, as well as an in-progress checklist.

1. Excelerator
The CAPS Excelerator course is designed for entrepreneurial
minded students seeking high-tech resources and cross-
disciplined teams to “Innovate” and “Accelerate” their ideas. It
will combine separate strands of CAPS and engage them in a
high speed process that takes an idea from conceptualization
through validation and production to commercialization.

2. Agenda
• About Us/Me
• Overview (Objective, target
audience, message, rationale)
• Competitor research
• Deliverables
• Checklist
• Responses & Suggestions
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3. About Me
• Name: Will Janz.
• Roll: Assisted with logo design and designed and hand-
coded the Excelerator website.
• Worked along side Otis L. in design.
• Fun-fact: Part of an unexpected fan-base for the show
My Little Pony; Friendship is Magic.
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4. Overview
• Objective
 To get the program known, spread the name, let people know
what’s going on and get students enrolled in for next year’s classes.
• Target audience
 Students in the Blue Valley school district, both in and not in CAPS
 The parents of said students
• Message
 Join the Exelerator program!
• Rationale
 We’re doing this to get Excelerator established and out there.
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5. Deliverables - Logos
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6. Deliverables - Website
Mockup
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7. Deliverables - Website
Large real-
estate in the
middle will
contain an
image sliding
widget. The
dark blue and
light blue
boxes will
contain a
Facebook and
Twitter
feed, respecti
vely.
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8. Checklist
• Compile mood boards (Sept. 23) – Will, complete
• Design concept logos (Sept. 30) – Design, complete
• Design website mockup (Oct. 20) – Will, complete
• Code base website (Oct. 31) – Will, complete
• Get peer review for logos (Nov. 20) – Otis, complete
• Approve course names (Dec. 7) – Design, in progress
• Approve final logo (Dec. 7) – Otis, in progress
• Approve final site design (Dec. 7) – Will, in progress
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9. RESPONSES/SUGGESTIONS
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10. Thank you!