This document describes the APPlied Club, which teaches high school students mobile app development skills. It started at one school with 10 students and created one app and one game. It has since expanded to include more clubs, meetups, game jams, and opportunities for students to gain work experience and jobs in app development. The club aims to expand further by creating game kits and a STEM core curriculum for mobile app and game development. It discusses successes, challenges, and goals to continue growing the program.

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Making Apps with
Students
Version 2.0

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Who Are We?

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What is APPlied Club?
• Mobile App Development
• After School
• High School Students
• Teaching Employable Skills

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Year One
• Patapsco High School
• 10 students 1st semester / 4 in 2nd
• Only after school
• 1 app, 1 game

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PHS Connect
Patriot Dash

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What Did We Learn?
• Order of Development matters
• Easily accessible programming
languages
• Great for teaching design thinking and
iteration

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Year Two
• More Clubs
• Badges
• Meetups
• Game Jams
• Demand for Jobs

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More Clubs
• Summer Institute
• 5 Attempted Clubs at start
• 2 active clubs
• What is the value of more clubs?

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Badges
• Earn badges for completing Challenges
on APPliedClub.org
• Earn badges for attending events

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Meetups
• December Meetup
• 5 schools, 1 international
• Guest Speakers
• School App Workshop

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Meetups

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Game Jams
• Intensive day long events
• Get more accomplished
• BYODevice
• A collaborative event
• Students work on individual pieces
that are combined into one product
demo at the end of the day

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Demand for Jobs
• Students are being offered paying jobs
to work on for clients
• STEM Engine
• Students work for real clients to
earn paychecks or scholarship
money

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• Work program offered through the Digital Harbor Foundation
• Students with skill sets in web or mobile development
• Gain work experience by building real projects for clients
• Students receive payment for the work that they do, which can be
banked into a scholarship account for each individual

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Problem Areas
• Onboarding new students in the middle or end of
projects
• How do we expand w/out physically being there?
• Technical Issues
• Getting (and keeping) the software on
computers
• Valuable websites blocked

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Student Work

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Student Work

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Student Work

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Teacher Buy-In
• Come to the launch parties
• Play the game
• Compliment the students

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Teacher Buy-In
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System Buy-In
• Summer Institute, initiated by Director
of STEM for BCPS
• Superintendent of BCPS, Dr. Dance
visits

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System Buy-In

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Year 3 Goals
• Maintain at least the clubs that we have currently
• Game Kits
• Everything you need, just add your own flair to
submit to app store
• Code tutorials and game artwork
• Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
• Allow non-technical teachers and their class or
individual students to create games

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• STEM Core
• Common Core Aligned STEM Curriculum
• Mobile Game Development
• Mobile App Development
• Offered through Digital Harbor Foundation
• Coming Soon!

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Going Forward
• Our passion project led us to new jobs
• DHF & APPlied Club are a great
partnership
• Expansion is possible

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Resources
• APPliedClub.org
• STEMCore.com
• STEMEngine.org
• Meetup.com/EdTechBaltimore

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Questions?