Technovation Challenge Fall 2012

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Hack Day (App Inventor Training) Information


You will attend a Hack Day with your team where you will learn how to program using App Inventor. The Hack Day curriculum takes approximately 8 hours to complete.

Mentors can help arrange Hack Day through contacts in local colleges and universities or find another suitable venue. Undergraduate and graduate computer science students can volunteer for the event. Teachers can also help to arrange Hack Day. 

Please post comments about Hack Day below.

Virtual Hack Day:

Teams without access to nearby colleges or universities can complete Hack Day as a series of online tutorials using the tutorial instructions, questions, and PowerPoint presentations provided below.

WHAT TO BRING TO HACK DAY:

 

Organizing Hack Day?  First, check out our Hack Day Guidelines which will give you step-by-step instructions and tips to help you plan the event. Next, download the Hack Day PowerPoint, which introduces the Technovation program, presents the first set of tutorials, and explains the computer science concepts behind each lesson.

Task Discussion


  • Swetha said:

    Hi All,

    We had our Hack day this weekend.  It was exciting to meet the girls and work on the Tutorials.  Looking forward to the weekly visits on Thursdays at AMSA school.  

    They are still looking for mentors. So if any of you are interested in mentoring at AMSA school in Marlborough, please let me know.  

     

     

    on Jan. 7, 2013, 12:54 p.m.

    JennaB said:

    It was really exciting so see so many badges awarded this weekend! Great work!

    on Jan. 7, 2013, 12:58 p.m. in reply to Swetha

    JennaB said:

    Do you have any photos to share of the event? We would love to see everyone in action!

    on Jan. 8, 2013, 4:26 p.m. in reply to JennaB

    Swetha said:

    Kelly did take some pictures of each group.  But she also needed to get consent from the parents to upload pictures.  I am guessing once we have that I can check with her about the pics.  

    on Jan. 8, 2013, 4:38 p.m. in reply to JennaB

    Elaine Mistretta said:

    Isnt that the release that they signed from Technovation "Release and Authorization to use Student Image" Elaine Mistretta Haverhill High School Haverhill, MA On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 4:38 PM, swethasubu <
    on Jan. 8, 2013, 4:51 p.m. in reply to Swetha

    Swetha said:

    I wasn't aware of that.  This is my first time as a mentor.  I will check with Kelly and take pics in the future weekly visits.

    on Jan. 8, 2013, 5:14 p.m. in reply to Elaine Mistretta

  • aneesa jamal said:

    Hi all

    We held Hack Day over here at Al Qamar Academy in Chennai. We could only get to finish Crystal Ball as this was the first introduction to any sort of programming for these girls.  We started from explaining what an "application" is. But the girls picked up very fast and thoroughly enjoyed it.  We invited a "field expert" in android application come over and conduct the training.

    Will be moving on to the other tutorials this week once they finish practising a little more with this.

    Pics at the school website at http://www.alqamaracademy.in/home/latest-news/girlslearnbasicsofmobileappprogramming

    on Jan. 7, 2013, 12:16 p.m.

    TahaniZ said:

    Thank you for sharing Aneesa! This is so awesome, I'm glad the girls enjoyed programming with app inventor. I loved the pictures too :) I am so excited to hear more about their progress in the future!

    Tahani

    on Jan. 7, 2013, 12:34 p.m. in reply to aneesa jamal

  • JennaB said:

    Excited to announce a Hack Day in Santos, Brazil, on January 15th!!! 

    There is a note about the program in the school website home page: http://www.universitasensinomedio.com.br/universitas/

     
    Will post updates and photos : )

    on Jan. 2, 2013, 2:55 p.m.

    annalise said:

    That's so exciting, Jenna-- thanks for setting that up! We can't wait to see photos!

    on Jan. 4, 2013, 1:57 p.m. in reply to JennaB

    Elaine Mistretta said:

    Pics of our Mobil App Boot Camp on National CS week was in the local paper. When I can open the email I will post pics. We have another hack day scheduled for next Friday elaine mistretta Haverhill, MA On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, annalise <
    on Jan. 4, 2013, 8:39 p.m. in reply to annalise

    JennaB said:

    Congratulations! Can't wait to see the pictures!

    on Jan. 7, 2013, 11:51 a.m. in reply to Elaine Mistretta

  • Elaine Mistretta said:

    Would anyone like to have a team come to Haverhill, MA to do a January Hack day. We did a hack day but was not able to use app inventor- the server was down and it was impossible to use it that particular day. We will have to hold further hack days after school in January. We have plenty of computers to support a visiting team doing it with us.

    on Dec. 28, 2012, 4:05 p.m.

  • aneesa jamal said:

    Hi

    Just curious if there are any other teams in Chennai, India. I'm trying to set up a Hack Day, and if there are other teams, we could combine up.

    Regards

     

    Aneesa Jamal

    on Dec. 21, 2012, 1:58 a.m.

  • annalise said:

    NEW VERSION OF HACK DAY POWERPOINT JUST UPLOADED

    Hi all,

    I just made some updates to the Hack Day PowerPoint (link above). Thanks and enjoy your Hack Days!

    AnnaLise

    on Dec. 14, 2012, 3:30 p.m.

  • Kelly Powers said:

    The AMSA Charter School will host a hack day on Saturday, January 5th from 10am - 3pm.

    The Tutorials will be taught by the Computer Science teachers at the Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School.

    Kelly

    on Dec. 5, 2012, 11:03 p.m.

    TahaniZ said:

    That's great! Thank you for sharing Kelly!

    Tahani

    on Dec. 6, 2012, 10:24 a.m. in reply to Kelly Powers

    mvergara said:

    Where is AMSA Charter School?
    on Dec. 7, 2012, 2:22 p.m. in reply to Kelly Powers

    Kelly Powers said:

    Hello, AMSA is in Marlborough, MA Kelly P On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:22 PM, mvergara <
    on Dec. 9, 2012, 8:08 p.m. in reply to mvergara

  • Lycée Français de San Francisco said:

    Hello,

     

    I'm trying to print the tutorials but is it possible all the link go to the crystal ball?

     

    thank you to have a look on this,

    Eve Chambon

    on Dec. 4, 2012, 10:13 p.m.

    Naomi said:

    Hi Eve, I can retrieve the crystal ball image from the link (I attached it). Do you need anything else? Naomi On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 7:13 PM, EveAnton <
    on Dec. 5, 2012, 12:05 a.m. in reply to Lycée Français de San Francisco

    TahaniZ said:

    Hi Eve,

    Thank you for catching that! I just checked, and it seems like you are rigjht, all the links go to the crystal ball tutorial. We will work on this to fix it, and will let you know when the links are ready!

    Thank you for your patience.

    Tahani

    on Dec. 5, 2012, 11:56 a.m. in reply to Naomi

    TahaniZ said:

    Hi Eve,

    The tutorials that are available right now, actually take you to a 13 pages long pdf document, and include all the tutorials. So if you are looking to print out the tutorials, you can just print that one. We will make this more clear, but you should already have access to all the tutorials here.

    Tahani

    on Dec. 5, 2012, 2:07 p.m. in reply to TahaniZ