1 Mentor Lesson Guide Welcome to Technovation! Please read these page outlines independently before presenting each week’s PowerPoint slides to your students. The material here is meant as an introduction for you to confidently present our curriculum to its full capacity.
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Mentor Lesson Guide
Welcome to Technovation! Please read these page outlines independently before presenting
each week’s PowerPoint slides to your students. The material here is meant as an
introduction for you to confidently present our curriculum to its full capacity.
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Introduction to the Technovation Curriculum:
Thank you for joining Technovation and making a meaningful impact on the next
generation of women technology leaders. You are an instrumental part of our program. This
introduction will familiarize you with the materials comprising the twelve-week Technovation
curriculum so you may in turn teach it confidently to your class.
In the slide notes of every week’s presentation, there is a script that you can feel free to adapt
or use directly. Use stories from your personal experience as you present! Be creative, feel
free to make the curriculum your own and present it dynamically. Your students will have a
workbook with activities and more information that correspond to the presentations. The
workbook’s table of contents is included below for your own perusal and reference.
Student Workbook Table of Contents:
Week Content Pages
N/A Task List 4
N/A Judging Criterion 5
1 Brainstorming App Ideas 6
2 Example Surveys 7-8
2 Brainstorming Survey Questions 9
2 Design Survey and Summary 10
2 Plan for Completing Prototype 11
3 Usability Testing of Competitor Apps 12 – 13
3 Build Your Paper Prototype 14 – 17
4 Test Your Paper Prototype with Another
Team 18
5 Business Model 19
6 Business Plan Template 20
6 Design Your Business Plan 21 – 24
9 100-Word App Description 25
11 Pitch Feedback 26
N/A List of Terms 27
N/A Sketchbook 29 - 30
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Activities will be marked in the PowerPoint presentation with this image:
Activities have a suggested time listed on the PowerPoint slide. These are meant to actively
engage students in the lecture materials. The suggested time length is meant as a tool to
keep students engaged on the task at hand.
In addition to activities, each lesson has a “Think-Pair-Share.”
These will be marked in the PowerPoint presentation by this image:
Each “Think-Pair-Share” takes place after you have introduced a concept, and it allows them
the opportunity to think (or write), silently, for 30 seconds or so, pair with a partner to discuss,
and then share out with the class (choose 1 or 2 pairs to share what they discussed). These
Think-Pair-Shares are important because they make the lesson more interactive, as each
student is engaged in thinking about the material and discussing it with a partner. It also
allows students to formulate an answer in their mind before feeling the pressure of speaking it
out loud, which is helpful for shy students who might be reluctant to raise their hand. Each
“Think-Pair-Share” should take no more than 2-3 minutes. It’s meant to be a quick activity to
gauge everyone’s understanding of the material and allow for interactive discussion.
A Tour Through the Mentor One-Pagers
One of the first slides in the PowerPoints is titled “Agenda” with an outline of the topics
and activities for the lesson. Included in these mentor one-pagers under “Objectives,” the goal
(what students should walk away with) is highlighted. Following the “Objectives” section in the
one-pagers is the “Content” section. We advise you read, or skim, this before teaching the
week’s lesson. It will have some information on the coming lesson and its major points that
should be conveyed in presenting the materials to students. “Teaching Tips” is a brief run-
through on the activities and think-pair-shares in the coming lesson. The final section is “For
Next Week:” this is taken directly from the lesson’s PowerPoint and is reiterating what
students should be working on before next week’s lesson.
Overall, the one-pager is meant to be another form of support to you. Combined with
the suggested script in the PowerPoint presentation, and the PowerPoint itself, we hope you
feel prepared to mentor your team of girls and instill confidence in them as the next
generation of computer scientists and entrepreneurs. You are making an enormous
difference in their lives!
See page ___ of the workbook for detailed criteria
Think-‐Pair-‐Share
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Student Task List This is the syllabus for the course, to keep track of what needs to be done and when. Student should begin the tasks for each week in class with you and finished up as “homework,” as long as they are finished by the time you arrive the next week. Determine your class meeting schedule and write the dates in below. Week Date Tasks ✔ 0 Before class #1, please complete LadybugChase tutorial,
along with all other tutorials you didn’t finish at the Hack Day.
1 Finalize your app idea. Complete QuizMe tutorial before next class.
2 Create a survey and ask friends to take it. Outline a plan for completing prototype. Complete LotsOfCircles tutorial before next class.
3 Analyze competition by testing usability of similar apps. Finish paper prototype and bring to class next week. Get 20 responses on your survey. Complete Remember tutorial before next class.
4 Test your paper prototype and incorporate feedback from peers. Finish skeleton of screens in App Inventor.
5 Complete business model worksheet in Student Workbook. Continue to work on prototype-- implement all transitions in the blocks editor to help the user move from one screen to another.
6 Work on first half of your business plan. Continue to work on prototype-- work on the functionality of each individual screen, starting with the easiest components.
7 Work on second half of your business plan. Continue to work on prototype. (Don't spend time making it pretty, just work on the functionality for now.)
8 Work on PowerPoint presentation. Continue to work on prototype and test out its functionality with a target user.
9 Finish PowerPoint presentation. Write 100-word app description. Continue to work on prototype- beautify your app. Change background image of your screens and customize the buttons, fonts, and colors. Test it on a user again.
10 Finish remaining tasks. Take screenshots of your app to insert into your PPT slides.
11 Film your pitch and upload to YouTube. Finish all remaining tasks.
12 Submit your app source code, business plan, team photo, app description, and slide deck to P2PU.
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Introduction
Objectives:
• By the end of this lesson, students should have a clear understanding of the Technovation
Challenge program and what they will be doing for the next 12 weeks
• Students will be introduced to the Lean Thinking framework and understand the benefit of
conducting ample market research before developing a product