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Game of Apps season 7 - Coding, Design, and Entrepreneurship
Game of Apps is an after-school, extra-curricular program where
professional software developers and product designers working in the
industry teach and mentor students on a weekly basis.
General promo video: https://youtu.be/RUOK8HlWWd8
Our goals are:
- Expose students to how Technology products are built,
- Demonstrate to students how their individual strengths and interests
might be employed in the industry,
- Develop in students important soft skills—critical thinking, problem
solving, curiosity, tenacity, teamwork, communication, etc.—useful not
just in Technology but whatever career path they choose
We’ve made a number of changes for this season, most notably:
- Revamp our senior program (grades 10-12), more details below,
- Introduce a new program, Swift Student Challenge, for returning students
For the senior program, the changes we’ve implemented are:
- Rebrand offering to “Startup School”
- Add Entrepreneurship topics (market segmentation, product-market fit,
competitive analysis, business case analysis) from a Technology perspective
- Move to a tiered offering—this season’s program will be Level 1, and
returning students next season will take Level 2, a continuation of this
year’s program
- Program details: https://youtu.be/oXN1-qXlKtM
For students who completed Middle Years L2 or last year’s Senior
program, we have a brand new offering where students may enter Apple’s
Swift Student Challenge, which is part of Apple’s annual WWDC (Worldwide
Developers’ Conference), for a chance to win some Apple prizes and a
trip to the 2024 WWDC in Silicon Valley. Program details:
For the middle years program, grades 6 to 9, we continue to offer levels
1 and 2. Program details: https://youtu.be/nWJq7T5bUis
The Richmond School District will continue to offer a $100 subsidy to
the first 50 students who register. Further, we have an early-bird
discount for students who register before Sep 30.
Would you be able to help us again this year with getting the word out
to students? In particular, we are looking to target:
- Students who are interested in Technology (this is the default group,
but not the only group who can benefit from GoA)
- Artists and other creative students whose skillsets would be very much
in demand in Technology (but they may not realize this yet)
- Business-oriented students who want to see how their specific
interests applies in the context of building, marketing and selling
Technology products
- Students who are under-represented in the Technology industry
(especially female students)
- Registration: https://gameofapps.org/register
- Complete curriculum pathways: https://youtu.be/wxwJ2kcXd6g
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Updated:
Wednesday, September 20, 2023