Mentor Curriculum: Unit 5 (Junior)

Meeting Agenda Templates

Use these pre-made sample agendas to run your sessions with your students. These templates were developed to reflect the experience and division of student teams. Mentors are encouraged to adjust the agendas to meet the needs of your team. The agenda is designed to accommodate different meeting formats.

Choose the option that best fits your team.

⭐️ 2-Hour Meeting
Complete the full agenda during one 2-hour meeting.

🌱 Two 1-Hour Meetings
Divide the agenda between two 1-hour meetings.

⚡️ 1-Hour Meeting Each Week
Use the 1-Hour Meeting markers to identify the activities to complete during each weekly 1-hour meeting. Complete the remaining activities between meetings as homework.

Unit 5

OBJECTIVES FOR UNIT

💡Ideation

📑Entrepreneurship

📱Coding

📈Artificial Intelligence

BUILD YOUR AGENDA

Select one of the agenda templates and fill it in with the week’s activities to organize what your team will cover in your meeting for the week.

Any remaining activities should be completed by the team outside of the meeting or in future meetings.

OUTLINE OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE UNIT

Unit 5 has 5 activities, not all of them need to be done in your session together. Choose what you would like to accomplish together in a 1 -2 hour meeting. The team can work on the remaining activities separately. To learn how these activities help your team, review the Goals of the Activities.

Note: We strongly recommend using App Inventor over Thunkable, as Thunkable may have additional restrictions for free accounts.

Can be done during the meeting

Can be done after the meeting

Activity

💡Prototyping Activity 1: Make a paper prototype, if building an app, based on the MVP worksheet that students completed in last unit’s lesson.

If building an AI project, teams may find creating a 3D model or cardboard prototype helpful based on the MVP worksheet they completed in last unit’s lesson.

💡Prototyping Activity 2: Getting user feedback. Show the prototype to users and take notes of their project flow, comments, reactions.

📑Partnering with Organizations Activity: Identify 2-3 individuals or organizations that could be potential partners, prepare a script for a phone call or draft an email. Document the date/time students spoke to or emailed the organization.

💡Planning your Project Activity: Use the Project Canvas to define major parts of the project, and generate a list of actions items for the team.

Skip if you are making a web app

📱Variables and Lists Activity: Complete a quiz app (Worksheet: App Inventor | Thunkable)

📈Train your AI Model Activity: Using one of the platforms listed above (or any other one the team has found), train their AI model.

Skip if you are making a mobile app

📱Web apps using AI models: Build a prediction app (Jupyter notebook)

Goals of the activities:

💡(Ideation) Paper and Cardboard Prototyping (60 min): Activity 1

In this activities students will:

Learn about standard user interface practices
Create a prototype of their project, which can help them quickly get their ideas on paper, or into a basic 3D model, to show how their project generally works.

Note: only one of the prototyping activities needs to be done by the team. If students are building an app, they will create a paper prototype, but if they are creating an AI project, they will create a cardboard prototype.

💡(Ideation) Get user feedback (60 min): Activity 2

In this activities students will:

Test their prototype with 2-3 potential users
Understand how understandable their project looks to the users and take notes of potential changes.

❗️Mentor tip❗️

Getting Feedback!

Encourage the team to reach out to end users as they outline their MVP to make sure they are making something that will be used.

How?

Contact local (or national) organizations that are already in this space
Find people in their community whom the problem affects – ask friends, parents, teachers for contacts
Conduct surveys – school class, friends, reach out on social media
Use your own contacts
Ask meaningful questions:
- Targeted, specific questions, e.g. “Does the app help with step X of this process to resolve the issue? If not, what could we change to improve your experience?” “Which proposed features would be most helpful to address the problem, listed by priority?”
- Role model an interview with the team