Create a plan, build your team and find a mentor!

• Getting Started

Get to know your community, the problems they face, and how to best solve a problem with a mobile phone. You will also choose an app builder to build your app.

• Understanding your Community
• Brainstorming Problems
• Solving Problems with Mobile Phones
• Exploring Different App Builders

Come up with a solution to your problem, and do some marketing research to make sure it's the best solution possible. Learn some basics of programming.

• Researching and Selecting Problems
• Market Research
• Problem Statement
• Algorithms and Pseudocode
• Solving Problems with Artificial Intelligence

Plan out the best way to tackle your solution. Create a business around your app idea and write a mission statement. Learn about event handlers.

• Minimum Viable Product
• Paper and Cardboard Prototyping
• Businesses and Mission Statements
• Events Handlers

Wrap up your idea witha
project canvas. Solve your first coding challenge and learn about branding.

• Brands
• Coding Challenge 1
• Data and Functions
• Project Canvas

Learn how to visually express your business's identity, learn about variables and lists.

• Color Schemes
• Typefaces
• Variables
• Lists

Brand your app and learn about conditionals

• Logos
• Marketing your Project
• Coding Challenge 2
• If / Else Conditionals

Continue coding your app and create your business model

• If / Else / Else If Conditional Statements
• Advanced Logic and Conditionals
• Calculating Revenue
• Operating Costs and Business Models

Learn about loops and sensors and write your business plan

• Loops
• Components and Sensors
• Business Plan [Senior Division]
• AI and Your App

Learn to code databases & APIs, and create your pitch video.

• Outline Your Pitch Video
• Storing Data Locally
• Cloud Storage and APIs

Edit your pitch video and debug your app

• Record Your Pitch Video
• Debugging Tips
• Flowcharts

Practice pitching your idea and prepare your submission materials

• Edit Your Pitch Video
• Create a Pitch Presentation

Follow a walk through on how to submit your idea and planning for after the season!

• Submitting to the Competition