Mentor Curriculum: Unit 10 (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 10

Table of Contents

OBJECTIVES FOR UNIT 10

📣Pitch

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 10 has 3 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.

Can be done during the meeting

Can be done after the meeting

Activity

📣Editing Pitch Video Activity: Gather and organize materials. Prioritize the most important edits to make to be able to submit. Choose a video editing software and edit your videos. Get feedback from your team members and mentors and incorporate their feedback.

📣Editing Technical Video Activity: Gather and organize materials. Prioritize the most important edits to make to be able to submit. Choose a video editing software and edit your videos. Get feedback from your team members and mentors and incorporate their feedback.

📣Upload Videos: Choose Youtube or Vimeo to upload videos. Make sure they are unlisted or public, then upload the links to the Technovation submission platform.

Goals of the activities:

📣(Videos) Editing Videos (60+ min)

In these activities students will: 

  • Use video editing software to combine video footage into a 4 minute pitch video and a 2 minute technical video.
  • Upload their videos to Youtube or Vimeo

Additional editing tips and resources:

Keep in mind the submission requirements:

  • Pitch – Maximum of 3 minutes
  • Technical – maximum of 3 minutes
  • Share via Youtube or Vimeo. The videos must be uploaded as unlisted or publicly viewable. We cannot guarantee videos without these credentials will be judged.
  • If you are not speaking English in the video, you must include English subtitles. And we highly recommend that videos have English subtitles even if English is spoken in the video.

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