Mobility live hackathon project template

For over fifty years, National 4-H Council's eCommerce team has offered curriculum in a variety of subjects such as animal science, agriculture, engineering, creative arts, environment, and practical living. These curriculum products range from introductory to mastery levels for youth between grades 3-12, and are centered on the principles of experiential learning with the participants actively involved in ideating solutions and building prototypes. Curriculum sales are currently undergoing rapid growth due to new introduction of relevant topics and interest from youth groups and schools outside of the 4-H market.

The eCommerce team would like to build on this expanding reach by entering the digital space with our curriculum in a way that is useful to our customers. We want to create an app that supplements the national 4-H Entomology curriculum titled Teaming with Insects, and will allow youth to engage with this material in a way that they are already very comfortable with - mobile technology. If this initial mobile application is successful and reviewed positively by our customers, we'd like to expand upon this strategy in the future with additional curriculum topic areas.

In line with 4-H's philosophy of starting with the problem rather than the solution, we are eager to have the teams determine what this app should look and feel like. We will not be prescriptive in our requirements. That being said, we will outline the necessary features and outcomes to give guidance.

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  A mobile application sharing the peer-reviewed material in our Entomology curriculum in an engaging way
  
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  Interactive features (multiple choice quizzes or fun games to underline importance of lessons, reinvention of activities in books to apply to mobile device format, gamification within a learning context, etc.)
  
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  In-app ability to purchase full 4-H entomology printed materials
  
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  Links to 4-H Mall website and 4-H entomology curriculum description page
  
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  Capturing users' contact information
  
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  Preferably available on both iOS and Android devices
  

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  Ability to share this app as an introduction into 4-H curriculum for those who have never purchased it before, transitioning them into purchasing customers
  
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  Successful integration of app as a supplement of entomology curriculum - fun way for youth to practice their lessons and remember what they've learned
  
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  Trackable metrics to determine how many apps have been downloaded and how positively it is viewed
  

Tara Wheeler

Available on one of the follow dates/times for the Q&A

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October 7^th at 1:00pm -1:30pm