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2.2Objectives

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  To implement a web-based education portal to efficiently teach students of 13…18 ages for CS, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. The emphasis will be on CS.
  
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  To leverage existing TC assets (like Arena, Marathon Matches, TC High School) for performing middle and high students education through competitions.
  
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  To share users’ data on the social network and deliver common widely used social networking features (like forums, blogs, friends, etc.) to the education web-portal.
  
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  To motivate students for learning education materials, participating in competitions and for getting interested in new areas they never possible recognized earlier.
  
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  To support powerful user management (including identity verification) and a large set of user roles assigned to trusted users. That management has to be as simple as it possible for end users.
  
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  To deliver full content management for education and competition data.
  
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  To provide engaging, interesting, attractive, and easy to understand education content for CS, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math subjects.
  
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  To reduce possibility of “cyberbullying” in the application to as low as it possible.
  
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  To design a base platform for CS-STEM application, suiting such education tasks.
  
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  To send helpful e-mail notifications to users in most important events during the application workflow.
  
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  To support logging of errors/warnings/exceptions and audit all the user actions during the application execution.
  
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  To achieve high performance of the application and scalability.
  

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  Initially:
  
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    To attract students from at least 15 different US states to the CS-STEM education portal.
    
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    To achieve at least 80% of users completed registration on CS-STEM to participate in one or more activities on CS-STEM education portal. We define "retained users" as registered users, who have visited CS-STEM portal at least 2 more times after registration AND have been involved in activities on CS-STEM portal during 3 months after their initial activity.
    
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  For future:
  
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    To involve thousands of users to CS-STEM portal.
    
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    To make a positive buzz through community about new education portal.
    
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    To have long-term corporate sponsorship of content, awards, prizes, scholarships and SRM style sponsorship.
    
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    To achieve and confirm an ability for making more communities by TC community (CxC, Community by Community) in the future. Most of base platform features, defined in this conceptualization, could be efficiently re-used in the future for building new communities if this application succeeds.
    

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  The maximum expected count of users will be several thousands until the end of first year. The system must be scalable.
  
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  The maximum expected count of concurrent users for the application is 500.
  

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  The new application will be specially designed for students of 13…18 years old. GUI, problems, education content, communication will be adopted for the middle-high school students.
  
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  GUI has to be attractive, user friendly and fun. It will contain more graphics than previous TC web-site.