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26th Annual MIS Conference – February 14, 2013Photo(s) are stock photos. Release for web use of all photos on file.

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What’s it all about?

Presenting:

Engaging and Connecting:Developers

Entrepreneurs

TeachersStudents

the Public

Challenges Solutions!and

Using:DATA

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The VLDS

Program Goals

Raise awareness of the availability of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS)

Develop new and innovative ways to use VLDS Data

Engage the public and increase transparency

Apps4VA stems from a federal grant funded through ARRA “to support the development and implementation of a data system that tracks students from early childhood to post secondary and beyond.”

The VLDS integrates student and workforce data from across the Commonwealth.

The VDOE Apps4VA application development program aims to raise awareness of the availability of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) and to develop

new and innovative ways to use it.

Participants – 200+

Ideas Generated – 87+

Presentations – 25+

Press Releases, News Advisories, Articles – 25+

Tweets – 433 and counting!

Emails to Administrators, Educators, Entrepreneurs, Universities, Developers, Designers, Data Experts – 5000+

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Information is Power!

The development of further uses of VLDS data creates a win-win for everyone - students, parents, educators,

employers, citizens and policymakers.

What do we hope to accomplish?• Develop new measures for student performance

• Reveal factors that affect student performance

• Provide an enriched educational environment for Virginia students

• Reveal ways to better prepare Virginia’s students to enter the workplace and to compete in the global marketplace

• Equip Virginia teachers with tools to help tailor their programs to student needs

• Provide employers in Virginia with a workforce suited to their needs

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Program Components

EVENTS COMPETITIONS

Open Competition High School Competition

BEST PRACTICES RESEARCH

Permission: Kin Lane

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100 participants / >30 mentorsEducation-related businesses37 Pitches13 Teams launched

Events

Hosted by:

Let’s Get Snacks:Fresh fruit, dried fruit,

beef jerky, ramen noodles, string cheese,

chips, brownies, cookies, chicken

nuggets, granola bars, candy

“I learned to tweet.”

DRESSCODE

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Animatron: A software program to teach computer science programming through a game-like setting. Student learning advances as game complexity increases.

13 Ideas Chosen for Further DevelopmentAnd to Compete for the Top Prize

ClubHelper: An online service to connect teachers, schools or clubs with experts to create an enriched educational experience.

Edu Data Mashup & Simulator: Online service that simulates and mashes up data for a "visual representation of the facts."

Elluminated: “Facebook meets GoodReads.” A customizable interactive e-reader service that uses adaptive technology to enrich student's reading experience. Teachers can embed quizzes and add explanations where students may struggle the most.

Empowerment: A service that allows students to compare their progress to that of their peers using K-12 data. It helps students set short- and long-term goals and promotes long-term achievement.

Force of 6: A "learn while playing" game: students create a character using a mobile app based on “career-rich” data. These characters are used to explore real world situations before entering college and the work force.

GetNathanBackInSchool.com: A student assistance program: Helps students identify their weaknesses and provides a matching service to connect students with mentoring needs with student mentors.

Goal Tracker: A service that provides “personalized analytics” for K-12 students using their individualized data and comparing progress against current educational standards.

My School Budget: Service provides local school districts and schools a dashboard to help manage budgets and addresses the need for transparency. Members of the community will have access to “infographic-like” charts that track budgetary management.

My StuDebt: An online service that allows students to manage their student debt. All loans, balances and payments are available in one place to help students make sure they do not default.

Pigeon: A service that provides accurate, grammatically accurate templates for teachers to assist them in communicating student needs or progress to their non-English speaking parents.

Veritas Study: “eBay for Education.” A service that matches students to teachers, based on student learning styles.

Wishbooks: “Start-up Weekend Meets Pinterest meets Kickstarter.” A service that allows donors, from corporations to individuals, to encourage innovation in education through a matching service that matches local K-12 needs to donor interests.

Events

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1ST PLACEPigeon: A service that promotes student achievement by providing grammatically accurate templates for teachers to communicate student needs or progress to their non-English speaking parents.

Personalized templates are available for print, text, phone or email. Also supplies a set of templates for parents for follow up.

And the winners are …

Events

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And the winners are …

DATA PRIZEEdunomics: "The Freakonomics of Education."

A Microsoft-based online service that aggregates publicly available data for a visual representation of user-selected facts.

Graphically represents relationships such as how teen pregnancy affects dropout rates from unrelated datasets. Although the initial focus was education, Edunomics

may be adapted for any industry.

Events

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

6:00 p.m. Friday 10/19 – 5:00 p.m. Saturday 10/20

RichmondCharlottesvilleRoanoke/BlacksburgNorfolk

Entries must use one or more of the required datasets here:http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/research_data/index.shtml

Linked Live via Webcast!

$$ CASH PRIZES $$

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

Many teams stayed working all night

Large quantities of pizza, coffee, soda, and candy were consumed!

more than $6,000 awarded to winners across the state

To keep the energy up, locations held dance-offs, raffled off door prizes, and made special late-night milkshake runs

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

The Challenge!

Create apps based on education data provided by the Virginia Department of Education that will assist in better data-driven decision making for policymakers, educators, and students; ORdevelop apps that will facilitate communication among Virginia school divisions to compare best or promising practices, etc.!

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

27 individuals formed 12 teamsVDOE staff served as mentors

Prizes:Best in Commonwealth2nd PlaceRegional WinnersHackers Choice

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

And the winners are:

Chris took the Best in Commonwealth award for Predictive Outcomes, a tool to develop dropout risk profiles that will allow educational administrators to develop an intervention strategy for current Virginia students.

Harper and Joey split the 2nd place prize for their Division Cost / Performance Comparison Engine, an app that compares the relative cost per student in state funds versus SOL performance for a given division and allows for side by side comparisons.

John and Kim took the Richmond Hackers’ Choice award for ClassFundr, a mobile app that leverages the Donors Choose API to make it possible for parents and concerned citizens to donate directly to Virginia classroom projects either at schools nearby or those identified as being most in need.

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Simultaneous Hackathons!

And the winners are:Blacksburg: Phillip and Miles won both the location prize and the Hackers’ Choice award for Engage SOL, an app that allows administrators to monitor student progress on practice SOL tests and promotes student learning from these tests with the assistance of mentors.

Charlottesville: Caner, Jonathan, and Clinton also won both the location prize and the Hackers’ Choice Award for VAcompare, a suite of applications that provides diverse reports and analyses based on the Virginia Longitudinal Data System.

Norfolk: Norfolk participants Jeff and Chuck also scored both the location prize and the Hackers’ Choice Award for their Disability Advantage, a system that allows parents of special needs children to determine other schools within a given area that have children with special needs similar to their children.

Richmond: Patrick and Gabriel took the location prize for their SQWABBL (Server Query with Arbitrary Blocks Based Language), an app designed to perform “Create, Read, Update, Delete” functions against any dataset using drop options for specific parameters.

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Open Competition

Apps4VA Open Competition

Eligibility Open to all members of the publicTypes Working prototype with narrative (user manual).

Mashups accepted

$$ CASH PRIZES $$

MUST USE ONE OR MORE EXPOSED EDUCATION DATASETS!

CAN USE OTHER PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE DATA.

Winners will be announced on February 20, 2013!

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High School Competition

Apps4VA High School Competition

Eligibility Open to all Virginia public high school students – individuals or teams.

Types Outline in a presentation a software application or create an actual software application. Mashups accepted.

MUST USE ONE OR MORE EXPOSED EDUCATION DATASETS!

CAN USE OTHER PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE DATA.

$$ CASH PRIZES FOR STUDENTS AND THEIR

SCHOOLS$$

Winners will be announced on February 20, 2013!

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Competition Update

Open Competition – 15 submissions!High School Competition – 11 submissions!

Judging on February 19Winners Announced February 20

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Sponsors

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Coming Up

CS 474: Database Design and Application James Madison University, Spring 2013 Semester

April 5-7, 2013 Charlottesville, VA

Codeathon! April 20, 2013

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What’s Next?

Student information on this page is fictitious.

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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/apps4va

Twitter: @apps4va

www.apps4va.org

Bethann CanadaDirector, Educational Information

ManagementVirginia Department of Education

Bethann.canada@doe.virginia.gov