Presenter Name Event Name

Create apps to change your world

Apps for Good

Iris Lapinski & Eleanor Murphy VISIR Seminar 25-26 March 2014

www.visir-network.eu

Why?

• To grow the next generation of problem-solvers and tech entrepreneurs

• Technology education

• 31,000 students since 2010 (50-50 boys & girls; exponential growth)

• Coding with a purpose – not just for it’s own sake Founder: failed female engineer :)

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Some history

• Inspired by CDI in Brazil (1995); 2010 start in UK

• Dell as founding corporate sponsor 2010-13

• Pivot from community centers into schools into governments

• Listen to your most passionate early customers

• Build great tech platform fast (we miserably failed at the 1st

attempt and this cost us a year of growth)

• Students pick their own problems -> pedagogy inspired by Paulo Freire

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Big hairy ambitious goal

• Internationalising to several countries

• Reaching 2 million students per year

• Scale: finding passionate partners (regional governments, corporate partners, education non-profits) to give our content and platform reach