ELLIE ALBARRAN, SANDY BOLE, JASON CAI, MIKE KOSK, AOI SENJU, SHRIYA SEKHSARIA

 

OUR INSPIRATION

Princeton does not provide students with opportunities to learn a variety of practical skills

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“But it’s so hard to pick up new skills at a place like Princeton…”

“Every student group here says you need ‘No experience necessary’ to join, but they have tryouts, auditions, or interviews to cut anyone without experience”

- Greg B.

“Classes here are so theoretical, it’s like… when am I going to use any of the information I learn here after I graduate?”

- Jen M.

“There’s a bunch of clubs that could teach me skills that I want to learn, but I’m just not able to make the time commitment to meet each week”

- John D.

“Everyone who comes in is so specialized, the people who dance here danced in high school, the people who play sports here played the same sports in high school…”

- Ben S.

OUR BREAKTHROUGH

Our greatest asset is our own student body

TIME Princeton students are already pressed for time with curricular learning itself.

ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT

We do not have the ability to change curriculum and grant credit.

INCENTIVES

The strongest incentives for teachers are money and college credit, which we cannot provide.

RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS

ITERATIVE RESEARCH: EXISTING EFFORTS

UC BERKELEY PRINCETON RUTGERS

IS THERE A DEMAND?

HOW MUCH DEMAND? Overwhelming support for alpha prototype

Opportunities for classes are endless

SCHEDULING CLASSES

...though it doesn’t always go well

Teaching Table Tearn Up for Lawn Parties!

INTERACTING WITH THOSE INTERESTED

S i g n U p Sheets

BETA PROTOTYPE

SUCCESS!

PROBLEM

CHALLENGES

Attracting more users

Ensuring follow-through

Improving Credibility

ATTRACTING USERS

EXPANDING CONNECTIVITY

ENSURING FOLLOW-THROUGH

Weekly available class updates

IMPROVING CREDIBILITY

Creating an exclusive teaching community to improve quality control

INCENTIVIZING LEARNING

CAMPUS RECOGNITION

Other students

Other developers Princeton administration

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USER FEEDBACK “I think some anonymity would make this app more attractive to people today. I think people should advertise their skills anonymously and then have their identity revealed to their clients after they are paired together through the app.”

-En-Wei H. ‘16

You often learn more from other students at Princeton than you do in classes. This kind of skill sharing experience helps people get to know each other and learn things faster in a more casual way."

- Jacob S. '15, teacher of Photoshop

"Tearn Up is an awesome way to share skills with others that aren't necessarily taught in the classroom."

- Meaghan O. '17, learner of Sign Language

"If you know something, you should ALWAYS be looking for opportunities to teach. It exposes the things you don’t understand, and makes you look at things from new angles when students ask questions."

-Matthew L. ‘18, teacher of Self-Defense

WHERE ARE WE GOING? Recruiting more teachers and learners

Reach out to Student Groups like dance groups to teach; incentivized by publicity to their group

Setting up a Teaching Table at the Activities Fair Corporate coffee sponsorship

Setting up an events calendar + class rating system on the website

Finding successors to run Tearn Up