Water Usage App Coolest Project Awards?

[Francis Reed]

Sean Gleeson has registered an idea for the Coolest Project Award on June 7th and he is going to need some help to get this ready....

We talked a bit about the Water Calculation App in Wednesday's session and I've attached a doc outlining some of those ideas.

We think we can do this in App Designer, which will allow us to get this ready in a short space of time and have it working as an app on an android device.

We will talk more about this in Wednesday's session and there's a few parts to this so it may require a team of people to get it ready in time!

More will be posted on our website in due course....

[Francis Reed]

Last week was a bit hectic, and we took a bit of time to get going. One of the hardest things to do was to work out the way in which we could calculate the total from what we started with and get that working in App Inventor. One of the things about coding is there's lots of ways of doing things and often it takes a bit of time to work out the best way. I played around with one way using lists and I've updated the prototype document with some sample code.

So in Week 2, next week we need to get the basics of the app working, with at least this calculation working. 

It would be great to be able to make the Quiz screen work too and to get a sprite with animation and sound working.

Week 3 would be to get all this working together in one place and be able to debug any problems!

[Francis Reed]

Here's an update to the Prototype design with ideas for the Quiz and animation sections

On Sunday, May 18, 2014 10:53:42 AM UTC+1, Francis Reed wrote:

[Sandra Maguire, CoderDojoDL]

Just had a moment to look at that now - and all kudos to Francis, you had the bones of a great, and wonderfully topical, project put together and I'm gutted that Sean isn't available to get it sorted, I think it would have stood a really good chance of walking away with a good prize.  I hate to see a good idea like this vanish and have been trying to think of a way to keep it alive and growing!

We still haven't done anything on the belts & badges*, so I don't know how much that will take from our funds, i.e. what will we have left; but I wonder if it might be worth running a Dun Laoghaire version of a "Coolest Project"?  Get the kids to use the main Google Group that is linked from our website home page, have one mentor keeping an eye on it every week - even open it to local kids, publicise it as much as possible - and have a presentation/judging day in September?

With Ursula under pressure, this has stood still; Bill Liao's advice is to simply hand the whole Belts & Badges thing over to parents.

I do think it's time to get parents doing a lot more, even setting up Eventbrite so that they can choose which "job" they will do, setting up tables, tidying up afterwards, social media, finding a speaker ...  The important thing though (to my mind), is that no child is denied a place because their parent isn't interested!  But that's a conversation for later ...

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