3rd annual Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day 2017
Another fabulous Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day, after a long semester of learning came to a screeching halt last Saturday.
Elation and some disappointment (at the pitch fest)…but the learning has been tremendous.
Over 250 students at 8 locations got trained with the A,B,Cs of entrepreneurship, and now move onto hopefully bigger and better things, empowered with the the tools and training of entrepreneurship.
Students from all locations converged for our 3rd annual Silicon Valley Tech Day…. great day of learning, teaming and collaboration for many middle and high school students who joined us.
You missed it? Videos and pictures are below
Congratulations to all the 10 teams that were picked to present their product and business pitches - every startup project was impressive and executed with so much intelligence, passion and energy by these young middle school and high school students.
Here are the winners
1st place winners “SolarClean”(Fremont) Members Jinwoo Park, Sriya Bairy, Daniel Binoy, Francis Indaheng
Solar Clean Project Summary:
Dust and debris reduce the efficiency of household solar panels by up to 30 percent. While manual cleaning services are available to clean the solar panels, they burden the house owners with the expensive cost and inconvenience. Our product is a mechanized solar panel cleaner that brings back the efficiency to its full potential by utilizing technologies developed for industrial purposes.
2nd place winners .Team name: B-key (Saratoga) Members Grace Boulos,Elena Boulos and Reva Gupta
Realtor solution Summary: B-key is a solution for realtors, AirBnB hosts, and homeowners that replaces traditional key lockboxes with a smartphone app, biometric sensor, physical lockbox, and a powerful backend analytics engine. We are doing to lockboxes what Nest did to thermostats – bring them to the modern age!
3rd place winners: Team Name: JRH Members (Saratoga): Joshua Rayan, Hannah Rayan, Rhema Dadala
CallNow description: Since there are 1.6 million accidents caused by phone usage while driving, according to the National Safety Council, we built CallNow, an app that promotes safe calling for all and accelerated daily follow up calls for salespeople.
NOTE: We will repeat this program again in Fall at all locations.... and a few more. Contact me if you are interested to launch this program in your city.
Elation and some disappointment (at the pitch fest)…but the learning has been tremendous.
Over 250 students at 8 locations got trained with the A,B,Cs of entrepreneurship, and now move onto hopefully bigger and better things, empowered with the the tools and training of entrepreneurship.
Students from all locations converged for our 3rd annual Silicon Valley Tech Day…. great day of learning, teaming and collaboration for many middle and high school students who joined us.
You missed it? Videos and pictures are below
Congratulations to all the 10 teams that were picked to present their product and business pitches - every startup project was impressive and executed with so much intelligence, passion and energy by these young middle school and high school students.
Here are the winners
1st place winners “SolarClean”(Fremont) Members Jinwoo Park, Sriya Bairy, Daniel Binoy, Francis Indaheng
Solar Clean Project Summary:
Dust and debris reduce the efficiency of household solar panels by up to 30 percent. While manual cleaning services are available to clean the solar panels, they burden the house owners with the expensive cost and inconvenience. Our product is a mechanized solar panel cleaner that brings back the efficiency to its full potential by utilizing technologies developed for industrial purposes.
2nd place winners .Team name: B-key (Saratoga) Members Grace Boulos,Elena Boulos and Reva Gupta
Realtor solution Summary: B-key is a solution for realtors, AirBnB hosts, and homeowners that replaces traditional key lockboxes with a smartphone app, biometric sensor, physical lockbox, and a powerful backend analytics engine. We are doing to lockboxes what Nest did to thermostats – bring them to the modern age!
3rd place winners: Team Name: JRH Members (Saratoga): Joshua Rayan, Hannah Rayan, Rhema Dadala
CallNow description: Since there are 1.6 million accidents caused by phone usage while driving, according to the National Safety Council, we built CallNow, an app that promotes safe calling for all and accelerated daily follow up calls for salespeople.
NOTE: We will repeat this program again in Fall at all locations.... and a few more. Contact me if you are interested to launch this program in your city.
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Mayor Sam Liccardo addresses the Tech Day audience
The Annual "Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day”, hosted by the youth for the youth of our community.
The 3rd annual Tech Day is set for June 10th, 2017 between Noon-6pm
Below you will find information about our annual Youth Tech Day
Shivaum Kumar
- Founder, Silicon Valley Young Coders club (SVYCC)
- Founder, Startup Bootcamp for Young Enterpreneurs (SBYE)
shivaum1<at>gmail.com / 408 805 6887
SILICON
Our annual is set for this Saturday June 10th between Noon and 5pm in San Jose. Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose is the keynote speaker. Hosted by San Jose Library and Silicon Valley Coders Club (www.SiliconValleyCoders.org) Middle school and high school students will converge for a day of shared learning and to get inspired by hi-tech leaders Silicon Valley.
WHEN: June 10th, 2017 between Noon-5pm
WHERE: Seven Trees Community Center (Multipurpose room / Banquet room)
Address: 3590 Cas Dr, San Jose, CA 95111
RSVP: tinyurl.com/startupbootcamp4kids
There is no charge to attend, but RSVP is required
Event Chair: Shivaum Kumar
Even Emcee: Dr. Ranu Sinha
The detail agenda is below
Why should your child join us at Tech Day?
— AGENDA--
12:30pm to 1:15pm - Startup project overview by 50+ startup teams from all over Silicon Valley
- 1:15pm Young entrepreneurs panel: A RECIPE FOR LEARNING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUCCESS
- 2:00pm Keynote address by Mayor Sam Liccardo
- 2:20 pm Women in Technology panel: GIRLS IN STEM PROGRAM - WHY NOT!
- 3:00 pm Industry executives panel: WHAT IS EXCITING ABOUT HI-TECH IN SILICON VALLEY
- 3:40pm Silicon Valley elected leaders panel: HI-TECH POLICY MAKING...SILICON VALLEY THRIVING
- 4:00pm Startup Pitch Fest: PITCH TO WIN GRAND FINALE
Youth entrepreneurs from all Coders club locations pitch in front of a VC panel of judges and compete for best prototype/project - winner takes $1,000 and perhaps VC funding. Judges are:
The 3rd annual Tech Day is set for June 10th, 2017 between Noon-6pm
Below you will find information about our annual Youth Tech Day
Shivaum Kumar
- Founder, Silicon Valley Young Coders club (SVYCC)
- Founder, Startup Bootcamp for Young Enterpreneurs (SBYE)
shivaum1<at>gmail.com / 408 805 6887
SILICON
Our annual is set for this Saturday June 10th between Noon and 5pm in San Jose. Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose is the keynote speaker. Hosted by San Jose Library and Silicon Valley Coders Club (www.SiliconValleyCoders.org) Middle school and high school students will converge for a day of shared learning and to get inspired by hi-tech leaders Silicon Valley.
WHEN: June 10th, 2017 between Noon-5pm
WHERE: Seven Trees Community Center (Multipurpose room / Banquet room)
Address: 3590 Cas Dr, San Jose, CA 95111
RSVP: tinyurl.com/startupbootcamp4kids
There is no charge to attend, but RSVP is required
Event Chair: Shivaum Kumar
Even Emcee: Dr. Ranu Sinha
The detail agenda is below
Why should your child join us at Tech Day?
- Review and learn from the startup projects of over 50 youth startup teams from 9 locations of the Silicon Valley Coders club
- Listen to industry executives, ask questions, present your own ideas, get their feedback, have interactive discussion with other youth. find about upcoming technology trends and hear innovative business plans.
- Get tech policy perspective from local elected leaders, engage about policies and technology
- Meet students of your age/grade who are on the startup track, and already turning ideas into products, At least 2 teams from each location will get to pitch in front of a panel of judges and compete for best prototype/project. The winning team will receive seed funding for their startup
— AGENDA--
12:30pm to 1:15pm - Startup project overview by 50+ startup teams from all over Silicon Valley
- 1:15pm Young entrepreneurs panel: A RECIPE FOR LEARNING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUCCESS
- 2:00pm Keynote address by Mayor Sam Liccardo
- 2:20 pm Women in Technology panel: GIRLS IN STEM PROGRAM - WHY NOT!
- Dr. Laura Mather, CEO Unitive
- Reena Gupta, CEO Target Recruit
- Shalini Govi-Pai, Director and Global Head, Product Solutions, YouTube
- Shruthi Rao, VP Strategic Alliances, FeedzAI
- Dr Ranu Sinha (Moderator)
- 3:00 pm Industry executives panel: WHAT IS EXCITING ABOUT HI-TECH IN SILICON VALLEY
- Guy Brundson, Cisco Systems, Director, Product Management & Technical Marketing at Cisco
- Sudhakar Ramakrishna, CEO Pulse Secure
- Ellen Brigham, VP Product Marketing, Ghangor Cloud
- Vipin Jain, Founder CEO 6dBytes
- Amit Seth, CEO Affinity Solutions (Moderator)
- 3:40pm Silicon Valley elected leaders panel: HI-TECH POLICY MAKING...SILICON VALLEY THRIVING
- Congressman Ro Khanna (CD-17)
- Senator Jim Beall (SD-15)
- Assemblymember Kansen Chu (AD-25)
- Assemblymember Ash Kalra (AD-27)
- Councilmember Rishi Kumar, Saratoga (Moderator)
- 4:00pm Startup Pitch Fest: PITCH TO WIN GRAND FINALE
Youth entrepreneurs from all Coders club locations pitch in front of a VC panel of judges and compete for best prototype/project - winner takes $1,000 and perhaps VC funding. Judges are:
- Amit Seth, President, Affinity Solutions
- Archana Kulkarni, Developer, Channel Management Solutions
- Avi Bhatnagar, Director Marketing/Strategy, WhiteHat Security
- Gary Tasser, Chief Numbers Officer, Beyond Numbers
- Lochan Narvekar, Director Data Management, Infoblox
- Madhan Rangaswamy, Chief Scientist, IOT / Smart City Startup
- Milind Gokarn, CEO Selectiva
- Monish Suvarna, CEO Stealth Startup
- Seema Giri, Product Management Consultant
- Sreeram Pydah, CEO MEDantex
Tech Day Pitch Fest: Rules of Competition and ...winning
We will pick 2 teams from each location of the Silicon Valley Young Coders club to pitch their product as part of the VC “PITCH FEST” at the 3rd Annual Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day 2017
These 2 teams will be picked by the instructor of the location - based upon success the team has achieved in building their prototype.
See evaluation criteria below
Each team will have a total of 5 minutes to present their product pitch and product
At the end of 5 minutes the team will be asked to stop presenting.
Each team should review the criteria below to decide how they want to allocate their pitch time between the different components of their pitch
We suggest focusing on the demo (30% weightage) - or whatever else that will portray the complete picture of the value of their product and their hought process and work that has gone into this product. Our setup will allow teams to project their phone screen (iOS only), but technical glitches may occur. If you have an Android app please bring supporting laptop/adapters/cables etc that is needed for you to demo and project it on the projector. Please plan to have screen shots of your product in your presentation (backup slides) of your product that you can use in case the projection does not work.
Deck instruction: Also, it is required that you insert the Silicon Valley Coders log into your presentation's front cover page and every subsequent page
There will not be time for Q&A
You will need to email shivaum1<at>gmail.com by Friday June 9th midnight.
Send your deck Ideally as a PDF (but PPT accepted) - to prevent formating errors
We will use a single laptop for projecting the presentations and for attaching the demo phone i.e we will NOT be switching laptops
There will be wi-fi in the room, but please plan for a personal hot spot for your devices as needed
Please bring any adapters that are needed by your phone to be connected to a laptop for the projection
The judges will rate you on the following criteria:
These 2 teams will be picked by the instructor of the location - based upon success the team has achieved in building their prototype.
See evaluation criteria below
Each team will have a total of 5 minutes to present their product pitch and product
At the end of 5 minutes the team will be asked to stop presenting.
Each team should review the criteria below to decide how they want to allocate their pitch time between the different components of their pitch
We suggest focusing on the demo (30% weightage) - or whatever else that will portray the complete picture of the value of their product and their hought process and work that has gone into this product. Our setup will allow teams to project their phone screen (iOS only), but technical glitches may occur. If you have an Android app please bring supporting laptop/adapters/cables etc that is needed for you to demo and project it on the projector. Please plan to have screen shots of your product in your presentation (backup slides) of your product that you can use in case the projection does not work.
Deck instruction: Also, it is required that you insert the Silicon Valley Coders log into your presentation's front cover page and every subsequent page
There will not be time for Q&A
You will need to email shivaum1<at>gmail.com by Friday June 9th midnight.
- - Your deck that includes our logo (see below)
- - Your Team Name
- - A 2 to 3 line summary of your product?
- - Names and email address of all participants in the team
- - Please send your decks to shivaum1<at>gmail.com
Send your deck Ideally as a PDF (but PPT accepted) - to prevent formating errors
We will use a single laptop for projecting the presentations and for attaching the demo phone i.e we will NOT be switching laptops
There will be wi-fi in the room, but please plan for a personal hot spot for your devices as needed
Please bring any adapters that are needed by your phone to be connected to a laptop for the projection
The judges will rate you on the following criteria:
- Prototype Demo - 30 points max
- Idea : Creativity 10 points max
- Idea : Uniqueness 10 points max
- Business Plan - Product success chances in market 10 points
- Business Plan - Financial (and Monetization) Plan 10 points
- Teaming/Collaboration 10 points
- Presentation 10 points
- Leadership - 10 points
PITCH FEST TEMPLATE
Every team should use this template to build their deck
| techdaypitchfesttemplate.pptx |
JUDGES CRITERIA for Tech Day Startup Pitch Fest
| pitchfest_tech_day.docx |
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