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Winners of Tech Day 2018

1st place Smart Doctor
Sidharth Dharmasanam
Nesyah Galatin
Yash Nasikkar
 
2nd place Team Latch and Patch
Nikhil Mangalore
Patrick Bagihoki
Rohit Kuppireddy

3rd place Team Optimus
Arya Nasikkar
Ben Xi
Mihir Mishra
Sanjana Mishra
 

WINNERS OF PITCH FEST 2018

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CONGRATULATIONS TO WINNERS OF ​SILICON VALLEY SHARK TANK 2017
Conducted December 17, 2017 at Saratoga CA

1.  MyFood (Charlotte, NC) -  1st Place
            Sanskriti Deva, Sanskar Deva, Aaryan Vemunoori , Saskia Seepersaud, Aakash Shah       
 2.   Soar Innovations  (Charlotte, NC) - 2nd Place
            Ojas Panda, Aryan Shah, Aaditya Malapati, Nikhil Kamisetty, Neel Patel 
3. PowerSprint (Pleasanton, CA) - 3rd place
           Sunaad, Vishal, Avighna, Aswin, Amey, Aamani

WELCOME TO THE
4th annual Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day 2018
NO CHARGE EVENT - OPEN TO ALL

RSVP ​here

The Annual "Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day”, hosted by the youth for the youth of our community.

The 4th annual Tech Day is set for Saturday, June 9th, 2018 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



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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.
Mayor Sam Liccardo of San Jose is the keynote speaker. 
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
Every location of our club will send 3 location pitch fest winners to the final round of pitch fest
Winning team will take home seed money for their startup
NOTE: Every team should have a working prototype to demo at Tech Day.
If you are a competing team, make sure you read this for details

Event Chair: Shivaum Kumar
Why should your child join us at Tech Day?
  • Review and learn from the startup projects of over 50 youth startup teams from many 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, Up to 3 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--
12:00pm-1:15pm - Startup project overview by startup teams from all over Silicon Valley. 
***NEW THIS YEAR: Wildcard winner. Display your project and judge(s) will award the best project. Use of banners/project description displays/ videos/ website/prototype will help the wild card team win. 
- Young entrepreneurs panel: A RECIPE FOR LEARNING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUCCESS
- Keynote address by Mayor Sam Liccardo
- 1:00pm Industry Executive Panel in Technology panel: JOIN THE STE(A)M TRAIN - THE TECH BAND WAGON...WHY NOT!
- 2:00pm 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 $500 and perhaps VC funding. 

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***NEW THIS YEAR: Wildcard winner. Display your project and judge(s) will award the best project. Use of banners/project description displays/ videos/ website/prototype will help the wild card team win

Tech Day Pitch Fest:  Rules of Competition and ...winning

We will pick 2 or 3 teams from each location of the Silicon Valley Young Coders club to pitch their product as part of the  “PITCH FEST” at the 4th Annual Silicon Valley Youth Tech Day 2018
These teams will be picked by the instructor of the location - based upon success the team has achieved in building their prototype, by running a location pitch fest. Teams are not picked solely upon their success in writing a business plan. 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 thought 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.
VERY IMPORTANT: You are required to use the template from below.
Not using the template for your presentation may result in negative scoring. Please follow the sequence of the deck.  There will not be time for Q&A

Teams will need to email  shivaum1<at>gmail.com by the Friday midnight prior to pitch fest. Each team takes responsibility for sending the correct version deck to Shivaum by midnight. ​No changes to your deck permitted after Friday midnight.
  • - Your google slides that includes our logo (see the template below)
  • - Your Team Name
  • - A 2 to 3 line summary of your product?
  • - Names/email addresses/ phone numbers of all participants in the team
  • - Please send your decks to shivaum1<at>gmail.com
Scroll down below to view sample presentations

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 criteria as outlined in the template below

SHARK TANK PITCH FEST TEMPLATE
​(Business Plan Module 1 Pitch Fest)

The Shark Tank Pitch Fest (Business Plan Pitch Fest) template is here 
​The Shark Tank Judges form is below - click on the doc
sharktank_judges_forms_2017.doc
File Size: 157 kb
File Type: doc
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 SV YOUTH TECH DAY PITCH FEST TEMPLATE
Every team should use this template to to present your project at your location Pitch Fest and qualify for the next round.
The finalists from each locations should use this same deck for their project presentation at Tech Day

- Note: Download the google doc and edit. Follow the template as best as you can. Do not remove logos etc.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hx3EW14LxwoH-HEJtifYRboYSTjiz6OUDD7nFF_g4OI/edit?usp=sharing​

JUDGES CRITERIA for Tech Day Startup Pitch Fest

pitchfest_tech_day.docx
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File Type: docx
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Sample Presentations

solarclean-1.pdf
File Size: 1074 kb
File Type: pdf
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j.r.h.pdf
File Size: 1868 kb
File Type: pdf
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b-keytechdaypitchfest.pdf
File Size: 2746 kb
File Type: pdf
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SPONSORS

YOUR SPONSORSHIP $$ are written to a 501C3 organization  - see tax id below -  and maybe tax deductible.
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LEVELS of SPONSORSHIP: EVENT SPONSOR, PLATINUM, GOLD, SILVER & BRONZE

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SILICON VALLEY CODER'S CLUB IS REGISTERED UNDER NON-PROFIT (501C3),
​Tax Id  46-1442459


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