What does the community need in terms of technology? What technology is the community asking for that Turing students can provide (given the students' skill-sets and given what technologies students are learning)?
Guiding questions:
- How can we as people, students, Turing-ians have the greatest benefit in the world?
- What is stopping us from having that benefit in the world?
- What do we have to offer in terms of time, skills, expertise, knowledge, effort?
- What community(ies) do we already participate in?
- In which community(ies) do we want to involve ourselves?
- What problem(s) do(es) th(os)e community(ies) face?
- Which of those problem(s) are we capable of addressing?
- Out of the problems that we are capable of addressing, which of those problems can we address in 6 weeks?
- What is the one problem that we feel best prepared to address during that time?
- What is a solution to that problem, and is the proposed solution viable?
- What is the smallest step we can take towards reaching that viable solution?
- What is the most that I can do alone to accomplish that task?
- What would I need to do during weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 to accomplish that task?
- What could another person contribute to my efforts?
- What choices and commitments would that second person need to make to become involved?
- What would that person be doing during weeks 1 - 6?
- What could a third person contribute to our collective efforts?
- What choices and commitments would that third person have to make to become involved?
- What would weeks 1 - 6 look like for that person?
- What could five people contribute?
- What would they need to choose to do and what would they need to commit?
- What would their weeks 1 - 6 look like?
- What about 10 people? Same questions as above.
- At the end of the six weeks, what would success look like for me?
- At the end of the six weeks, what would success look like for the group?
- What would continued success look like after the six weeks ends?
- What do I need to do to leave the project with the best chances for continued success?
- What would everyone else involved need to do individually to leave the project with the best chances for continued success?
- If I was not involved in the project, in what direction would I like it to travel?
- In our dream world, what would a successful outcome for this project look like?
- What benefit will we have had in the world?
Action Steps:
Get my camera. Document everything.
- Obtain a copy of Turing's nonprofit mission statement.
- Answer the questions above -- brainstorming session with Adam.
- Come up with an idea.
- Do as much research and planning as we can to build out the idea into a viable project.
- Break the project into a series of tasks that can be done by anyone.
- Distill the idea into a format that can be presented to a group of potential participants on Friday, July 10, 2015.
- Find a group of students willing to participate in activism/community outreach.
- Come up with a means through which interested people can become directly involved with the project at the July 10 meeting.
- Hold a brainstorming session on Friday, July 10th, 2015 during elective time.
- Leave the meeting on July 10 with clear sense of the next steps for everyone involved.
- Everyone else should leave the meeting on July 10 with clear expectations and a concrete understanding of their role.
The project MUST:
- Enrich Turing’s presence in the Denver/Colorado/(geographic) community
- Provide some tangible, measurable benefit to the community(ies) in which it is implemented
- SMART goals
- Project manager experience
- Be small enough to be encapsulated within a single module (or part of a module)
- Be flexible enough that it does not rely on the same students being involved in perpetuity
- Integrate with what students are already learning
The project MUST NOT:
- Increase a student’s workload
- Be dependent upon optional commitments
- Be over-ambitious and run over schedule
- Be over-complex so that it cannot be maintained beyond the Turing careers of the students involved
What does the community need in terms of technology? What technology is the community asking for that Turing students can provide (given the students' skill-sets and given what technologies students are learning)?