Was a great day at Agileana because we started our Summer Internship Hackathon attended by;
- Claire Scoggins, 2016 graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST)
- John Nguyen, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Christopher Hoang, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Joyce Duan, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Pranav Gulati, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Kunal Naik, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Farhan Farooqui, 2016 graduate of Chantilly High School
- Sydney Grace Miller, 2016 graduate of TJHSST
- Jenny Zhang, rising senior at TJHSST
- Jessie Shen, rising senior at TJHSST
Agenda for the day:
- Introductions
- Raison d’etre (Why is everybody here)
- Social media protocol
- Inspiration (Hotmail, Duolingo, Flickr, PayPal)
- Introduction to agile development
- Introduction to the products
What I thought was cool about today:
- Claire and Chris showed up an hour early, I like that!
- Sydney just got back from Barcelona and only had a few hours of sleep but sucked it up
- Farhan stayed well into the night and was the last person to leave
- Some of these folks are off to Yale, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, Virginia Tech, and Carnegie Mellon
- Some really expressed appreciation and gratitude for our hospitality and catering, thank you!
- Nobody decided to ditch us after lunch
Over the course of the next 6 weeks, these 17-18 year old high school graduates will create a startup, software as a service (SaaS), web application using agile development and lean startup methodologies. They get to work on a real-world application in a real-life scenario, which will help prepare them for college and career. People get to learn how to collaborate as a team and go through the natural processes of team development: form, storm, norm, perform. We will meet new people, develop relationships, learn something new, and apply our skills in new ways. Meanwhile, a traction team will focus on growth hacking to verify the market, gain traction, and a pursue hockey stick growth trajectory.
