Please volunteer to help out with Startup Weekend EDU - June 2012.

1. Nurturing Education Innovations
By Learning From
Other Countries’ Academic Successes
Mark Lee
mlee@alum.mit.edu
Nov 2011

2. Need for New Education Ideas, Esp. For STEM
Why Are These Countries
Doing So Well Academically?
Finland
Singapore
What Can We Learn From Them?

3. New Technology Enables New Ideas
What Other Ideas Are Possible?
US$45
WP, Web browsing,
video conferencing,
http://www.slideshare.net/eden_online/nick-allen two USB ports,
256 MB RAM.
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4. Host an Education Startup Weekend
To Nurture Education Innovations
http://edu.startupweekend.org/

5. Host a Global Education Startup Weekend
To Collaborate Globally On Education Innovations
Sites : Physical Events
: Digital Collaboration
Helsinki
Physical
Events Orlando
Singapore

6. Each Site & Team Will Have Global Participation
Each Global Site Each Global Team
1 (2?) 1
On-Site Remote/Online
Educator Representative Educator Representative
from the other 2 Sites from the other 2 Sites

7. Solicit Funding For Global Collaborative SW EDU
Existing Proposed Global
Startup Weekends Startup Weekends – EDU
(Individual & Isolated) (Global Collaboration)
Startup Weekend Org Startup Weekend Org
Structure Structure Global
How-To’s How-To’s Collaboration?
Boston London Orlando Helsinki
Singapore Singapore
Individual & Isolated Peer-to-Peer
Events Global Collaboration

8. 1st Iteration of EDU Startup Weekend Website
https://sites.google.com/site/edustartupweekend/

9. Next Steps (as of Nov 15th)
Domestically Internationally
Form a Volunteer Team to Talk to the SG Government’s
Use Orlando National Institute of Education
As the US Site (http://www.nie.edu.sg/)
For the Global EDU To Participate
Startup Weekend as a Global EDU
Startup Weekend Site
Kickoff Meeting
6 pm, Nov 17 The NIE is Hosting
Lawton Chiles Prep School a Dec 2nd EDUCamp
http://www.educampsingapore.com/
Warmup Event?
Host an EDUCamp
e.g. @ Berkeley

10. As of Nov 28th, 2011
Domestically Internationally
Nov 17th Kickoff Meeting
1
Organizer
Warmup Event?
Host an EDUCamp
e.g. @ Berkeley
2 Might Present Remotely
@ The NIE’s 12/2 EDUCamp
3 Started Conversation with
NIE Faculty

11. Supplemental Slides

12. Google Supports Startup Weekend, Including EDU
Today, we’re announcing
a partnership with Startup Weekend—
a global organization committed to
promoting real entrepreneurship
in local communities. …
Participants gather on Friday, and (Announced Nov 10th, 2011)
by Sunday afternoon, they launch a product.
This partnership will help Startup Weekend expand to dozens of additional cities
around the world and launch new vertical competitions focused on specific
themes such as education, health or gaming.
… we’ll be working to bring in Google’s developer community in the form
of Google Technology User Groups as an additional resource to Startup Weekend
participants.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/supporting-entrepreneurs-around-world.html

13. Gates Foundation Supports Startup Weekend – EDU
($250,000)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has pledged $250,000
to the Startup Weekend EDU series of events,
the dedicated education-focused vertical
within the non-profit.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/07/startup-weekend-edu-receives-250000-grant-from-the-bill-melinda-gates-foundation/