Introducing:
JUMPstart edtech
August 27-30th. Weekend-long Startup Intensive
There's lots of problems in student education right now, and Jumpstart EdTech provides students the opportunity to innovate on these problems sprouted from COVID-19 and even the normal classroom.
Students will have a weekend to develop a tech startup idea focusing on improving the student experience using technology, and who’s better to do it than students themselves!
OUR keynote SPEAKER
General Timeline
Thursday, 8/27 – DAY 0
Friday, 8/28 – DAY 1
Saturday, 8/28 – DAY 2
Sunday, 8/30 – DAY 3
Team Building and Panels
Ease into the competition weekend through team building activities
Opening Ceremony
Connect with your team on Slack and watch the kickoff on YouTube Live.
Event Kickoff, Ideation, and Workshops
Start working on your idea! Define the problem your startup is solving, brainstorm your solution, and start the grind!
Learn from the Best
Live workshops from industry leaders and mentors.
Develop your Project
Work hard to construct your project, ask yourself and your team important questions, and build your startup framework.
Finalize your Solution
Finishing touches, couple more edits, and another run-through!​
Share pitch and project via Devpost
In just 5 minutes, you will showcase all of your hard work from the weekend through a video pitch.
Celebrate!
Check out other teams' projects through the Devpost project gallery and relax after a weekend of hard work.
Dr. Ai Addyson-Zhang is an educator and an entrepreneur. She received her MA and Ph.D. in Communication from Syracuse University and the University of Maryland. Ai is the founder of Classroom Without Walls, an alternative school to future proof the next generation.
As an Adobe Education Leader, Ai specializes in incorporating social media and creative technologies into traditional curriculum to enhance student engagement and acquire 21st-century skills. Ai’s work has been featured in Forbes, Inside Higher Education, Pearson Education, Entrepreneur, Today Show, etc.
Ai hosts two weekly live streaming shows, in which she interviews industry leaders in Business and Education, such as Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki. Ai additionally serves as an Adobe Education Leader and HubSpot Academy Instructor.
Ai frequently speaks at academic and industry conferences including Inbound, VidCon, Inbound, Social Media Day, Social Media Week Lima (the largest social media marketing conference in the midwest), and others.
Best business
Best overall
Best in
high school
Prizes
Best tech
Best business
Best overall
Best in
high school
For each category*, the top three teams will win...
1st place: $350
2nd place: $200
3rd place: $100
*No repeat winners
echoar prize
Using AR or VR in your solution? Use echoAR to get an AR/VR app running in less than 15 min!
All attendees get:
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Free Business Tier access to the echoAR platform (REGISTER HERE)
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If requested, 1-month free Business Tier access
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Real-time support through Slack channel #sponsor-echoar
The highest overall scoring team that uses echoAR gets:
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$50 Amazon gift card
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1-month free Business Tier access
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A feature in our newsletter (sent to investors and AR/VR ecosystem)
MUST use echoAR in your solution to be applicable to win echoAR prize!
streamlit prize
Trying to visualize data, make dashboards, and use stunning UI widgets–all in python? Use Streamlit to get a data app running quickly!
Top 10 winning teams get:
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Exclusive invitation to closed beta of Streamlit for Teams
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Features:
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One-click deployment for Streamlit apps
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Easy app management
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MUST use Streamlit in your solution to be applicable to win the Streamlit prize!
gener8tor/gbeta prize
gBeta provides the overall winning team with:
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1-hour individualized coaching session
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Open invite to join six virtual gBETA Lunch & Learn sessions where we’ll cover the following topics over the lunch hour for six weeks:
- Researching Your Market Size + Competition
- Determining Your Revenue Model and Pricing
- Comparables and Why They Matter
- Setting Your Financial Goals + Milestones
- How To Create a Pitch Deck
- How to Get Into An Accelerator
additional prizes
Bob Ross Painting Competition Winner
- Bob Ross is a really cool guy. Submit any painting (can be digital or paper) here in his honor for the chance to win $50!
Team Photo Raffle
- Submit a picture of your team here for a chance to win $50!
Workshop Attendee Raffle
- Attend atleast one workshop to be entered into the raffle to potentially win $50.
Referral Form Winner
- Refer friends through this form and whoever has the most referrals that register, gets $50!
Market Validation Winner
- During judging, the gallery will be open for attendees to vote on other startups. This acts as market validation, and the startup with the most votes wins $50!