Preparing for the Business Expo, Part 1

Preparing for the Expo was a real "full court press."  There was so much to do.  We are all so busy with everything else that is going on at the end of the year - Reading Olympics, Model UN, band, choir, science fair, sports, and a thousand other activities.  It's getting hard to manage our time so we can get everything done.  Mrs. Costello posted a calendar to keep us on track.  Some people wasted time at the beginning, so they had to work at home in order to catch up.  Then, there were people with medical and other issues who missed a lot of school, but Mrs. Costello let them "telecommute."  The people who couldn't come to school called their partner and attended the class on speakerphone.  App Inventor is internet-based, and Google lets you collaborate online, so everybody was able to participate even if they couldn't come to school.

There was a lot to do to prepare for the Expo.  We had to code an entire app.  A lot of people had ideas that they didn't know how to code in App Inventor, so we had to look online and figure it out.  Then, we had to come up with a business plan.  We wrote mission statements and figured out our target market and decided how to price our app.  It's really overwhelming, but you feel good when you look back at how much you got done by working a little very day.