Nov 24, 2021Mentoring (chess game + environment) project for 3 middle schoolers for a year during the tough times…By Grant Cheng(ACF Startup team “Ecohero” coach) After more than a year of work, the Ecohero team has slowly but surely created their environmentally-based chess app from scratch. Alvin, Dohyun, and Jarron have gone from no experience in JavaScript to developing a full-blown, competition-worthy chess app built almost entirely from…5 min read
Nov 23, 20215 Things I Learned About Leadership and Project Management With A High School Startup TeamBy Michael Vaganov In February 2020, just before the pandemic lockdowns began, a small team of humble high school students got together to form a startup team with Applied Computing Foundation: Tong (a full stack web developer in a high school senior costume), Audrey (an archetypal over scheduled teen Zoomer)…12 min read
Sep 18, 2021One year of MAC(Monthly App Challenge) Journey 🙌~MAC Team Blog 2021 Who We Are: Our Monthly App Challenge (MAC) Team mainly consists of a group of high schoolers who connected through our passion for coding to provide a platform for everyone which includes both adults and kids where they can refine their coding skills and apply their coding knowledge to…9 min read
Sep 17, 2021Why “EN(Engineering Notebook)” is essential fabric of teen entrepreneurship & K~12 coding classrooms📓For your K-12 Coding Classrooms: Engineering Notebook In your classroom, how can you measure student topic understanding? Have students understood the concept? Can they successfully code outside the classroom? What is an Engineering Notebook? Engineering notebook, developed in a Google Doc, allows students to organize their learnings and reflect on them. While capturing learning minutes for the…3 min read
Sep 9, 2021Pithon Protector’s journey 🐍 🎮In this class, Python Math Entrepreneurship, Andrew, Adrian, and I (Jonny) created the team. Our mission is to create a fun and educational game to help the underserved communities and enhance their learning. This game that we are making is free and aims to help middle school students. After discussing…5 min read
Aug 31, 2021A breakfast at SF (NOT Tiffany) with our mentor Ms.Bagley 🍳On a chilly and foggy morning(mind you this is a very typical summer morning weather in San Francisco believe or not), ACF PyroTamer team(a team launched 9months ago to develop “resource detection app” for the firefighters) got together at 55 Grace street (Non Fiction Company headquarter). This was an incredibly…4 min read
Aug 26, 2021A day of team building, research and good food 🤝, 📝, 🥟RhinoCharge is committed to using real-world and user research as the primary driver of our product development. To continue our research into chargers in the real world, we decided to go to San Francisco, a major center for EVs and other forms of tech. Per our research, the city has…11 min read
Aug 25, 2021Immersion into building the first functioning prototype(aka “MVP”)- part 1by ACF PyroTamer 👩🏻🚒 Web app development: Currently, our program has a couple of important functions that are crucial to our program. The most vital component is the resource location function. This allows the user to place resource points at their designated longitude and latitude coordinates. The user is able to update, delete…3 min read
Aug 25, 20214 middle school students who are building their dream 3D Unity multiplayer tank game from scratch…A journey started a year ago and still going strong 💪Leading up to this season 3, the Slurpin’ snakes was a very ambitious team in a nutshell. They consisted of 4 middle school students from two different states(CA, FL) and met every week over Zoom and Discord to develop their insanely ambitious game using rigorous task management tool(Airtable) and Lean…6 min read
Aug 25, 2021Mentor series- EcoHero with Mrs.TaylorOur trip to meet our very first advisor was very thrilling. The planning was very complicated as well but meeting Ms.Taylor and the whole trip was so delightful. Our first job meeting her was to actually plan the trip. Since everyone in the team had summer camps and complex schedules…4 min read
