STARS - Schedule

Schedule for Spring 2016

This schedule is still tentative

Week	Date	Topics	In Class Activity	Homework
1	Jan 15	Introduction to the Course and Service Learning	Group remixes
2	Jan 22	No Class - Snow day
3	Jan 29	Introduction to Management: how the industrial revolution shaped modern management theory.	Sandwich shop scenario Discuss team products	Preliminary Project Proposals Watch 2 Videos from Management Section
4	Feb 05	Workshop Day: each team member in a workshop.	Proposal writing workshop Project lifecycle workshop Product development workshop Organizational technology workshop Leadership workshop	Bring workshop materials to class
5	Feb 12	Marketing and Community Development (Communities of Practice, Crowdfunding, and Crowdsourcing)
6	Feb 19	First Milestone Day	Peer Review Establish project plan Discuss evaluation plan	Project Proposal Draft Due Organizational Structure Due Individual Evaluation Plan Due
7	Feb 26	Preliminary Funding Presentation	Convince a panel of faculty members to invest in your startup.	Funding Pitches Due
8	Mar 04	No Class - I'm at a Conference
9	Mar 11	No Class - Spring Break
10	Mar 18	Prep for Julia Robinson Mathematics and Computing Festival
11	Mar 25	No Class - University Holiday
12	Apr 01	Lab Tours	Robotics, HCI, Visualization, Security, 49th Cyber Security
13	Apr 08	Concept Review and planning
14	Apr 15	Validation: research methods to evaluate outreach effectiveness	Graduate school panel
15	Apr 22	Moving Forward: self-promotion workshop	Resume / CV writing workshop Personal website workshop
16	Apr 29	Public Speaking workshop	Public speaking practie for the IPO day	Final Team Assessments Due
17	May 06	IPO: Initial Public Offering	Your startup goes public. Present the progress that your startup made throught the semester to a group of investors (faculty members, students, friends, etc)