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Jeff Herb -\xa0InstructionalTechTalk.com\xa0-\xa0@InstTechTalk
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Chris Nesi -\xa0Education the Nesi Way\xa0-\xa0@MrNesi
David Saunders\xa0@DesignSaunders
Josh Gauthier\xa0@mrgfactoftheday

About our Guests:
Crescerance:\xa0@crescerance

Alefiya\xa0believes that involved communities result in higher academic and social outcomes, stronger values, and increased future success for students. Her degree in psychology and education from Emory University, along with her training and experience as a Montessori teacher, power her passion for wide-scale education improvement. It is this passion that led her to start her company\xa0Crescerance\xa0(cris-seer-unce) in 2011.
In Crescerance\u2019s short lifespan of just over 3 years,\xa0Alefiya\xa0has enabled over 150 educational institutions in America and throughout the world to better communicate with and engage their communities through the growing power of mobile.\xa0Alefiya\xa0is passionate about making mobile an easily available and powerful channel to thousands of schools worldwide. She is now focussing on brining the concepts and tools of app development to students as young as the 3rd grade by enabling them to build mobile apps with the newly launched\xa0MAD-learn\xa0program. In her spare time, she enjoys touring the world, meeting new people, learning new languages, and experiencing new cultures. She is also a closet adrenaline junkie who loves the occasional sky or sea dive expedition.
Crescerance began its journey in 2011 with the simple idea of wanting to make it easier for schools to connect and truly engage with their parents, staff, students, alumni, and community at large. Through working with schools in creating their school apps (so that everyone could be connected through Mobile and have quick, easy access to the information they needed), we met students that had a keen interest in not just using the app that we created for their school, but in wanting to learn about the creation process of that app.\xa0"How did you make our app?" was a question that we got asked through numerous in person or Skype calls from teachers wanting to bring an App Developer perspective to their students. This is where MAD-learn was born. It was born from the curiosity of our students. From their quest to know more and absorb more. From our passion to feed that curiosity.MAD stands for Mobile App Development and MAD-learn is a program that is teaching students how to be Creators of Technology, instead of just Consumers of it. To learn more about MAD-learn, watch this video:\xa0MAD-learn.com
StoryboardThat:\xa0@StoryboardThat
Aaron Sherman is the founder and creator of Storyboard That.\xa0 As the creator he loves watching people expand their creativity and problem solving skills as they create Storyboards.\xa0 Prior to starting Storyboard That Aaron worked in senior roles in both technology and marketing in Boston, Barcelona and Sydney.\xa0www.storyboardthat.com
PledgeCents:\xa0@pledgecents
Bio \u2013 Andyshea is a social entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. He attended Rhodes College for his undergraduate studies and later attended the Conrad Hilton College (at University of Houston) for his graduate degree. Andyshea worked over 8 years in the hospitality industry both international and domestic. He comes from a family that has always emphasized the importance of a great education and philanthropy. Andy\u2019s mission in life to is to make a difference and leave the world a better place than he entered.
Andyshea@pledgecents.com
PledgeCents is Bake Sale 2.0. We are democratizing K-12 educational fundraising by allowing schools to raise funds faster, easier, and reach a larger audience. The secure platform has helped put over $115,000 back into classrooms in 27 states and impacting more than 26,000 students. The PledgeCents team has one focus \u2013 to help provide every student with more educational resources.
JettPakk:\xa0@katherinejetton
Katherine Jetton is the founder and CEO of Jettpakk, a education technology platform that will enable teachers to more effectively help their students learn Common Core material and offer grading tools. Katherine worked with middle school students through the Teach For America program and her students outperformed their peers on Dallas Independent School District Semester Exams by 25 percent during her second year of teaching. After experiencing first hand the difficulties of teaching students who have been previously underserved, Katherine saw the need for Jettpakk, a tool that can save teachers their time, money and energy. Katherine is actively involved in the startup and technology community in Raleigh, NC and is a project manager and product manager of Triangle\u2019s Code for America. Katherine graduated from University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Psychology with honors.
Jettpakk is a platform that will aide teachers in educating their students and set up a Culture of Achievement. Jettpakk provides teaching content such as quizzes and lesson plans through a Teacher Wiki in addition to an analytics platform which can help with grading and parent-student-teacher communication. Jettpakk won 3rd place in Raleigh\u2019s Triangle Startup Weekend for Women. Jettpakk is currently in the process of incorporating with\xa0CT\xa0and seeking funding to build out additional features.
Recommended Reading\xa0

The Lean Startup
The Founder's Dilemma
http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Entrepreneurship/dp/0691158304

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