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Youth tackle challenge to help veterans through technology
Dream Tank Dream Makers, despite the snow, power through one big design challenge: innovate a b corporation to help Veterans! “Hacking for Heroes” was scheduled for two days, but because of the pending snow storm, when realizing they wouldn’t be able to come back the next day, the Dream Makers voted to stay until 8pm to finish their initial prototypes and designs. They pitched their ideas “Dream Tank Show” style. We will be publishing more videos, stay tuned!
Read more in the Daily Camera Article here
Great quotes from the article:
“It’s kind of a choose-your-own-adventure entrepreneurship challenge,” said program coordinator Melissa Ivey.
“We invited students to take their love of technology and align it with something purposeful,” said Heidi Cuppari, the chief of Dream Tank.
“The kids are going to be my focus group and my designers,” Debi Stack said. “The kids get to be advisers and they get to be a part of my company.”
Amalia Rose Battle Cordova, a 10-year-old from Boulder, said she liked the experiential format of the session and the opportunity for “kids to use their own ideas to help adults.”
Kids and Teens Save Lives with Tech during Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 25-26 @ CU Idea Forge
Virtual, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence have changed ‘reality’ as we know it.
Your children are growing into a world where these emerging technologies will be common tools, and toys in their lives.
Fortune 100 executive Debi Stack is asking your kids to collaborate in realizing new software with cutting edge technology, to save the lives of veterans, children and families in our community.
How can we use VR, AR, and AI to improve quality of life, enrich human connections, nourish healthy families and build thriving community?
Boulder’s 10-17 year olds, with the help of Dream Tank, mentors, and veterans will go through a DREAM – DESIGN – LAUNCH process with Debi, and a panel of experts participating, then leading a review, selecting advisors, and collaborators, on Tuesday afternoon.
Parents, get a little time back during Thanksgiving break, and give your kids a chance to make their community, and our world, a little better, and brighter for us all.
Event Details:
Monday, Nov 25 & Tuesday, Nov 26
9 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. both days
Location: Idea Forge at CU, in the Fleming Building
2445 Kittredge Loop Dr, Boulder, CO 80309
Hacking for Heroes
Dream Tank 2 day Social Impact Camp
Kids Save Lives with Tech!
This entrepreneurial, action-packed accelerator offers the unique opportunity for kids and teens ages 10-17* to creatively rise to their potential, learn how to collectively launch a social impact business, and share their ideas to shape the future.
Entrepreneurial, mission driven kids and teens ages 10-17, their families, and local veterans were invited to a design challenge sponsored by Debi Stack, a female Fortune 100 executive with extensive AI, VR and AR experience.
These two days of fun and learning were hosted by Dream Tank at the Idea Forge, CU Boulder.
How can we use VR, AR, and AI to improve quality of life, enrich human connections, nourish healthy families and build thriving community?
Attendees worked on:
- Identifying problems and solutions
- Conceptualizing and design software
- Inspiring the creation of a software company
- Learn about, and collaboratively realize a for benefit, or ‘B corporation’.
- Learn about, and apply emerging technology like artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality…
…to save lives in Boulder, and build software to save lives in communities worldwide.
All kids going through this program will be realized by Dream Tank, and Debi’s new VR/AR/AI project and be certified as a Dream Maker in our youth advisory squad. This qualifies them to join boards of real world companies and start or join advocacy campaigns.
Debi’s new VR/AR/AI project selected the best project designed by the group, choose advisors, board members and entrepreneurs to collaborate in the new enterprise at the event.
We highlighted the challenges of our heroes / veterans throughout the 2 days, and young people, with the help of mentors, went through a DREAM – DESIGN – LAUNCH process to come up with their own entrepreneurial solutions to invent, design, or launch a project, product or business related to SDG3: Good Health and Wellbeing, and happiness, worked on a design challenge to help launch a real Virtual Reality and AI benefit corporation and receive rewards for doing so.
We applied the use of STEAM skills and tools, especially tech in all aspects, including AI, VR, Gaming, blockchain, and brain science to come up with solutions. Includes help with individual projects and group design challenges. Mentors and experts in sustainable development, software, gaming, climate science, blockchain and more will be present throughout the week. Local and Seattle based tech companies and Virtual Reality Alliances have agreed to provide equipment for immersive, engaging experiences with A/R and V/R.
FRONT PAGE OF DAILY CAMERA: Youth share visions at Boulder Dream Tank to solve local problems
DREAM TANK – FRONT PAGE OF DAILY CAMERA
We are so honored to have been featured on the front page of the Daily Camera today. From article:
Entrepreneurial spirit encouraged among 17 kids set on protecting the environment
When 8-year-old Boulder resident Valentina Palumbo learned eight million tons of waste makes its way into the ocean every year, she wanted to find a way to clean it up.
Over the past week at the Dream Tank camp hosted at the Boulder Museum, she came up with a way she thinks can solve the problem.
Valentina on Friday afternoon at Riverside on Broadway in Boulder stood before an audience of several dozen people, including her camp peers, business leaders in the area, friends and family members, to pitch a device she hopes to invent called the “Recycling Bird.”
Read more here for the full article.
We couldn’t be prouder of our Dream Makers for standing up and sharing their ideas with the community. We can’t wait to see what’s next!
Dream Tank is raising funds and support to expand year round programs, develop an online platform and scalable toolkit to provide access to more kids and teens nationally as well as internationally. Please inquire to become a volunteer, donor or sponsor today!
