Clear your calendar - It's going down! The NOLA Disaster Preparedness DOtank kicks off on Saturday, August 22nd, and you're invited!
If you're a teenager (or a kid at heart) who cares about building a better world, this event will introduce you to rapid prototyping and design skills to create solutions to some of New Orleans's most challenging issues... all in an intense, 8-hour sprint. Hold on, this is going to be epic!
Open to participants 13 and older!
9:30am
Welcome! Doors Open.
10:00am
Warmup Actitivity
10:30am
Opening presentations! A quick intro to the day's activities before we get our hands dirty...
11am
Fact collecting in a room of experts.
11:45am
Meet the Coaches.
12:00pm
Brainstorming rotations, facilitated by the coaches - it's time to come up with some great ideas!
12:30pm
Lunch & Intro to Rapid Prototyping
1:30pm
Pitch time. Think you've got a great idea? Share in 90 seconds or less and recruit a team. Participants will form groups of 3-5 teens to work with for the rest of the afternoon. You'll also recruit a coach who will work with you as much or as little as you like to help you prototype your idea.
2:00pm
Build your first prototype
3:30pm
Test your first prototype.
4:00pm
Build your second prototype and prepare to pitch your idea.
5:00pm
Present your idea to our panel of judges!
6:00pm
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes, and I'm afraid it's time again to say, well... goodbye. Thanks for joining the NOLA DOtank!
