In short: we won!<\/p>\n
I took part in the first Education Startup Weekend<\/a> this past weekend, a great event where you try to create a viable startup over the course of 54 hours. You can read the NPR story here<\/a> or a great writeup from one of my teammates here<\/a>. My team created DemoLesson.com<\/a>, a career listing site for teachers where every teacher has a teaching video, so that school administrators doing the hiring can get real information much earlier in the process. You can see a splash page here<\/a>. The concept is pretty straightforward, but there’s a real need to be able to see teachers teach before flying them out for an in-person interview and demo lesson. I liken it to coding interviews for developers: you want to be able to see the person doing what it is you’re actually hiring them for. There was a lot of positive feedback from Teach For America, the charter school administrators we talked to, and the teachers we interviewed. The weekend was also a competition, and out of 14 competing teams, the judges thought ours was the most viable. It was a great team, a great experience, and a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In short: we won! I took part in the first Education Startup Weekend this past weekend, a great event where you try to create a viable startup over the course of 54 hours. You can read the NPR story here or a great writeup from one of my teammates here. My team created DemoLesson.com, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects","tag-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thomaslotze.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}