Darwin Chavez
Digital Portfolio
Member of the Foshay Tech Academy
Shake-A-Goal
We are from Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles, California and our apps name is Shake-a-Goal. The app is solving high school procrastination and improving time management skills. The app keeps track of your goals and encourages the user to complete these goals in a timely manner by using reminders. It’s an educational tool because it functions to help students complete their academic goals
As the writer for the group, I wrote a press release to promote an event that promoted my group's app and the event we hosted to improve our community.
Link to the website: http://shakeagoal.weebly.com/
Contact: Darryl Beason
(310)-200-3719
Shake-A-Goal: An App Made by Students, for Students to Fight Procrastination
Tuesday, March 24th, 10:35-11:15
Foshay Learning Center
3751 S. Harvard, Los Angeles, CA 90018
On March 20, 2015, Shake-A-Goal will be hosting an event in conjunction with other teams from the Foshay Tech Academy to try to better our community through the use of technology and social media. With such incredible advances in these fields that have enhanced communication, we want to use these tools to impact our school community in a positive way. In addition to running an onsite marketing campaign, the students are hosting Tech Tuesday: Explore the Spirit of Foshay on Tuesday, March 24th from 10:35-11:15. An interactive event with games and food to let the audience experience the app for themselves.
Life as a high school student can be stressful. There’s so much school work, extracurricular activities, and other obligations hanging over us that just keeping track of them can be difficult. This is a big problem that has one clear solution: Shake-A-Goal.
Shake-A-Goal is an app created by Foshay Learning Center seniors to help manage these tasks and encourage students to complete them. The app gives its users a fun, interactive format to keep track of goals and encourage the user to complete these goals in a timely manner. How does it do this? By using reminders! Shake-A-Goal is an educational tool that functions to help students complete their work and achieve their academic goals.
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Support our app and our event as we look to technology and innovation to help students!
You can learn more about this initiative at http://shakeagoal.weebly.com/ and follow us on Twitter @ShakeAGoal
About Foshay Tech Academy: The Technology Academy introduces students to the broad career opportunities in today's digital workforce and, in the process, equips them with the personal, analytical, technical and communications skills they need to thrive. The Technology Academy was established in 1997 and operates as a "school within a school" as one of three small learning communities within the high school. The 170 Tech students receive an interdisciplinary curriculum in Technology, History, English, and Science from 10th grade to 12th grade. The Academy at Foshay Learning Center features a cutting-edge curriculum especially designed for students with an interest in technology.