Conference Schedule
The MLTI student conference features three components to help students develop the research, ideation, and prototyping skills that lie at the heart of every succesful innovator.
The MLTI student conference features three components to help students develop the research, ideation, and prototyping skills that lie at the heart of every succesful innovator.
Pre-Conference
May 13, 2021
12:00pmTopic:
Event type:
The Pre-Conference experience begins at 12 pm on May 13 and runs all the way up to the day of the virtual conference. Aside from a live Q&A session on Friday, May 14, the pre-conference experience consists of a number of asynchronous activities that allow participants to submit preferences for block sessions, review the innovation challenge categories, and review resources related to the conference pitch competition and $10,000 prototype challenge.
In doing so, participants begin to exercise and develop research skills related to the first step in the design-thinking process: "Understand."
Q&A Session May 14, 2021 at 3:30pm
Meeting ID: 867 5351 4974
Passcode: 062103
Conference
May 20, 2021
9:00am- 3:30pm
The 2021 virtual conference introduces students to a variety of educational technologies to help “Reinvent Remote Learning’, including animation, augmented reality, design, gaming, music, productivity, robotics, and video.
Participants will gain knowledge, deepen existing skills, and develop new skills. Additionally, they will experiment with different tools and resources that prepare them for the "Explore" phase of the design-thinking process.
*subject to change
May 20, 2021
3:00pmEvent type:
Prototype Challenge Office Hour
Password: reinvent
Building off of their experience at the conference, participants can choose to continue on to the $10,000 Innovation Challenge. In this phase, student participants pair up to develop an innovation in one of the four challenge categories to help Reinvent Remote Learning in Maine.
In the spirit of the "Materialize" phase of design-thinking, team entries will be evaluated on how well they have researched, explored, and applied their conference skills to create a prototype of their product. The prototype can be in the form of an executive summary, slide deck, demo of the product, all three forms, or some other representation of the innovation! A winner will be selected in each of the challenge categories and each student on the team receives a $1,000 scholarship award from UMaine. Additionally, winning teams receive an invitation to further develop their projects over the summer through a special Incubator program through the CATES Center for Social Innovation.
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