Books of the Month
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great and Ada's Ideas
Steve Jobs: Insanely Great
Every single one of you has interacted with an Apple product, and that is because of Apple's creator Steve Jobs. The graphic novel Steve Jobs: Insanely Great gives a biographical, image-based point of entry for all of those who wish to create and use technology to move the world forward!
Jobs’s remarkable life reads like a history of the personal technology industry. He started Apple Computer in his parents’ garage and eventually became the tastemaker of a generation, creating products we can’t live without. Through it all, he was an overbearing and demanding perfectionist, both impossible and inspiring. Capturing his unparalleled brilliance, as well as his many demons, Jessie Hartland’s engaging biography illuminates the meteoric successes, devastating setbacks, and myriad contradictions that make up the extraordinary life and legacy of the insanely great Steve Jobs.
Ada's Ideas: The Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer
The Challenge: Imagine/ Invent/ Design/ Improve upon a computer or program which you might need or use in the future
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower...Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs
Your challenge is to create/design a computer, device, or program that will be useful in the future.
Criteria and Constraints:
1.) Your design needs to be (at the very least) drawn or illustrated on a computer with a written explanation of how it works, what it provides/ how it's useful/ and tell how and why it will it be helpful to a community or the world.
2.) Your design CAN (and is encouraged) to have a prototype of some sort. You can build, draft, or draw your design, device, or program.
3.) Your innovation will be evaluated on the following criteria:
a.) Usefulness
b.) Materials/ Affordability (remember, technology costs money, but we are trying to make them available to as many people as possible.)
c.) Point of Inspiration: What motivated you to create this tool? Why would you like your device to be used and how would it help people?
d.) You may work alone, with a partner or team, or your family! No more than four to a team of classmates.
The deadline for your designs is due Wednesday January 25th in the library. Please make sure that all of the names of each contributor is on the entry. The strongest designs will be announced on Friday January 27th at Friday assembly.