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Find Your Ninja Project:Apps for Good
Apps for Good
 At this event, around 10 Tech Companies will pitch their coding projects in a series of 5-minute lightning sessions to software developers looking for interesting, agile projects using progressive technologies.
Apps for Good is an award-winning and exponentially growing education programme where young people in schools learn to create apps that solve problems they care about and change their world.
We are supported by hundreds of leading-edge technology entrepreneurs, UX designers and developers as expert volunteers (working for Google, Techlightenment, ThoughtWorks, Zolmo, Novoda, the Apps Business, OrangeLabs, Forward Internet Group – just to name a few) and tech industry partners like Facebook, Dell, Thomson Reuters, RIM, Ogilvy and O2.
Teachers trained by the Apps for Good team deliver a 50-70 hour software product development course to students aged 12-18 years. We currently operate in 40 schools training 1,300 students but are aiming for 10,000 students by the 2012/2013 school year and a global movement from 2013 onwards.
In January 2012 the UK Education Secretary Michael Gove called the current ICT curriculum “demotivating and dull”. He then announced that in order to equip young people with knowledge and skills for the future, schools will have the freedom to design their own programmes of study in software development. And he mentioned Apps for Good as an example of best practice that could be adopted by schools across England to fill the gap.
What technologies Apps for Good use on projects
We need developers with experience in open web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, SVG, JavaScript and jQuery. The platform will support UTF-8 data.
Developer Recruitment
We are looking to recruit a Lead Developer (60% Back-end, 20% Front-end, 20% Manager) with the following skills:
- Referenceable experience of building, deploying and scaling production commercial high traffic web applications.
- Excellent Software Development skills (5-10 years).
- Proven experience with evolutionary design.
- Experience developing in Ruby on Rails (preferred), Python, Java, PHP, or any scripting/dynamic language.
- Solid experience using SQL and NoSQL databases like MySql, Postgres, Mongo DB, Cassandra, Redis a plus.
- Creative, resourceful and innovative problem solver.
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to facilitate communication within and between engineering and business teams.
- Ability to translate technical requirements to business audience and business requirements to technical audience.
- Promoter of agile development techniques.
- Mobile (Android/iOS) experience a big plus.
The Apps for Good programme engages different audiences to create massive value:
- teachers
- students
- experts
- Apps for Good core team
- funders
Until now we have matched these audiences and managed the process manually and very successfully: developing award-winning courses, enabling educators to run and deliver Apps for Good courses effectively, allowing students to upload and publicise their work as they go through the course step-by-step and matching schools courses with experts to provide feedback and share their professional knowledge.
With the growth rates and numbers of students we are looking at from September 2012 and our aim to create a global movement mid-term, we are working on creating an open online tool where this engagement can happen in a highly scalable way. (For a summary of the user interactions see here.)
ABOUT JOHN ROTHERHAM
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John Rotherham is Technical Advisor and Consultant Product Manager at Apps for Good. He is also the founder of Suffolk Creative, a product management services business that provides consulting, contractors & training.
More about John Rotherham
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ABOUT IRIS LAPINSKI
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Iris is the founder of Apps for Good, an award-winning and exponentially growing education programme where young people in schools learn to create apps that solve problems they care about and change their world.
More about Iris Lapinski
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ABOUT THE FIND YOUR NINJA PROJECT
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We are organising some evening events, dedicated to help development teams find new colleagues, and where developers (and project or product managers, architects, testers..) can find out about some really cool projects.
More about the Find Your Ninja Project
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This session took part at the Cool Projects in April. You can view the other 10 podcasts here.
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