R.I.P Me :(
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
Best wished, James !
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
Win, Lose, Or Draw, think about this.... How many high school students today, when they are thirty something, will ever have the foresight to think something like this through, ahead of time, when they are presenting something to, say, a thirty billion dollar company's executive board for their first shot at selling them their stuff ? Answer: One. You.
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I mentioned a while back that I would be doing a app development competition against a bunch of other high school students. Well today was the day I presented my app at the state conference. After networking with all my competitiors and seeing their apps. My team and I were confident that we could make it to the nationals from state and were really excited. We have a really nice Ionic app, that seemed to look better than many others. (I fell special being the only hybrid developer :) ) On the website, we were told we would have ethernet and HDMI access, but when we got to the room, all we were provided with was some ancient projector and tried to use an HDMI to VGA converter, that did not want to work with my friends MacBook Pro. After struggling for a few minutes, we explained to the judges what was going on and they agreed to allow us to present it on his Mac (oh boy). Our presentation turned out well (at least for not having our notes), and my team still feels like we have a chance, but I fell like we just went from top three material at state to maybe fifth place. Anyway, I am now anxiously awaiting tomorrow to see what goes on. Hopefully, we don;t get knocked for this stupid issue, but we'll see.
i cri evry tiem
Today is the day. Best of luck in this. And, yes, of no cable avail to show, while it is important to that of the "adaptation" within the current environment, do also learn of how to come as fully prepared as possible. However, of the "presentation" anomaly being a "factor", that's not what interests judges, being one myself in such this type of competition. "Does it run/work on the intended system?" is the first thing to answer. It seems you proved that, and then proved all the other factors (running & completing the demo). That is "success". Certainly, winning is the next "level" of that success. Let us know the outcome!
The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac. The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it. ~ my brother Jeff