MOBILITY LIVE HACKATHON – CPF PROJECT #2
Company:
Captain Planet Foundation
The mission of the Captain Planet Foundation is to give the next generation of environmental
stewards an active understanding and love for the natural world in which they live. Our vision is
to have generations of environmentally literate citizens who embrace their power to sustain the
air, water, land, and natural systems upon which all life depends. Our unique program of funding
and supporting hands-on environmental projects is designed to encourage innovative initiatives
that inspire and empower children and youth around the world as they work individually and
collectively, creating environmental solutions in their homes, schools, and communities.
Through its four main program areas, CPF invests in high-quality, solution-based programs that
empower youth to become environmental stewards and global environmental change-makers.
Those four programs include:
1. Small Grants Program – Funding for formal and informal educators who are providing
hands-on environmental education projects for youth in all 50 U.S. states and over 20
countries around the globe;
2. Project Learning Garden – Encouraging teachers to use school gardens as an onsite
learning laboratory, connecting students to food origins, and helping kids develop an early
palate for fresh fruits and vegetables and an affinity for natural systems.
3. Project Endangered Species – Encouraging students to act on their natural empathy to
help species that are endangered or threatened in the places where they live.
4. Captain Planet Leadership Center & SAGES – Providing educators with the best
practices, curriculum, and project protocols for youth environmental stewardship projects.
Through the Leadership Center, CPF has partnered with the Georgia Department of
Education on a project called SAGES which provides a pathway through the GA revised
performance standards in science that is based on the K-12 Framework for science
education and Next Generation Science Standards.
Description of the Project:
Captain Planet Foundation has brought Project Learning Garden to 170 schools in the metro Atlanta
area. We help schools build gardens, show teachers how to use those gardens as outdoor learning labs,
provide lessons and supplies for hands-on activities, and also give schools mobile garden cooking carts so
students can taste-test what they grow. In addition to fruits and veggies, students also plant flowers that
create habitat for pollinators like butterflies, birds and bees. During the summer, when kids are out of
school, Captain Planet Foundation staff helps teachers maintain school gardens and contribute the
harvests to neighborhood food pantries.
We need a mobile Project Learning Garden app that will make it easy for CPF staff to report on what
they do when they visit school gardens, how many pounds of food is harvested, and where it’s
donated. That information is currently collected on a bunch of separate WordPress forms. The app we
envision would also provide a way to flag gardens for follow-up, if there is any need or problem.
Presented by TAG, Mobility LIVE, and Promote Georgia’s Technology Industry Task Force
MOBILITY LIVE HACKATHON – CPF PROJECT #2
In addition, we’d like the app to include a portal for students, so each class can keep records of how
they use the school garden, what they plant, harvest and taste-test, as well as what they learn
outdoors.
Depending on the type of interaction, different information needs to be collected via this app.
Currently, there are numerous forms that are completed depending on the action, which can be
found at http://captainplanetfoundation.org/2014-summer-garden-management-form/. Ideally,
users would have an account to login and track their entries. We also need a means to flag a
site that needs follow-up, with the ability to add notes for why this site has been flagged.
Data from this app would be collected and imported manually into Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge. Field
names and constituent codes for Raiser’s Edge can be provided.
Wireframes / Screenshots (if any):
This is currently a new project, so no wireframes or screenshots exist. CPF team can work with
a team to develop them.
Technical Stack / Architectural Diagram:
This app will be used by CPF staff, likely from their own mobile devices. It would also be
available to students for class-based data input. It will therefore need to be compatible with iOS
and Android platforms, both phone and tablet.
API Integrations (if any):
N/A
Non-Functional aspects:
Project Contact:
Kathy Lively – Kathy@captainplanetfdn.org
Open Teleconference for Q&A:
Thursday, September 17 at 2pm EST
Wednesday, September 23 at 1pm EST
Presented by TAG, Mobility LIVE, and Promote Georgia’s Technology Industry Task Force