“High school kids that do not have consistent after-school commitments and/or supervision need a way to get to the Boys and Girls Club to engage in purposeful and fulfilling activities.”
What will you test and how?
- Test the idea of having school buses alter their route in order to accommodate for teens from the high school to the Boy’s and Girl’s Club. How we will test this is to get a map of the current school bus routes from the various high schools and see if there are routes in which the school bus could take and the costs associated with adding a stop.
- Test a small 3 on 3 basketball tournament to only one high school to be hosted by the boys and girls club and then depending on the success, open it up to the other high schools in the area.
- Prototype a Boys and Girls Club Ride app that has the current position of the vans or buses that would be used to pick up teens. They would have the app and see the position and the estimated time of arrival of the ride.
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We will begin testing at the O.C. Carmichael Center, the Boys and Girls Club Flagship site. First running through the teens currently at the program and then possibly promoting it through the various high schools and getting feedback face to face with the teens through renderings of the app and whether they would be interested in the tournament.
The plan would be to develop a rendering of the app, showing a view of the screens that would be shown in its very infant stages.
Also, the plan is to attain the routes of the buses in the area coming from the high schools and show the routes that could be done in order to accommodate every student the best.