Idea napkin no. 2

1)    You

I’m Lauren Lytle, a sophomore at the University of Florida, majoring in English with a minor in Innovation. My talents are I’m creative in writing and coming up with ideas, I am visual with art and in my writing, and I am good at soccer. My skills and experience are I’m great with kids, as a counselor assistant I’ve always connected with kids and related to them. Also while working at an adoption center, I’ve found I connect with animals. If I were to start this business it wouldn’t be for the money, I would feel good about helping people who need it.

2)    What are you offering to customers?

I am offering an app for special education students that covers education and value. For students at home who don’t have activities at home and aren’t paying their full attention to their school work. 

3)    Who are you offering it to?

It would be offered to both the special needs student and the parent. They all have in common a new style of educating special needs children at home.

4)    Why do they care?

It’s a new advance for special needs students who receive schooling at home, if they aren’t paying attention in classes and as involved in physical activities. 

5)    What are your core competencies?

This isn’t just any child’s education game, its made just for special needs children, fitting their behaviors and what they are learning. What I have that nobody else has is time and an opportunity, with this virus sending children to home schooling; this gives special education students more time to play and learn through the app, an opportunity with the block special education students have faced with online lessons.

I think almost everything fits together, but the only thing I’d have to push more on is making this app as original as possible, with other apps out there existing like this with educating special needs children. I feel like the other elements back each other up though, and make me more confident especially with what’s setting me apart from everyone else.

My feedback was very positive, but what I took away from it is that I’ve volunteered as a counselor’s assistant at a children’s summer camp, I need to volunteer with just special needs children. I also haven’t been in the online schooling environment with special needs children.