App Building for Entrepreneurs

The GW Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship in partnership with Ycenter presents our newest bootcamp “App Building for Entrepreneurs” an experiential and interactive bootcamp focusing on how to create digital app solutions for startup, business, and social venture founders.

From food delivery to finding your next movie (and finding a date to the movie), in today’s world, people need solutions on their fingertips (quite literally). Cell and mobile phones have become ubiquitous with how one deals with everyday life. Yet many entrepreneurs and innovators are unsure how to go about conceptualizing, designing, and making apps user friendly and solve the customers problems. Often saying, “I need to get a developer” before taking the necessary and important steps that happen before you actually need to pay for a developer.

This experiential and interactive 2 day workshop exposes students to learn key techniques for building an app from scratch. How do you go from Planting an Idea seed to Creating a full blooming mobile application?! This workshop focuses on App development from a non-technical perspective. In the world of no code and low code applications, there are several tools available to build and deploy apps in much simpler ways.

Through the course of two days, students will learn, ideate, build and explore new ways to solve real problems using technology app driven solutions. We will use a combination of Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile methodology to easily build an app from the ground up.

This event will be held over the course of 2 days. Please see below for the exact times.

• Friday, September 24: 10am - 4pm
• Saturday, September 25: 10am - 3pm

Lunch will be provided both days for all participants (vegetarian options will be available).

This bootcamp is for those who are interested in taking their ideas for solving some real problems using mobile based app solutions.

If you’re interested in getting constructive feedback on your ideas, gain practical skills to use no-code applications for building apps, this is for you.

1. Learning how to use design thinking to map real problems solvable through mobile apps
2. Build a product development roadmap to guide your project
3. Hands-on experience for using no-code applications

Ycenter is a Global Experiential Education enterprise. They have created and delivered hands-on workshops for entrepreneurs in 15+ countries across four continents. From working on social ventures in Africa to developing technology-driven apps in the U.S. and India.

Dhairya Pujara is the Founder, CEO at Ycenter, he is responsible for building a global ecosystem bringing in corporates, universities, NGOs for creating experiential educational programs. Dhairya is the curator for "Global Shaper Hub Philadelphia" by World Economic Forum. He has been a global TEDx organizer and a sought-after public speaker on entrepreneurship and international development. He delivers keynote and guest lectures in some of the top business schools and conferences around the globe. Dhairya sits on the advisory board for European Commission program LASIN - Latin American Social Innovation network and a National Board member at Social Enterprise Alliance. In 2015, American Immigration granted him an approval for a special category work visa reserved for "an individual of extraordinary abilities”. He received his Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University.

This workshop is limited to 25 GW student participants only. We will create a waitlist after 25 people RSVP.

Please note that priority will go to GW student registrations for this event.

The GW I+E Lab is located in Heyday Workplace on the 7th floor at the 2000 Penn building. Upon arrival to the 2000 Penn building, guests need to locate the main office lobby in the central area of the 1st floor. Guests will know they are in the right location once they see the security guard desk and a bank of elevators. Please notify the security guard that you are going to an event on the 7th floor in the Heyday Workplace, and they will let you up the elevators.

Please note that this is an in-person event. Event participants may be required to wear masks or other PPEs depending on event space protocols.

IMPORTANT: All GW students, staff, and faculty must bring and present their GWorld card. You will not be let into the event without proof of your GW affiliation via your GWorld card.

Per GW’s current COVID-19 policies, all non-GW visitors to campus must attest that they are vaccinated, or if they are unvaccinated, attest that they have received a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours prior to their visit to campus.

The university will require that all visitors coming to campus for tours, meetings, activities and university events to follow the protocol below:

1. Register with the university at go.gwu.edu/visitor.
2. Complete a COVID-19 symptom screening form.
3. Attest that they are vaccinated. If visitors are unvaccinated, they need to attest that they have received a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of their visit to campus.
4. Following completion of the form, visitors will receive a registration confirmation to the email address provided.
5. Provide a copy of the registration confirmation to their campus host upon arrival.

If visitors are unvaccinated, they will need to arrange testing on their own before visiting campus. Visitors are not eligible for COVID-19 testing at GW’s test centers. If a visitor is unable to present an approved registration form, they are not permitted to access university facilities. Guests who are visiting spaces open to the public, such as dining areas, will not be subject to these procedures. GW’s residence halls continue to operate with a no outside guest policy.

These new visitor requirements are intended as a phased approach for addressing regular visitors to campus throughout the year. Please note that large-scale events may require proof of a COVID-19 vaccine or a negative COVID-19 test result upon entrance

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

I+E Lab (7th Floor, Heyday Workplace), 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, United States