Genius+Hour

What is Genius Hour?
Genius Hour allows students to explore their own passions and encourage creativity. It provides the student a choice in what they learn.

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How did it start?
The search-engine giant, Google, allows it’s engineers to spend 20% of their time to work on any pet project that they want. The idea is very simple. Allow people to work on something that interests them, and productivity will go up. Google’s policy worked so well that it has been said that 50% of Google’s projects have been created during this creative time period. Ever heard of Gmail or Google News? These projects are creations by passionate developers that blossomed from their their 20-time projects. (www.geniushour.com)

(Created by one of A.J. Juliani's students during Genius Hour!)

Requirements
Step 1: Project Must be Approved by Me Step 2: Project Must be Researched Step 3: You Must Present and Share

Grading
Participation and blog entries will be graded. The actual project itself is not graded.

Need ideas?
Research something that you've always wondered about.... How does this work? Teach someone something .... Do something for someone else. Organize something. Photoshop Start a student website. Senior scrapbook Create a phone app Knit a scarf Develop an anti-bullying program for school Learn a new skill .... how to refinish a chair, how to play a guitar, how to use special effects with a camera, repair a small engine Make a stop-motion video .... Design a web page .... design an app Be daring! Think of all those things you haven't done because you didn't know how to do it....now you have time to learn how to do it! Design a video game ... learn animation Google Genius hour projects!

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