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## Durham Campus Final Projects

### Pitch Day

On Friday of week 9,

* Everyone gets a card the color of their class
* 2 minutes to pitch, 2 minutes for questions from staff

### Selection Process

* If you pitched with someone else and that group is picked (and you both voted for it), you will be together.
* We create groups of 3, 4, or 5 people.
* We try not to put together any groups that all come from the same course.
* We avoid known personality conflicts from earlier in the class.

### The Schedule

* Monday, Thursday of week 10
* Monday, Thursday of week 11
* Monday of week 12
* Feature freeze on Monday of week 12
* Code freeze on Wednesday of week 12

### Mentoring

### Daily Stand-ups

### Check-ins

### Demo Day

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## Durham Campus Final Projects

In Durham, we have designed our own final project approach, and have created this document to share its details with the entire company.

### Pitch Day

On Friday of week 9, we hold a "Pitch Day."  Each student is required to pitch an idea for two minutes, and then is asked questions by staff for up to two minutes.  During this time, other students cannot ask questions.

Although each student is required to pitch, they ARE allowed to pitch in pairs (so long as both partners speak).

At the end of the pitches, students can mingle and ask each other questions for half an hour.  Each student takes an colored index card (pink == Ruby, green == Python, etc), and they write down their top five choices (in order).  They are not required to vote for their own pitch if there are others they prefer, but if they do vote for their own, we ask them to circle their idea (for the staff's convenience).

### Selection Process

After the discussion, the staff collects all the index cards and goes offsite.  We match up groups, attempting to optimize the following criteria:

* We want to assign you to one of your first few choices.
* If you pitched with someone else and that group is picked (and you both voted for it), you will be together.
* We create groups of 3, 4, or 5 people.
* We try not to put together any groups that all come from the same course.
* We avoid known personality conflicts from earlier in the class.

Thus far, when students vote for five choices, we've never had a student who wasn't assigned to one of his/her choices.

### The Schedule

* Monday, Thursday of week 10
* Monday, Thursday of week 11
* Monday of week 12
* Feature freeze on Monday of week 12
* Code freeze on Wednesday of week 12

### Mentoring

### Daily Stand-ups

### Check-ins

### Demo Day

Write first few sections of final project document.
Write first few sections of final project document.
