Prototype Demonstration

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New Language Tutor

• Prototype Demonstration

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Organization
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Los niños son nuestra futuro.

• The children are our future.

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Problem Statement

• The Public Schools System requires that
  individual students develop and demonstrate first
  grade reading skills to advance to the second
  grade. Developing reading skills is a challenge
  for first graders. First graders, whose primary
  language is other than English, have an
  additional (language) barrier to overcome in
  order to develop their reading skills.

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Background

• 28 million Americans ages 5 and older speak
  Spanish at home.
• 31 of children from Spanish speaking homes have
  limited English proficiency (LEP).
• Hispanic children with LEP perform below their
  grade level in elementary school
• Budgetary cuts are reducing the number of
  bilingual teachers.
• Department of Education Census, 2004

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Solution

• Create a computer based reading tutor that will
  help children overcome language barriers.

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Goals and Objectives

• Build an effective NLT
• Capture English text from childrens book
  utilizing a COTS hand scanner
• Develop translation software
• Evaluate and test NLT
• Have NLT in full production as planned

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Example of User Display
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NLT Product Functional Diagram
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Data Flow Diagram for Product
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NLT Product Functional Diagram
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NLT Prototype Functional Diagram
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Building the Prototype Dictionary
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Data Flow Diagram for NLT Prototype
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Demonstration

• Seven iterations
• scan one word
• scan one word
• scan one sentence
• scan one sentence
• scan nonstandard text
• scan sentence from book
• Scan nonstandard text from book

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Risks

• Commercially available scanners are not suitable
• The product is ineffective
• Competing product developed

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Risk Mitigation

• Scanner research and development plan
• Evaluation and test plan
• Timely development plan

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Phase II Milestones
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Phase III Milestones
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Proposed Budget Federal Funds
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Proposed Budget Non-Federal Funds
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Financial Plan

• SBIR
• Virginia Center for Innovative Technology
• SoftWorks, Incorporated

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First Quarter Financial Plan
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Second Quarter Financial Plan
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Third Quarter Financial Plan
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Fourth Quarter Financial Plan
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Conclusion

• We have identified the problem
• Feasibility of the NLT solution is proven by
  prototype
• Outlined project plan
• We have solid financial plan
• The New Language Tutor should be funded and
  developed