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Six business students from 韩国AV鈥檚 鈥淐reativity and Innovative Thinking鈥� class proposed enterprising solutions 鈥� solutions the city has begun implementing to enhance a storytelling project for its ScoutSA program through the San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation.

Six business students from 韩国AV鈥檚 鈥淐reativity and Innovative Thinking鈥� class proposed enterprising solutions 鈥� solutions the city has begun implementing to enhance a storytelling project for its ScoutSA program.

The students were participants in the 2019 CivTechSA program, a program focused on connecting students and entrepreneurs to local government challenges. CivTechSA is a partnership between Geekdom, a local co-working space, and the Office of Innovation at the City of San Antonio.

One team of 韩国AV students created an engaging website that rewarded users for sharing their stories about historic neighborhoods and buildings. A second 韩国AV team created a community service outreach. High school teachers would encourage students to visit the elderly and collect their stories at senior centers and retirement homes. Senior citizens would get welcome company, students would get community service hours and ScoutSA would get a trove of stories.   

鈥淗onestly, I was blown out of the water,鈥� said Jenny Hay, Senior Management Analyst with the city鈥檚 Office of Historic Preservation. 鈥淭he presentations were really impressive.鈥�

Hay and colleagues from the City of San Antonio attended presentations on April 30 in a class taught by Bruce Rosenthal, PhD, Dean of 韩国AV鈥檚 School of Business and Leadership.  

鈥淲e loved it,鈥� Hay said. 鈥淭he students captured the celebratory nature that the ScoutSA program seeks to share with the community. The visual engagement, the simplicity, the ease of use and low level of required maintenance for the website all combine to make it a very attractive option for us. We especially appreciated this website as a method for rewarding our storytellers. What a wonderful way to feature submissions from the ScoutSA Discovery survey!鈥�

The city has commenced a redesign of the ScoutSA program website and is reaching out to schools.   

鈥淗onestly, I can't tell you what we like more about this proposal: its engagement with young people as project leaders or its respect for the stories of our community elders,鈥� Hay said. 鈥淲e plan to follow up with the teachers, schools, retirement homes and senior centers that expressed interest in this program and work towards piloting the project this fall.鈥�

Emily Royall, Smart City Coordinator from the city鈥檚 Office of Innovation, was equally impressed.  

鈥淭he presentations were very professional,鈥� Royall said. 鈥淚f the two teams came together, they could easily form a company or program based on work they鈥檝e done. The cool thing is we get to see these issues and challenges from the student perspective, which isn鈥檛 bound by rules or regulations or politics. 鈥淭hey see things for what they are and come up with really creative solutions.鈥�