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REVIEW: Hello Noan. Your elevator pitch hooked me in. I really enjoyed watching it. I need to learn how to use videoscribe! I looked over your venture pitch and I can tell you researched a lot and found your competitors. I liked the idea of finding games for teachers and then being able to use them in the classroom. I think learning through gaming is becoming huge nowadays in the classroom, so I can see how your venture would be applicable. Students learn and retain more when they are playing. Teachers can easily acquire game pieces off your website and then implement them in the classroom. I was wondering the same thing about the money about your venture and how did you arrive at that number. I can't wait to see where this goes! Great job!

REVIEW: Hello Heather. I really like your concept. I worked in South Africa and Fiji where I volunteered with orphans who can not read, write or do math and it totally broke my heart. I love your idea and I can see you have done the research to find out the numbers and how it can work in communities. I think it's so important for global education and having children everywhere learning how to read and equipping them for their future. I would like to invest in your venture because I feel a strong connection with your idea and it speaks to me with my core. It's interesting, as I watch the elevator pitches, I'm choosing the ones with non-profit or goodwill in the root of the pitches. I am so drawn to improving the world for the better and I think your venture would do that. I would feel confident and happy to associate my money and myself with you. It reminds me a little of TOMS shoes concept. I like your layout of your A3 and it was easy to read along. I like the visuals and written part because it was simple enough to get, but also shows you were very well researched and you put your heart into it. Thank you for sharing your idea.

REVIEW: Hello Tomek. I really enjoyed your 1 minute elevator pitch. It just pulled on my heart and I know my students have a hard time at school. With the statistics, I can only imagine how devastating it can be to lose a student to mental health. As educators, we want to support and be there for our students. I would love to invest in your company because I believe in the cause. I believe we need to create a support system for the most vulnerable students in our schools, especially in a country where they don't feel supported or they feel very isolated under the pressure of achieving. I couldn't find your 8 minute venture video, but I did read over your materials. I think your team seems very qualified and I like the steps on how to find a community to help with mental problems. I'm surprised this hasn't already happened in Japan with the high suicide rates in Asia. Coming from an Asian background, I know how tough it can be in high school with the pressure to succeed academically and also growing up in a dysfunctional family. Pressure from school and home can lead to bleak moments, but having an outlet, somewhere, someone understands how difficult life can be, it can save us.

I just changed it to public I believe. I'm sorry. I am having technical difficulties with my iMovie to YouTube uploads. I spent 3 hours trying to upload my 1 minute elevator pitch to YouTube. My laptop is 4 years old and it's just so ancient. I wish I knew how to make it go faster.

FEEDBACK: I like the idea for students to "try-out" their future careers to figure out if they want to do it for the rest of their lives. I think it's interesting and I would like to see where this app goes in the future. I think virtual reality has so many possibilities where students can explore another world. I wish I had the ability to try out some professions becoming a teacher. What would it be like?

FEEDBACK: I think it would be great to have these informational pods all over each university or college campus. I like them in the museums and they get me to learn and explore museums even more. I have more takeaway when I learn from the pods in museums. You can rent headphones and just walk around the museum with the informational voices. It would be like a scavenger hunt for learning knowledge information. I love your idea and I would be interested if BCIT executes your idea!

FEEDBACK: I can really appreciate your app and your idea concept for it. I think the PE teachers in my school would greatly appreciate an app like this for their classes and also for the school team. It would be interesting to see how this would come out in the market and if it could take off. Especially it could be used for the NBA. I like how focused and narrowed down it is and how it very specific for a field. It seems very cool and I would like to see it come to fruition.

FEEDBACK: I really enjoyed watching your video. I know I want to de-clutter my classroom with all the files and make it all in a cloud. It can make it very Feng Shui and bring some calmness in the classroom. I think a cloud based app would be able to help students and teachers to become more efficient and also help with storage in the classroom. I appreciated the photos of clutter in the classroom and how you presented your idea.

FEEDBACK: I liked your video and I thought the concept was pretty cool. I would like to have this app to monitor and use it as classroom management when students go on their devices in my classroom. My students start gaming when they should be working on their Canada Food Guide Project. It can be incredibly frustrating at times. Having an app to control and monitor what the students are viewing during class time is a fantastic idea.

FEEDBACK: I really liked your video and it was very easy to follow along. I understand what your product is and how you want to implement it. However, the video was a little blurry and shaky. I wonder if you could have just uploaded your video from your computer versus uploading it from a taping of the screen? I liked the characters and layout of your video. It was informative and I can tell it was well researched. Thank you for your video.