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Page 8 <strong>Natick</strong> Local Town Pages www.localtownpages.com <strong>November</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
Keefe Tech Senior to Be Featured on CBS<br />
for Award-Winning App<br />
Keefe Regional Technical<br />
School senior Daniel Quackenbush<br />
of Framingham was recently<br />
interviewed by WBZ CBS<br />
Channel 4’s Kate Merrill about<br />
his award-winning “What The<br />
Fish” app.<br />
Quackenbush, a student in<br />
Keefe’s Programming and Web<br />
Development CTE program, created<br />
and developed the app in his<br />
Entrepreneurship class during the<br />
2017-<strong>2018</strong> school year. He presented<br />
his concept at the NFTE<br />
New England Regional Business<br />
Plan competition in May, where<br />
he won the first place award of<br />
$1,500.<br />
Keefe Tech’s Entrepreneurship<br />
class is structured around NFTEbased<br />
curriculum, which aims to<br />
provide students with the ability to<br />
thrive in the innovation economy,<br />
no matter what path they choose.<br />
The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship<br />
(NFTE) is an internationally<br />
recognized nonprofit<br />
that activates the entrepreneurial<br />
mindset in young people. NFTE’s<br />
Entrepreneurship Pathway program<br />
integrates the development<br />
of the entrepreneurial mindset<br />
with academic and industry skills<br />
to ensure that all NFTE youth are<br />
career-ready.<br />
Quackenbush’s “What The<br />
Fish” app identifies types of fish<br />
Keefe Regional Technical School senior Daniel Quackenbush of<br />
Framingham won the first place award of $1,500 at the NFTE New<br />
England Regional Business Plan Competition in May for his app, “What<br />
The Fish.”<br />
and provides information about<br />
each species. “My family and I<br />
were out fishing on Cape Cod,<br />
and we kept catching these unfamiliar-looking<br />
fish. We didn’t<br />
have a way to identify them at the<br />
time, so it got me thinking that I<br />
could use my knowledge to create<br />
an app that would solve that problem,”<br />
Quackenbush explained.<br />
“This project is much bigger<br />
than anything I’ve worked on<br />
before, so having time to work<br />
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and my entrepreneurship class<br />
has been enormously helpful,”<br />
said Quackenbush. “Additionally,<br />
the education I’ve received in my<br />
entrepreneurship class and the assistance<br />
from my CTE class has<br />
been invaluable.”<br />
According to Keefe Tech Entrepreneurship<br />
teacher Matthew<br />
Warren, his class curriculum<br />
teaches 21st century skills including<br />
collaboration, problem solving,<br />
creativity, communications<br />
and being socially responsible.<br />
“The NFTE program has been<br />
at Keefe for about 12 years and<br />
has been an amazing opportunity<br />
for students who want to achieve<br />
Daniel Quackenbush of Framingham, a Keefe Technical School<br />
senior, is interviewed by Kate Merrill of WBZ CBS Channel 4 about the<br />
award-winning app he created in his Entrepreneurship class, which is<br />
supported by NFTE-based curriculum.<br />
above and beyond what is taught<br />
in the classroom. Over the course<br />
of the school year, students create<br />
and assemble a business plan, and<br />
then present it in a competition.<br />
The NFTE curriculum provides<br />
the framework for the business<br />
plan project and presentations<br />
along with regular training for the<br />
teachers,” Warren noted. “NFTE<br />
also provides field trips for the students<br />
including a wholesale buying<br />
trip to New York City. Last<br />
year we also visited Clark University<br />
for an ideation workshop and<br />
Bose Corporation for a workshop<br />
on business plan financials,” he<br />
added.<br />
“I’m thrilled that Dan has created<br />
this plan and accomplished<br />
so much with it. He is a brilliant<br />
young man and a great representative<br />
of Keefe Tech and all we do<br />
here,” said Warren.<br />
Quackenbush will present at<br />
the upcoming 12th annual NFTE<br />
National Youth Entrepreneurship<br />
Challenge on October 11 in<br />
New York City, where 40 NFTE<br />
alumni from across the US who<br />
won their spring regional business<br />
plan competitions will compete.<br />
The CBS interview with<br />
Quackenbush was scheduled to<br />
air during the week of October<br />
8, <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
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