Holliston November 2018

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