Resources

Take the whole day home

Everything from the Expo, free and open: the printable one-pagers, the slide deck, the essay, the full Q&A bank, the tools we showed, and every source we cited.

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Rendered videos

The Showdown trailer · 90 seconds

The finished promo video for the AI Use Case Showdown — voice, music, lower-thirds, cinematic transitions.

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The full 34-video library is on the mini-camps page — every breakout, every mini-camp, in both languages.

The four one-pagers

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Cool Tools

Your first AI co-pilot — the 4-part recipe, 5 tools, 3 prompts to try tonight.

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Cool Schools

AI in the classroom — the Sunday-night rescue kit and your 3-sentence policy.

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The Rules

Safe & sane AI for small business — the 5 jobs to give AI, your 5-sentence policy.

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Build It in 60

From idea to working AI helper — the 4 ingredients of a good agent.

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The Showdown trailer

The 90-second story, frame by frame

A visual storyboard for the AI Use Case Showdown promo — generated from the trailer script. Drop these into Gamma, Descript, or any video editor with the matching narration to produce the final cut.

Maria opens her Chromebook at dawn — Shot 1 · 0:00–0:05
It's a Tuesday morning in Wenatchee.

Maria leaning into her AI tutor — Shot 2 · 0:05–0:11
Today… she gets it.

Real NCW classroom wide shot — Shot 3 · 0:11–0:19
That moment — right there — is what AI was actually built for.

Teacher on a Sunday morning, coffee, laptop — Shot 4a · 0:19–0:21
The burned-out teacher gets Sunday back.

Orchard small business owner reading email on phone — Shot 4b · 0:21–0:23
The owner stops drowning in emails.

Community leader presenting to city council — Shot 4c · 0:23–0:24
The community leader moves what nobody else had time to.

Aerial of Wenatchee at golden hour — Shot 5 · 0:24–0:30
On August 11, at the Wenatchee Convention Center…

Presenter at a packed conference podium — Shot 6 · 0:30–0:36
The people who figured it out come to show their work.

Slide clicker close-up at the Showdown — Shot 7 · 0:36–0:43
8 minutes to pitch. 8 minutes of hard questions.

$5,000 prize on a conference screen — Shot 8 · 0:43–0:47
Five thousand dollars in prizes.

Hero shot of the packed Showdown convention hall — Shot 9 · 0:47–0:57 · hero
Proving that North Central Washington leads with AI — or gets left behind without it.

Maria's face — thinking, determined — Shot 10 · 0:57–1:04
This community doesn't wait.

Collage of NCW community life — Shot 11 · 1:04–1:12
It builds.

Final title card — NCW AI Use Case Showdown — Shot 12 · 1:12–1:30
Join us.

All 14 frames are royalty-free, generated at 1280px JPEG, ready to drop into the editor of your choice. Narration script and full storyboard available in the resources package.

Cool Tools, Cool Schools
& The Rules

Master slide deck · Wenatchee · Aug 11

The Gamma deck

The full presentation

Every slide from the day, themed in NCW orchard green. Open it, present it, or remix it for your own school, business, or council.

Open the deck on Gamma

This Morning in Wenatchee,
We're Choosing Which Future We Want

The Substack essay

The story, in long form

Ken Johnston and Bob Rapp on Maria, Jake, and the choice North Central Washington gets to make — the written companion to the plenary.

Read on Substack

The Sli.do question bank

25 questions, answered honestly

The full plenary Q&A bank across five categories — positive, skeptical, hostile/policy, technical, and NCW-specific. Tap any question to see how Ken or Bob would answer it.

Tool inventory

Every tool we showed

With a one-line job and a link. Start with two or three — not all fourteen.

Citations library

Every source, one place

We keep the receipts on our own claims, too. Every statistic in this site traces to one of these.