Day of Design Challenges encourage students to create like an innovator by employing creative problem-solving skills and an entrepreneurial mindset while innovating a solution to a problem.
Innovation Sandbox: Design Thinking Community Challenges
Learn to Think Like an Innovator
Be Energy Smart: Designing Space-Efficient & Energy-Efficient Homes
Design an affordable home that is as space-and energy-efficient as possible.
Living Well: Creating Fun Ways to Stay Active and Healthy
Design an active, healthy community space as a solution to help your community live well.
Vibrant Neighborhood: Growing Livable Communities with Green Space
Design a solution to increase green spaces to make your community more livable and enjoyable.
Water Warriors: Communities Fighting Floods with STEM
Design and prototype flood barriers that can protect your community from flooding.
Day of Design Challenges encourage students to create like an innovator by employing creative problem-solving skills and an entrepreneurial mindset while innovating a solution to a problem.
Design Thinking is a widely-used methodology that seeks to create solutions for the future, rather than solving problems that have occurred in the past. It is focused on achieving the best possible outcome for the end-user, who could be a person, an organization, or even a community. It draws on logic, imagination, intuition, knowledge, and reasoning to explore, design, and test possible solutions. It provides an engaging and meaningful connection between learning in the STEM classroom and the world beyond it.
A fun and easy way to introduce students to design thinking is to run the “Wallet Project” from the Institute of Design at Stanford University.
