From the VAULT: Starting a Student Innovation Lab (How We Did It At My School)
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Release Date: 09/08/2017
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From the VAULT: Starting a Student Innovation Lab (How We Did It At My School)
Next Gen Schools Podcast with A.J. Juliani
An interview with the key teachers and leaders at WIlliam Tennent High School about our Student Innovation Lab. Our Student Innovation Lab allows students to go through the design thinking process to solve real problems at our school and come up with solutions that we actually implement at the school and district level.
info_outline| DT Phase | Activity |
| Empathy/ Look and Learn | Visit #1: The Science Behind our Brains and What People Care About. Team-Building Activity: Escape the Room Objective: Identifying problems and who those problems impact. |
| Researching | Visit #2: Effective research and study design How to Make Toast Objective: A plan of action for researching ideas and defining/refining their audience needs. |
| Ideating | Visit #3: Navigating Ideas from a Brainstormed List Whiteboard Activity Objective: Come with current data and analysis. Choose problem to work on and begin ideating (coming up with solutions) |
| Prototyping/ Creating | Visit #4: Narrowing Solutions and Rapid Prototype Rapid Prototyping Challenge Objective: Finalize 1-2 solutions and come up with a plan for prototyping/creating solution. |
| Revise/Iteration | Visit #5: How to Use Feedback to Improve Your Solution Pitch Your Product Objective: Pitch finalized prototype and develop plan for getting feedback for further iteration. |
| Launch | Visit #6: Product-Market Fit and Successfully Sharing Your Solution with the World Objective: Plan for how to sell, pitch, and market your solution to the masses (your audience). |