This week we are going to visit the middle schoolers – I’m extremely excited and inspired by the different links found on the syllabus. Particularly the ones about K-12 schools adapting design thinking educational methods. I was rarely given the opprotunity to problem solve outside of the textbook, or apply what I learned to real world problems during my earlier education. It gives me great hope that children today – the future of tomorrow – are learning how to work in teams, critically think, and value the process over the outcome. These children have expressed some massive ideas about the things they would change in this world – such as inequality, gun control, environmental concerns, and world-wide respect and empathy. I’m looking forward to engaging and brain storming with the kids using the design thinking methods I have learned at my time at Parsons.