For the third week, we visited LCCS and met our collaborators. From the short time we had together, it is already obvious that each middle schooler has a different personality and way of looking at things. While they were all cheerful and energetic, some of them were more creative while others were more down to earth. Although they were younger than us and sometimes gave very unrealistic ideas, they offered a different perspective on the issues we’ve been discussing. This could help us look at problems in a simpler way and find unique solutions that might have been obvious but overlooked. I am very excited to work with the children and help them bring their ideas to the public.

 

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Next week, we will be going to New Jersey to visit the middles schoolers for our collaboration. I am very excited to meet these brilliant students and to learn from them. The Mouse modules for brainstorming and framing questions are both very interesting and inspired a new way of looking at problems and brainstorming for solutions. I am personally not very good at brainstorming and story telling so I hope these activities with the kids will help me become more wild with my ideas and I look forward to creating with them.

1. What did you learn about we are doing in this studio for the semester? Did anything stand out as something that you like/dislike?

From the first class, I have learned that we will be working with the Learning Community Charter School with the goal of innovating learning for children through creating an Earth Day experience for for the Community Partner Baykeeper. What stood out the most to me was the amount of opportunities and possibilities this project will provide. It is both exciting and daunting but I look forward to being challenged.

2. What did you learn about Design Thinking?

Design Thinking is a processed in which a problem is confronted. I learned that before going in for the solution, steps should be taken so that the problem and is well defined and sufficient research is done. Also, I learned that it is a continuous process of prototyping, testing, evaluating, and then starting over from prototyping. I found the exercise from class useful in understanding the process of this technique.