Design & Innovation Course for High School

Pathways 1: Design & Innovation

Learn how designers and innovators think — then build something real using the design process from start to finish.

1. Welcome!
2. Gather your materials
1. Brainstorming Zoo
2. Design Challenge: Make a Chair
3. Prototyping
4. Design Challenge: Gift Giving
5. Design Challenge: App Design - Paper or Figma
6. Innovations that Shape Our World
7. Hands-On Design Experience at a Museum or Makerspace
1. Exploring Design Thinking - An Introduction
2. Exploring Desing Thinking - Quiz
3. Using Design Thinking
4. Using Design Thinking - Quiz
5. Informational Interview - Creative Problem Solving at Work
1. Make:able Challenge | Introduction
2. Make:able Challenge - Survey
3. Tour a Tech or Design Company
1. The Make:able Challenge | Get Inspired
2. The Make:able Challenge | Empathy - Design - Ideate - Assignment
3. University Design or Engineering Program Visit
1. The Make:able Challenge | Skill Building - Part 1
2. Intro to Tinkercad
1. The Make:able Challenge | Skill Building - Part 2
2. Become a 3D Innovator - Using TinkerCAD
1. How 3D Printers Work
2. Using a 3D Printer
1. The Make:able Challenge | Idea Generation
2. The Make:able Challenge | Idea Generation - Assignment
1. The Make:able Challenge | Develop Empathy
2. The Make:able Challenge | Develop Empathy - Assignment
1. The Make:able Challenge | Design & Make - pt 1
2. Design & Make - Assignment
1. Refining your Prototype - Test & Iterate
2. Refining your Prototype - Survey
1. Sharing Your Story
2. Sharing your Story - Assignment