Design Thinking & Emerging Leaders
The Design Thinking course is meant to help students develop an ideology and mindset that can be used as a process to approach learning, problem solving, innovation, and creative works in realistic ways. It is centered around the process of: Empathy, Definition, Ideation, Prototyping, Testing, Implementing, and Reflection.
Emerging Leaders focuses on creating community connections and giving back through philanthropic projects.
Designing a COVID Flyer
Facilitated by Mr. Gleue
Students researched and designed a COVID flyer. I showed them several that were being hung in our apartment complex on our entry ways into the apartment buildings and wanted the students to design their own COVID flyers.
Cereal Front of the Box Design
Facilitated by Mr. Gleue
Students were shown a box of the Mahomes cereal from Hy-Vee. They then had the challenge to develop a theme for a cereal they would like to design and then design the front of the cereal box.
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Tiko T. (9th)
Roman L. (9th)
Advertisement Flyer for a Proposed Business
Facilitated by Mr. Gleue
This was a project I did with my online design thinking students. Students were involved with a project to come up with a business they would be interested in starting. For this part of the project, students were to create a flyer to be used as advertisement for their proposed business.
Madison S. (9th)
Grace P. (9th)
Advertisement Flyer for a Proposed Business
Facilitated by Mr. Gleue
This was a project I did with my online design thinking students. Students were involved with a project to come up with a business they would be interested in starting. For this part of the project, students were to create a flyer to be used as advertisement for their proposed business.
Madison S. (9th)
Grace P. (9th)
Advertisement Flyer for a Proposed Business
Facilitated by Mr. Gleue
This was a project I did with my online design thinking students. Students were involved with a project to come up with a business they would be interested in starting. For this part of the project, students were to create a flyer to be used as advertisement for their proposed business.
Madison S. (9th)
Grace P. (9th)
Product Redesign
Facilitated by Mrs. Carter & Mr. Blanton
Students will apply each stage of the design thinking process to redesign (remix) an existing product. The redesigned product must meet the existing needs and wants of the end users, AND a need or want of the end users that is not being met with the current design.
Ann T. (9th)
Devin V. (9th)
West M. (9th)
Avery W. (9th)
Layla N. (9th)
Bralen A. (9th)
Surprise Vacation Design
Facilitated by Mr. Blanton
Students used a design process to design a surprise vacation for a partner. They got to know their partner by conducting empathy interviews to learn about what type of vacation destination, travel, activities, lodging, restaurants, and style would best suit them. They presented a surprise letter and city guide to them during a classroom celebration and a highlight slideshow/video of what the experience would look and sound like.
Zoe B. (9th)
LEAD Apparel Artwork Design
Facilitated by Mr. Blanton
Students used a design process to design artwork for LEAD apparel that could potentially be purchased in the LEAD school store. Students surveyed LEAD community members to get important feedback from existing and potential customers of the LEAD school store before brainstorming, sketching, and creating mockups of their best designs. Below are some examples of original student designs.
Vision Board
Facilitated by Mr. Motta, Mrs. Scott & Mrs. Gourley
In this Final Product students lay out the early foundation for what their life vision is. In order for us to achieve the life we want - where we experience happiness and peace - we must have a vision of what it will look, feel, and be like. So students developed a vision board that provided images and ideas on what they value in their life and what they think their life will look like in the 5-10 years after high school graduation.
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Habits of Success Semester Portfolios
Facilitated by: Mrs. Scott
The Habits of Success are integral to all of the work students do at LEAD. At the end of first semester, these LEAD Emerging Leaders students created a portfolio showcasing the Habits throughout all the work they had done. Students included content from core classes as well as electives .
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