Design Sprint in a Day at a High School
Wenona (Sydney)
The Story
As part of ADAPTOVATE's Pledge 1% partnership, we delivered a "Design Sprint in a Day" for students and staff at Wenona, a school in Sydney — giving students the opportunity to tackle complex, real-world problems in a structured way as part of their transition to Senior College.
Our Approach
Over the course of the day, ADAPTOVATE helped students and staff:
- Explore an agile mindset and ways of working to tackle complex, big problems in a structured way
- Run problem-mapping, empathy and value-proposition exercises leveraging Human-Centred Design techniques to narrow the problem and target audience
- Ideate rapidly using design sprint methods such as Crazy 8s and solution sketching in a time-boxed environment
- Reach consensus in an inclusive and effective manner using tools such as post-its and dot voting
- Build prototype solutions at speed with the help of cartoonists, and then pitch them to a judging panel
Outcomes
Students engaged enthusiastically with the real-world problems, working through the full design-sprint process to build and pitch prototype solutions to a judging panel — a successful, energising addition to their transition into Senior College.
“We loved working with ADAPTOVATE. The students re-engaged and enjoyed the processes and outcome of the "Design Sprint in a Day" experience. It was enough to fill our cups up to get us to the end of the year! Students especially enjoyed working with real-world problems and sharing their ideas for solutions with their peers, teachers and the team from ADAPTOVATE. Including this experience as part of the transition to Senior College was hugely successful.”
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