What Are Your Super Powers?

DFC wins Rockefeller Young Innovator Award

Kiran Sethi, Founder of Design for Change at TED

Who Are We?

Kids on The MoveCreating Bike Paths- Students at G Ross Elementary School felt that childhood obesity was a problem and created bike paths for community members to have access to biking.

ADDvertising: Positive Message for Positive ChangePlagued by negative advertising, fifth graders from Pearl River Middle School in New York decided to spread messages of positive change through a campaign called "Add"vertise.

DESIGN THINKING FRAMEWORK

FEEL - What is bothering us?

IMAGINE - What can we do about it?

DO – What is our plan? Do it!

SHARE – Let’s inspire others!

Other children who used

to make a change.

Your Existence is not only sound to me

Experimental Elementary School,Tapei, Taiwan

Redona, Brazil

Project Transformation

Antono Park Primary School, Australia

4RV

We will need to identify what we know and decide what is bothering us in our community.

“Think from your Heart”Sensitize, Identify, Engage

• Who is affected?• Who and/or what is part of the problem?• Why is it the way it is?

We will need to identify possible solutions or what steps we can take to change it for the better.

• Which idea has the most impact on the most people?• Do we have or can we acquire the resources to get it done?• Which idea has the most long lasting potential?

Brainstorm Ideas

We will need to organize ourselves, devise a plan of action and do it.

• How long will it take?• What tasks are needed and who will do them?• What resources will we need to acquire?• How will we document our work?

“Yes I Can!”

We will need to tell our story.

• Who will benefit from hearing our story?• How will we publish it?

“I Can! Now You Can Too!”

What attributes will we need to be successful?

I Can!!

EmpathyCollaborationListening skillsSpeaking skillsWriting skills

Presentation skills

What attributes will we need to be successful?

ResponsibilityTime Management

LeadershipProblem solvingCritical thinking

Creative thinking

I Can!!