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The Future of Stuff: The Global Breaker Challenge

How do you redesign manufacturing in 14 days? Students in teams around the world are trying to figure this out now in the Breaker Challenge...

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Using Design Thinking to Leave No Right Brain Behind in the Classroom

The goal is to foster excitement and engagement amongst 9-12th graders by bridging arts and sciences.

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What Happens When Teachers Discover They're Really Designers?

By honing those design thinking skills, educators can become even more effective at creating solutions for classroom space, the curriculum, and kids.

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Psst, President Obama: Our Students Aren't All Future Tech Workers

While ensuring kids acquire the STEM chops they need is certainly a worthy cause, there's a danger to this narrow emphasis.

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Government, To Go: Boston Takes City Hall on the Road

"City Hall To Go" is a new branch of Boston government inspired by a food truck.

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How Design Thinking Could Help Solve the Skills Gap

Using three design thinking tools—analogous thinking, looking to extremes, and keeping the human experience in mind—can help us find solutions.

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Tell Them I Built This: With Design Thinking, High Schoolers Reimagine Chicken Coops

Rural North Carolina's dominated by industrial poultry farming. Design thinking helped high schoolers rethink a Perdue chicken processing plant.

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On University of Colorado Football, the Fiscal Cliff, and Deliberate Problem Solving

We see so many institutions solve problems in crisis mode. Let's not do that in our own lives.

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Designing Healthy Doctors: Physicians Take Care of Us, But Who's Taking Care of Them?

Imagine you’re three months into a new job. You’ve just skipped lunch, even though your only sustenance since starting work last night was the...