Upper school students have been busy these last weeks thinking about what makes a house a home. In particular, how to translate that feeling to McNeil Hall, their home away from home. Challenge GA, a year long design thinking competition got underway in late September and for the next seven month, students will wrestle with new of creative problem solving. Using a technique developed at Stanford Design School, by David Kelley, called Design Thinking, students will solve for the question by employing a process where they will: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test. Beginning with interviews of their peers, the first phase of the year long project is to understand and define what people need for a building space to feels like home. Working in advisories with solutions evaluated by way of a house competition, the winning idea will be implemented in 2014-15.
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