http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2014/01/31/education/edlife/photobooth-ss-1.html
How we got into the New York Times:
As the Design Thinking Director, I discovered a New York Times contest and submitted a screen shot of a video of the kids jumping using the jump rope they had just made. The New York Times invites students to submit their creative problem-solving projects. A reporter from the New York Times contacted me verifying that Farallone School is in Montara, not Half Moon Bay. Excited to see our students in the New York Times, we were disappointed to find out we were not there. Seeing the other winners from some of the top design schools in the country, including Pratt, we realized our screen shot needed to be at a high resolution.
The workshop kids again recreated the scene and we resubmitted and saw the picture in the New York Times within one hour of resubmitting. Lesson learned, perseverance pays off.
Design thinking is a process we use to create human centered designs to ensure that
our designs are important to the user. Defining the right problem to solve is dependent on empathy for the user. At Workshop, students collaborate and combine ideas, build them into rapid prototypes which in itself turns the mind on to engineering issues by thinking also with your hands. We work with Stanford Design School to ensure Workshop students are provided with the best pedegogies.
Because we give students opportunities for such design session, they have been recognized by the New York times. We are so proud of our Workshop students at Farallone. In a collaborative design,the Workshop students were challenged to reuse used duct tape. Instead of throwing it away, students made a jump rope.
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> As the Design Thinking Director, I discovered this New York Times contest and submitted a screen shot of a video of the kids jumping. The New York Times invites students to submit their creative problem-solving projects. A reporter from the New York Times contacted me verifying that Farallone School is in Montara, not Half Moon Bay. Excited to see our students in the New York Times, we were disappointed to find out we were not there. Seeing the other winners from some of the top design schools in the country, including Pratt, we realized our screen shot needed to be at a high resolution.
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> The workshop kids again recreated the scene and we resubmitted and saw the picture in the New York Times within one hour of resubmitting. Lesson learned, perseverance pays off, one of the values students practice at Workshop.
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> This picture of students using the jump rope and it made it in.