News
Principals at two of our school partners were honored today with the Lindback Foundation's distinguished principal award! Congratulations to Robin Cooper of William C. Longstreth School and William Wade of the Promise Academy at Martin Luther King High School. Read more at The Notebook...
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Our student design teams appreciated the thoughtful questions and feedback from the great team of judges who took time from their busy schedules to attend the middle school DT Philly Challenge presentations. Many thanks to Debora Borges-Carrera, Doug Carney, Margaret Carney, and Brian Smith for...
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Many thanks to the following individuals for serving as judges for yesterday's DT Philly Challenge (High School Division): Glenn Bryan, Jon Coddington, Gary Jastrzab, Beth Miller, and Isaac Southard. We're delighted that such a great panel of academicians, architects, planners, and business...
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The trophies have arrived for tomorrow's DT Philly Challenge! We're looking forward to seeing the great work our high school teams have done applying the design-thinking methodology to a problem in their school or community.
Remember the video we shared with you from Nightline about building a better shopping cart? Click here for part 3...inspiration for the testing & presentation phases of your project work!
DT Philly teams have been having a good laugh while they gear up for the brainstorming and prototyping phases of their design projects by playing a pictorial version of whisper down the lane. It's a great way to practice visual thinking skills!
Remember the shopping cart video we shared with you from Nightline? Click here for part 2...inspiration for your ideation and prototyping work. We might borrow the umbrella idea for our office!
The forecast may be calling for snow, but we're thinking of barbecue! On Saturday, August 1, 2015 the Stephen Starr-Garry Maddox Barbecue Challenge returns to Citizens Bank Park. Mark your calendars now and come hungry...to win or to chow down! Follow...
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The team from Longstreth School didn't waste any time embracing prototyping and testing as they tried out both flag-themed and mascot-themed designs before finalizing their logo. The winner? The T.A.S.K. Tater.
If this building looks familiar to any of our middle school teams, it's because one of the badges you can earn for your DT Philly work recognizes this building and its architects! Located at 3205 Walnut Street, UPenn's Krishna P. Singh Center for Nanotechnology was just named one of 23...
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DT Philly Updates
Our 3rd - 5th grade design teams spent the late winter and early spring exploring challenges in their schools and coming up with creative ways to address unmet needs. This presentation shares their work, which impressed and inspired the two design panels that convened to review...
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The Mastbaum Panthers design team is hard at work making their DT Philly project a reality. With the support of team mentor Andrew Ferrarelli, Mastbaum staff members Chris Yancey and Karen Dignetti, and Philadelphia Academies, Inc.'s Jon Jacobs, the students are transforming a vacant classroom into a new school store called the Panther Shop. The design team members--all seniors--are working ...
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DT Philly is pleased to welcome our latest cohort of innovative educators--teachers from Laura H. Carnell School and Fox Chase Elementary School--to our brand new design thinking initiative for grades K-2. We launched the program on Saturday, April 2, with the help of Professor Jon Coddington at Drexel University and designers Porsche Jackson and Brian Lieb. Our newest students will spend...
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Our student designers know that brainstorming is fun (let your imagination fly!) but it's also hard work to bring new ideas to existing situations. It can help to break your big design problem down into smaller chunks to focus your brainstorming, and here's a great example of how one of our teams did just that. While researching their design challenge--How might we create a...
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The Seven Sheppard Dynamic Designers (S2D2) unveiled their rapid prototypes addressing the following design challenge: How might we improve the way we dispose of leftovers after breakfast and lunch at Sheppard School in order to keep the school cleaner, save time for students and teachers, and help the cafeteria and custodial staff? The 4th grade designers not only considered...
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Our high school design teams gathered at Citizens Bank Park on Monday to celebrate and be recognized for their design work, and to learn from one another. Many thanks to our judges--Doug Carney of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Jon Coddington of Drexel University, Rebecca Johnson of AIA Philadelphia, and Noah Tolson of Array Architects, for their time and their thoughtful...
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Our student design teams continue to recognize one another's good work! This week, Strawberry Mansion High School's Ambitious Scholars would like to recognize Kensington International Business High School's Smarticle Particles, whose design challenge is: How might we ensure students, staff, and administration know what is happening in our school to ensure that the school population is...
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With just over three weeks to go until our high school designers present their projects at Citizens Bank Park, teams are busy sketching concepts and modeling ideas. We're impressed with how the students are empathizing with their users as they work on challenges ranging from improving communication and building a sense of community in schools, to supporting vulnerable students and promoting...
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