Students will enter the project through a shadow-puppetry hook, analyze how folktales, movement, light, and culture work together, and begin documenting evidence that will guide later empathy research, storyboarding, and prototyping.

Students will investigate Chinese folktales and shadow-puppet audience needs, gather evidence from a community partner and peer users, and turn that research into a draft storyboard and How Might We statement for a clear, testable performance direction.

Students will turn storyboard ideas into testable shadow-theater prototypes, study just-in-time craft and performance techniques, gather feedback from peers and a community partner, complete two visible revision cycles, and prepare a stakeholder-facing prototype share that explains how folktale evidence, user feedback, and shadow tests shaped their decisions.

Students will present their finished Chinese folktale shadow-theater pieces to an authentic audience, explain design decisions and revisions in a brief artist talk, gather final audience feedback, and document how their puppets, scripts, and stage choices communicate story, culture, and movement.