Launch
Students will launch the Food Truck Challenge by testing first ideas about recipe scaling, pricing, and profit, then use expert feedback to identify what they need to learn before designing a profitable menu.
Days 1 - 2
🌮 Menu Mystery Mix-Up
Launch 45m
👨‍🍳 Paco’s Crowd Cooking Questions
Community Experience 45m
Research & Plan
Students will gather real user and expert evidence about food truck menu decisions, confirm key assumptions about serving sizes and pricing, and organize what they learn into usable planning artifacts before drafting menu solutions.
Days 3 - 8
🎤 Paco’s Scaling Secrets
Community Experience 45m
📏 Ratio Tables for Crowd Batches
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🧠 Event Customer Empathy Map
Research 45m
💵 Unit Cost and Profit Check
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
📝 Needs and Constraints Planner
Deliverable 45m
🔍 Menu Check Numbers Round
Assessment 45m
Design & Prototype
Students will turn user research into a clear design brief, generate multiple food truck menu concepts, build low-fidelity menu prototypes with ratio and unit-rate math, test those ideas with peers and an outside expert, and revise their work through two documented iteration cycles.
Days 9 - 13
🧩 How Might We Menu Brief
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📏 Ratio Tools for Menu Mockups
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
🎨 Three Menu Concept Sketches
Project Work 50m
💬 Midproject Menu Check
Deliverable 45m
🌮 Paco Prototype Feedback
Community Experience 45m
Refine & Showcase
Students will refine a food truck menu board by checking ratio scaling, unit rates, and profit calculations against user and peer feedback, then prepare a clear Shark Tank-style defense of their menu decisions and math.
Days 14 - 18
🧮 Menu Board Math Tune-Up
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
🗂️ Profit Storyboard Rehearsal
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🤝 Paco Feedback Round
Community Experience 45m
🔁 Street Eats Revision Sprint
Deliverable 45m
🎤 Shark Tank Dry Run
Assessment 45m
Showcase
Students will present and defend their finished food truck menu boards to an authentic audience, answer questions with ratio, rate, and profit evidence, and reflect on how feedback improved their final design decisions.
Days 19 - 20
🦈 Street Eats Shark Tank
Assessment 45m
📝 Feedback-to-Final Reflection
Deliverable 45m