Learning Goals
Students will be able to investigate college, training, and career pathways using multiple sources to identify realistic future options and costs.
Students will be able to analyze a personal or family budget for high school-to-college or career planning to determine how money, time, and choices shape feasible next steps.
Students will be able to empathize with a community partner or internship host to define a user-centered problem based on direct evidence from interviews and field notes.
Students will be able to synthesize research, budget data, and internship evidence to write a clear How Might We statement that distinguishes a problem from a solution.
Students will be able to ideate and prototype multiple entrepreneurship or community-solution concepts that respond to criteria, constraints, and user needs.
Products
Future Pathway Research Brief and Personal Prototype Sketch
Each student creates a research brief on one college, training, career, or entrepreneurship pathway and a simple prototype sketch or planning model that shows an evidence-based response to a user need. The product must connect internship observations, budget considerations, and a clearly stated How Might We question.
Community Need Pitch with Budgeted Solution Prototype
Teams create a shared problem statement and a higher-fidelity prototype or service concept for a real community need, with a budget, testing notes, and a stakeholder-facing pitch. The solution must clearly show how individual research and prototype ideas informed the final team proposal.
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