Students will launch the student bakery challenge by analyzing sample bakery options, hearing from a local bakery owner about real production and customer constraints, and making an initial evidence-based claim about what makes a bakery item viable. They will begin documenting teamwork roles, assumptions, and questions they will investigate in the next phase.

Students will gather direct user evidence, analyze bakery constraints, and turn early findings into a design brief that defines a realistic, user-centered bakery item for later prototyping.

Students will turn user research into evidence-based problem statements, generate multiple bakery item concepts, build and test quick prototypes, use two rounds of feedback and revision, and select one direction to carry into refinement with clear records of how user needs and constraints shaped their choices.

Students will refine their bakery item and stakeholder presentation by testing a stronger prototype with representative users, tightening pricing and production models, revising with peer and bakery-partner feedback, and documenting how evidence shaped final decisions before the Sweet Success Fair.

Students will present their bakery product, math reasoning, and revision history to authentic visitors at the Sweet Success Fair, then use audience feedback and a final reflection to document how user evidence, teamwork, and decision-making shaped their results.