Students will launch the pickleball tournament design project by experiencing contrasting game formats, learning core rules and safety expectations, and drafting first evidence-based ideas about what makes a tournament fair, fun, and challenging for different skill levels.

Students will gather direct user evidence from gameplay and interviews, organize findings into an empathy artifact, and identify the fairness, safety, scoring, and skill-level assumptions they need to test before designing tournament components.

Students will turn user research into actionable tournament design choices by framing a clear design brief, generating multiple bracket and rule ideas, building low-fidelity prototypes, testing them in live play, and revising based on peer and teacher feedback.

Students will refine their pickleball tournament prototypes through another evidence-based revision cycle, validate fairness and usability with peer and teacher testers, and prepare polished handbook materials plus a concise stakeholder-ready explanation of how feedback shaped final design choices.

Students will present and run their student-designed pickleball mini-tournament for an authentic audience, explain how gameplay evidence shaped their handbook decisions, gather final user feedback during exhibition matches, and complete a brief closing reflection on fairness, safety, collaboration, and tournament design.