Students will launch the Heroic Choices project by testing first impressions about decisions and consequences, then begin analyzing how Odysseus’s choices can guide real middle school decision-making for younger students and families.

Students will gather and organize user evidence from younger students and community partners, compare that evidence with patterns in Odysseus’s choices, and create a research-based empathy foundation for later design work. They will practice interview listening, evidence capture, assumption-checking, and collaborative sensemaking before moving into solution development.

Students will turn their Odyssey evidence and user research into a focused design brief, generate several possible toolkit directions, build and test low-fidelity prototypes, and complete feedback-driven revisions before moving into refinement.

Students will refine their Heroic Choices Toolkit section using targeted feedback, validate its clarity and usefulness with a representative audience, and prepare a concise stakeholder presentation that explains how evidence from The Odyssey, user research, and revision decisions shaped their final design.

Students will facilitate their completed Heroic Choices Toolkit stations for authentic users, gather and interpret audience feedback, and complete a final evidence-based reflection on how their analysis, communication, revision, and decision-making developed across the project.