If you’re like me, you discovered design as a career option later in life--in college, or even after graduating and working in another field. By that point, most of us had already lost the mindset most beneficial for creative design.
What happens when a design firm partners with a high school, and works with a hands-on, project-based learning model, to teach the freshman class about product design?" Add on taking a freshman physics class and a class on social-change poetry, and ask the students to think about questions such as: "What would headphones look like if they were intended to appear to a certain target audience, so they could deliver their message to the right set of ears?"
Read on for more details and to learn about values of risk-taking!