iSchool Capstone

Project Spark

Project tags:

digital youth & youth services

information literacy

knowledge organization

Project poster

Students are not being exposed to user-centered design and other Informatics topics in high school. We have found that many currently in the field did not discover such topics until their second year in college. With the demand for user focused critical thinking on the rise, Project Spark hopes to bridge the gap by introducing these topics earlier in the education system in order to spark interest. We bring college students to the high school classroom in order to give high school students a taste of what they can do with user-centered design. Our goal is to simply get more students interested in design thinking within the context of technology in the information age.

Project participants:

Morya Breland Jr.

Informatics

Keegan Farley

Informatics

Jacob Koch

Informatics

Chennan Mao

Informatics