Where Design Thinking and (un)Conference converge to make something amazing in education.

Here's how it will work:
Attendees will introduce personal or professional challenges.
Those challenges will be sorted, grouped, and connected into various spaces.
Those spaces will serve as a home to work through a Design Thinking process to produce real solutions.
Those solutions will be presented after lunch to the rest of the attendees.
The whole group will engage in a #WTFN discussion to take the solutions beyond this day.

A snapshot of the design thinking process we will use is below:

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(1) Discovery & Empathy

What's the problem? What's the challenge? Who are the users of the problem/challenge?  What are the unique and common needs of the users of this problem/challenge?

(2) Ideation & Empathy

What "pie in the sky" or "dream" idea do you have that might address the problem/challenge? What are the unique and common needs this idea poses to its direct and indirect users?

(3) Experimentation & Empathy

How might we (HMW... get it?) take our dream idea and make it into a reality?  What elements of our idea are negotiable, and what aren't?  How might our users feel about this idea?

(4) Production & Empathy

Time to make the donuts... and give those donuts to our users... and listen to feedback from our users about our donuts so that we might iterate/make... yes... a better donut.

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