Big Ideas Studio - Agents of Change  2014
Channel: VillageSeedSolutions
Date: 08/12/2014

The Big Ideas Summer Studio is a pilot educational program designed to create a learning environment that challenges participants to sit at the intersection of Learning, Strategic Thinking, Leadership, Innovation, Sustainability and Problem Solving.  Participants are lead through a five day intensive learning module and coached through a two day intense period of designing and planning or charrette. In the charrette participants are challenged to apply concepts, skills and tools form the learning module to a real-world case study.  Participants are challenged to design, prototype, and evaluate the solutions.  One the final day participants present their solutions to the stakeholder they have been solving for. 

Having entered into its third year, the projects, have worked with 57 youth, trained 47 educators, and worked with 7 camp counsellors.  The eventual goal is to provide participants with skills that allow them to be citizens who have thought-provoking dialogue, an increased capacity for in-depth synthesis or critical thinking and have access to a library of tools and techniques which allow them to be better problem-solvers. 

In 2014, The Big Ideas Summer Studio, was sponsored by Republic Bank Trinidad and Tobago.