SAN DIEGO (Press Release) – San Diego Jewish Academy (SDJA) will hold a half-hour-long Product Gallery Walk on Monday, Nov. 4, beginning at 8:45 a.m. SDJA high school students will walk 3rd grade students through the gallery to highlight how products are conceptualized and designed.
The high schoolers learn about the “Rapid Design Cycle” in their year-long Ideas to Products course and then use this process to create prototype games and toys relevant to their third-grade audience.
“Our ‘Ideas to Products’ course is extremely unique and exciting for our community,” said Zvi Weiss, Head of School at SDJA. “Not many high school students get the opportunity to learn about business and entrepreneurship, and then serve as mentors so younger students can begin to learn about these concepts too.”
“This project emphasizes the importance of learning through doing, where the experience of working through challenges is just as rewarding as the end result,” said Adam Borek, Director of SDJA’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking. “Students are excited to showcase their rough prototypes that they developed through the rapid design cycle.”
According to Borek, the “Rapid Design Cycle” introduced SDJA to key concepts, including empathy interviews, designing with constraints such as an animal theme, low budget, no screens) and prototyping, feedback, iteration, curation, and presentation.
“This cross-division collaboration between lower and upper school students fosters a deeper sense of community and creates opportunities for students to connect their learning in meaningful ways across age groups,” added Weiss.
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