On Q December 2013
Education
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Students Build a Better World . . . One Product at a Time engineering and design methods with ideas from the arts, tools from the social sciences and insights from the business world. As students open their hearts and brains, remarkably, almost magically, you see their products take shape and work. Extreme by Design premieres Wednesday, December 11, at 10pm on KQED 9. Learn more about the movement to bring the creative process of design thinking to classrooms. extremebydesignmovie.com
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Pam (left), a Bengali American, meets a mother in Bangladesh whose child is seriously ill.
At a time of unprecedented global challenges, the under-30 millennial generation has every reason to be disengaged. Yet plenty of millennials are engaged. Call it the empathy revolution. The KQED presentation Extreme by Design brings this revolution to life by following three Stanford University d.school students as they design and build low-cost products that address bigworld problems in developing countries. Using a process called design thinking, student teams combine
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experience. With the help of easily accessible digital interview archives, they can research a wide range of careers and find inspiration in the most unexpected places. An evaluation of the high school program in San Jose’s PLUS Academies revealed that the average GPA of participating students increased from 2.35 to 2.75, with 86 percent of students answering positively when asked if they could rise to the challenge when presented with rigorous new assignments. “Now that we’re ten years into Roadtrip Nation, we’re definitely in a reflective place,” says co-founder Mike Marriner. “It’s hard to believe we’ve been on this journey for so long, and yet it feels like we’ve only just begun. Especially with our expansion into education and having mobilized more than 100,000 students to build their own roadtrips over the past three years, we feel like the potential to launch a truly national movement that empowers people to define their own roads in life is within our reach.”
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(Top r.) Facebook’s Delfina Eberly sits down with Roadtrip Nation to share stories of her struggles and triumphs in the tech industry. (Above) Roadtrip Nation’s green RV “Ellie” in Moro Bay, CA.
For the past decade, Roadtrip Nation has brought imaginative and curious Roadtrippers together from all around the world to find the answers to life’s big questions with the help of some of America’s most inspiring minds. The half-hour television show gives young people the opportunity to travel the country interviewing innovators in the arts, science, business and more. Highlighting the contributions of Bay Area businesses like Netflix, Craigslist and Mother Jones, Roadtrip Nation focuses on providing a breadth of knowledge to its Roadtrippers and viewers. Its growing collection of interviews includes public figures like musician Questlove, public radio’s Ira Glass, and dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison. Roadtrip Nation also has implemented an educational program called the Roadtrip Nation Experience, which helps make self-discovery part of students’ everyday
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Define Your Own Road
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