The Future Of Learning - Breaker 2017 Summer Design Challenge
Construct Foundation and its’ partners—Concordia University, Oregon Community Foundation, and Ken and Marta Thrasher, along with our thought leader, the Oregon Business Council—are pleased to present The Future of Learning. As always, we are grateful for the opportunity to work with College Possible in support of recruiting diverse students.
This short film provides a look at Construct’s Breaker summer 2017 design challenge where we tasked high school students with answering the question:
“How might we build bridges between school and work by re-imagining where and how we learn?”
After two weeks working alongside experts, mentors, and with the generous contributions of members of the unique learning eco-system assembled for this challenge, these amazing students dazzled industry and education leaders with smart, thoughtful, and innovative solutions to this complex real-world problem. Click here for details on the 10 day challenge and the final product solutions.
Construct is following-up this impressive effort with an intentional, new, next step in the process—a Phase II opportunity where our high-schoolers will be moving one of their creative design solutions for the Future of Learning from prototype to product.
Thanks to all our supporters and partners, Construct has had a tremendously busy 2017. Besides the Breaker summer high-school challenge: we launched our first in-school Breaker effort for elementary students; hosted a social justice challenge at Concordia University; facilitated a pilot cohort of School Retool--a change framework program from Stanford’s d.school K-12 lab--for Oregon principals from the mid-valley and metro regions; and we brought Breaker teacher training to Yamhill County.
The James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, Ford Family Foundation, and Oregon Community Foundation provided invaluable guidance, support, and resources to our work this year.
Next year will bring even greater outcomes. We’re hiring a Director of Programs; expanding our partnership with Innovate Oregon with whom we are presenting at an innovation summit for the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators for an anticipated 500 school leaders; our second School Retool effort will launch in Central Oregon; and we’re continuing deeper learning programming work in Newberg, Willamina, and at Centennial High School.
Stay tuned for the next chapter of Construct. It’s gonna be a doozy!