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Students had the opportunity to draw out their ideas and visions for the solution! They split into two groups- one group focused on furniture design and the other group focused on artwork design.

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Our stakeholders are kids and parents who visit the library!

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We thought about who our stakeholders are and made empathy maps for: lower elementary kids, upper elementary kids, parents, and little siblings. We thought about what each of these groups of people are thinking, feeling, saying, and doing when they are at the library. This helped us gain a better understanding of other peoples' perspectives!

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Ms.Amanda, a staff member from the library, guided us through the children’s library! She showed us the different areas of the library and gave us ideas about some things that are working well, as well as things that in need of change, replacement, updates, or new ideas!

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Morning check-ins helped us all set the stage for a successful day together!

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Our group enjoyed sharing their favorite ideas and most enjoyable activities from each day of camp. They also shared wishes for the days coming up and for the future of the children's library!

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Each day we took a break to add some extra movement into our day, eat a snack, and learn more about each other.

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We created a "bugs list" where we wrote down all the things that students noticed that bothered them while they were visiting the library. This will help us think about what we want to focus on adding or changing to make the children's library even more exciting and enjoyable!

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We visited the LEGO Lab to offer students an opportunity to start bring their final ideas to life! Some students built protypes while others continued to work on posters to use when presenting their design solutions.

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Students were very dedicated to creating designs to share. They can't wait to see if some of them actually become a reality in the library!

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Feedback: NUF test and I Like… I Wonder…

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Feedback: NUF test and I Like… I Wonder…

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Parents and the Herrick District Library gave us feedback on our presentation! We noticed a lot of them loved the ideas of the fairy lights, flexible seating, and adding art! Some feedback we got was to keep working on using speaker voices when presenting!

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Many students mentioned that the thing they were most proud of this week was presenting their ideas!

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After spending time drawing out our ideas, students put heart stickers by the ideas that were really sticking out to them! This helped us narrow down our ideas and combine them into one common solution.

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Students had many opportunities for their voices to be heard and to be the leaders in this project! They were also given a lot of choice as they worked to develop a solution idea of their own and a way to design it!

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How can we make the design of the children’s library more welcoming and enjoyable?

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Students grouped together according to the focus of their solution, either furniture design or artwork design. They looked for the details of their ideas that worked best or needed revision as they prepared to build protypes and posters!

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For our entry event, students went on a scavenger hunt around the library! At the end, they unwrapped a box with a few fun prizes and a card that revealed our driving question for the week!

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We had the opportunity to share our ideas with parents, families, and a few members from the Herrick District Library Staff!

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Employability Skills: Participation & Teamwork 

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Employability Skills: Participation & Teamwork 

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Our group has been excited to join right in and participate in many fun activities this week! Campers played some games to get to know each other during our break at the park. They also worked together to experience the library as visitors today!

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After our pitch, we got to reflect on something we felt proud of from the week! Then, we got to open our last box to find trophies and celebrated all of the kids strengths and accomplishments!

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After revising and narrowing down our ideas, we began creating posters that show our ideas for our solutions!

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Campers loved visiting the park, building friendships, and using time to sketch and review some of their design ideas!

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We had the opportunity to brainstorm and ask Ms. Amanda (who works at the library) and Mrs. Williams (who is a parent and teacher who visits the library with her kids) many questions!

Some included:

-Is there a budget for furniture?

-What spot of the library is visited the most?

-What do you do to include other cultures and languages in the library?

-What part of the library do you want to change?

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This stage was our favorite because the students got to share the ideas that they have been working so hard on this week! They truly got to be the leaders in this process, and this morning they got to shine! We also loved celebrating with families! The most challenging part was coordinating the presentation and helping to calm anxious feelings for the pitch :) But the kids did GREAT and we are SO proud of them!!

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Campers placed stickers beside the ideas that they felt were most important to improve on our Bugs List. This helped us to narrow the focus of our ideas and solutions.

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Students got to explore pictures of other libraries and circle or star things they like about them! This helped them brainstorm some ideas of how we can make our library more exciting!

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To get to know each other, students brought in a “me bag” where they had the opportunity to bring in a few items that represent them and their interests! Students enjoyed sharing their me bags and we found lots of similar interests like: nature, art, reading, or legos!

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It was so cool to start to see students' ideas come alive through sketches, conversations, and poster sessions! It was also amazing to see how they were able to combine their ideas to make a focused, common solution. The most challenging part of this stage was the time crunch!

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The feedback papers were helpful!

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Students got to be visitors of the library! While they explored different areas of the children's library, they enjoyed reading, listening to audio books, playing at the playdough and STEM tables, and creating at the craft table!

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Campers also LOVED visiting the Wizard of Oz book display and story walk!

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The LEGO lab and creating posters were helpful resources for this stage!

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Mrs. Kern and Mrs. McCormick-Overbeek both teach 2nd grade at Lakeshore Elementary School and are excited to lead students through the Project Based Learning process at camp this summer!

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After visiting the library, we made a list of "pluses", or positive things we noticed about the library, and "deltas", or things that bothered us or we wish we could change.

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Students came up with as many ideas as they could think of to improve the artwork and the furniture in the children’s library!

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Students became friends surprisingly quickly, which was fun to see! Accepting any student response, embracing students' ideas, and encouraging a balance of fun and hard work helped make our time together really engaging and successful!

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There are so many great protocols for this stage, and we can really explore the problem while also researching and hearing from other perspectives. We enjoyed going on a tour and interviewing library staff. Sometimes the challenging part of this stage is not jumping to the solution quite yet, but really investigating the problem and keeping students invested and engaged in this step of the process.

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We looked for patterns and grouped similar solutions together to help us focus in on our big ideas.

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It was helpful to communicate with our business partner and interview her and also have her guide us on a tour during this stage!

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Then we looked for ways to combine some elements of their different ideas to form an overall design solution.

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The students loved the emoji check-ins!

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"We are so excited to explore with you this week!"

"We're really proud of you all for sticking with it as we explored ideas today!"

"Kids come up with some really excellent ideas!"

"Your kids were SO impressive today!"

"You could see students' sense of pride building all morning long!"

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"This is our second year doing this and we LOVE this program! My kids are sad it's ending!"

"How creative the students are! So many great ideas- I love all the fun seating ideas and adding paintings and color/art to the library!"

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We love the incubation stage because this is when students really start brainstorming so many great ideas! The hardest part is narrowing down the solution, but dot voting really helped students to do this!

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"I liked this project! I added my hard work into it and tried my best to do it!"

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"I enjoyed coming up with ideas and making drawings of my thinking."

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"I DO like to design things!"

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"The kids had so many great ideas for things to add to the library! We love their ideas of adding art and new, flexible seating. I want to share these ideas with our team!"

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The observation stage was fun because it allowed us to start exploring the driving question while also team building! It was helpful to share our hopes, fears, and create norms for the week, as well!

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LOTS of sticky notes and anchor chart paper to generate many ideas :)

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Take time to reflect on what went well. What will you change for next year? What feedback did you get from students, the business partner, the authentic audience that can help make this project even better?

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The library set up a scavenger hunt for us for the entry event which was really helpful!!