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Compelling Question:
How do wealth and financial stability affect the quality of education received?

I broke the compelling questions into different supporting questions to help me research and answer my compelling question. My compelling questions are designed to connect and research my enduring issue of the correlation between education quality and income. My supporting questions are designed to specify and elaborate on my compelling question. For example, I created supporting question one to find if there is a correlation between income and education. My second supporting question helps me find my target income level and the poverty line. My third and fourth question helps me find strategies to help low-income students when designing my product. My fifth question helps me find design ideas and concepts to help make my product affordable.
Supporting Questions:
1. What are the standards and chances of making colleges in China associated with income?

2. What is generally considered as financially unstable?

3. How to reduce price for living for a college student?

4. How do low-income students attend colleges?

5. How to reduce the price of maintaining and building facilities?

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After finishing my prototype. I refined my new library building by adding more windows and adding more support on the ceiling. I also created an interior design.

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Compelling Question: How do wealth and financial stability affect the quality of education received?

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Supporting Questions:

What are the standards and chances of making colleges in China associated with income?

What is generally considered as financially unstable?

How to reduce price for living for a college student?

How do low-income students attend colleges?

How to reduce the price of maintaining and building facilities?

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From researching precedents, I was inspired to offer a library for the students and free public facilities that would assist students with their studies and work. I was inspired to make office facilities for students to work during their studies for more work experience and financial aid.

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From researching how to save maintenance and construction costs, I applied some of the features from the precedents to my design. I applied a simple design that utilizes space effectively as suggested by the sources. I utilized a flat roof design inspired by my research. Additionally, I used a glass roof for my library building to save energy during the day while helping the environment.

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Flat roof design

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Throughout researching precedents, I found my target audience should be mostly from rural areas.

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I used the problem tree to generate my enduring issue.

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How the problem tree functions

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We did a concept cafe-styled presentation where we presented our design concepts to our class.

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I developed design ideas by combining ideas and concepts. I learned to generate many ideas by combining two things. I learned to generate design ideas and concepts using this strategy.

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2.1
https://padlet.com/brianhuang2/2g4p1k2dfohkhosd
We used the padlet to generate ideas for our design.

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https://padlet.com/brianhuang2/2g4p1k2dfohkhosd
We sorted our design ideas and concepts according to our success criteria.

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2.2
The feedback I was given was that I needed more solid examples than abstract concepts and that I should find more ideas and examples. I feel like the feedback was true since I didn’t have that many solid examples for my design. I will try to find more solid examples. I will find more examples to improve my design.

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I used the Refine document to refine my design ideas and concepts. I used the feedback I received to refine my design. I tried adding more solid examples than abstract ideas, including bike lanes and public facilities.

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We wrote elevator pitches to express our goal and explain our product.
My Elevator Pitch:
My design is an alternative college for students in need. My campus will offer libraries, classrooms, dorms, bike lanes and offices. Many low-income students are competent but can’t afford proper education. My target audience is people that need college level education but can’t afford tuition for proper colleges. My design should be able to accommodate low-income students while keeping a low price of maintenance. My service should be cheap and affordable while offering desirable education services. We are also offering a work study system that students can work on projects and part time jobs or gigs to make money during their term.

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My plan helps reach my success criteria when I evaluated precedents in the Inquire phase to find design ideas for my plan. I used various strategies to make my service more affordable by cutting down on maintenance and construction prices. My service provides education and career paths by presenting students with the necessary materials and support.

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I received feedback that I could save some time and resources by combining my buildings together. Originally, I had 4 buildings, but we don't have enough time to finish the entire design. By combining the buildings, I can focus on other parts of the design such as the interior and thus improving the quality of the design.

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I refined my Elevation sketch.

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I iterated and refined my floor plan by combining the office building with the classroom building to save time and space so I can focus on other parts of my design.

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3.3

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This was the prototype of my first building. Throughout prototyping, I learned that I should have more precise measurements and better quality along with adding more support to the ceiling.

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Library Building-Building 1

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Building 2

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Finished product

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My design responds to my enduring issue by providing education for students in need while meeting my success criteria.

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Shelter Version 2 Presentation.mp4

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Success Criteria

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I met my success criteria by creating a product with features to reduce costs while helping low-income students. Throughout research with my compelling and supporting questions, I used precedents to generate design ideas for features to meet my success criteria. My product offers affordable education for low-income students, according to success criteria 1. I designed the facility to lower the tuition for students by reducing costs and offering financial aid with my work system. I included office buildings so students that enroll can work a part-time job while studying to support them with tuition. I managed to use features to reduce construction and maintenance costs, according to success criteria number 2. I included a glass roof to save energy during the daytime while I also used a simple flat roof design to reduce construction costs. Additionally, I offered proper education facilities for students in need according to success criteria 3. With my design, I target students from less affluent and rural backgrounds while my facilities offer them their desired education. With all of these designs, it can also help students find future endeavors from success criteria number 4.

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The weakness of my design can be that some of my pieces and walls are poorly crafted due to the rush of time. Some of the hot glue can be seen from the outside, and there are some wrinkles on the surface of the product. If we had more time, I think I could improve the quality of the design.

According to the success criteria, the weakest success criteria I met would be success criteria number 4 which was helping students find future careers. I was more focused and had more ideas for the other 3 success criteria. I successfully offered facilities that can help students explore their interests. However, I could have focussed more on the education the students receive. My design focused on the exterior design of the campus to meet my success criteria. I could have worked more on the internal design and established an education system to support students.

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Impact:
My product can impact my target audience of low-income students by presenting them with more educational opportunities at a more affordable price. My campus offers education to students in rural areas or students in need of better education. My product targets to help improve the general education of low-income communities. My product aims to reduce the severity of the poverty trap by offering available education. Therefore, my product directly relates to my enduring issue.
Environmental Impact:
My product impacts the environment when some of the buildings utilize natural light to save energy thus protecting the environment. However, my product can also have negative environmental impacts such as construction.

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-Low-Income Students need education for careers
-Affordable Education for students from rural areas
-Intergenerational poverty trap for families in China
-College Entrance Opportunities and acceptance rate for students in China.
-Size of income gap from rural areas compared to urban areas
-Scholarships and Financial Aid given to support low-income students
-Construction Costs to build facilities

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When creating the structure for my research process, my compelling and supporting questions along with my topics were crucial for defining my research direction. My first and second prompt helps me clarify, define and specify my research directions with my compelling and supporting questions. The first prompt about the supporting questions helps me understand what I'm researching. For example, my compelling of "How do wealth and financial stability affect the quality of education received?" is too broad to be researched by itself. The prompt helps me break my compelling question into parts so I can make more specific research. I use these supporting questions to create search strings for researching my topic. My supporting questions help me research specific parts that connect with my compelling question and enduring issue. For example, my second question of "What is generally considered as financially unstable?" helps me find my target income level and area. This is important when finding the specific income level would help me find a more specific target audience affected by my enduring issue. The second prompt helps me understand the topic I'm looking for through my sources. These are the keywords or topics on what I'm trying to find. For example, my topic of "Affordable Education for students from rural areas" help me find what I'm looking for when I'm researching my supporting question of "How do low-income students attend colleges?" This is useful when my topic helps me find specific research I need for answering my supporting questions. Together, the prompts help me understand and look for the correct information in my sources.

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I created my supporting questions to help specify and answer my compelling questions. Throughout my research, I was able to come up with new supporting questions to answer and specify areas in my compelling questions. When I was researching, I researched my sources and realized some of my sources may have limitations. I created new supporting questions to answer other areas of my compelling question to look for more sources on that specific area. I found that some of my sources have limitations in the information I'm looking for. When I was researching my first supporting question "What are the standards and chances of making colleges in China associated with income," I found information about college acceptance and enrollment rates in China. I found information about the harsh standards for college education. I found that higher income has a positive impact on the quality of education. However, I didn't find any sources that clarified the specific income level that suffered from poverty and didn't find which areas are suffering from poverty that desires better education. So I created a new question that would help me cover the information I was looking for. I created a new supporting question: "What is generally considered as financially unstable?" I created this question to help me find a specific income level and area that I need to target for my product. Throughout researching my new supporting question, I was able to find that rural areas are suffering from poverty more than urban areas and lack the educational qualities that urban areas receive. I also found the poverty line which I should target for my product. With the new information I found with my new supporting question, I was able to clarify the location and income level of my target audience for my design.

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After finding that my supporting question of " What are the standards and chances of making colleges in China associated with income?" had limitations in areas where it doesn't specify the location and target income level, I created a new supporting question of "What is generally considered as financially unstable?" After researching sources with this new supporting question, I found my target income level and area. I read an article from China Power and found that the poverty line in China is around $5.5/day. Throughout this research, I found an approximate target income level for my design. After reading another article from The Borgen Project, I found that rural areas are suffering more significantly from poverty. Urban areas have around 2.5 times higher income than rural areas. Throughout this source, I was able to find my target location which was from rural areas. In addition, I read an article from BBC and found that the poverty line for rural areas is closer to $2.2/day. I also found that rural provinces such as Jiangsu are suffering from poverty more significantly. Throughout my research with these sources, I clarified my target income level and location. This affects the research because it clarifies my target audience so it helps me with finding more specific design ideas and concepts that relate to my target audience. The sources I use also help me create more useful ideas and supporting questions. Throughout the source work, I can repeat the process to create more insightful supporting questions that connect better with my compelling question and enduring issue.