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Sample: Community Partner Outreach Email

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Sample: Community Partner Outreach Email

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Dear (Name),

Hello! My name is (Name). I am a (title) at (school or learning environment). This year, I am hoping to inspire my students through a unique learning experience called Project Invent ( projectinvent.org). I am working with a small group of high schoolers who signed up for Project Invent to "design technologies that make a difference ." I'm really excited about this opportunity, because I think that it's important to show students why their learning matters in the real world.

Here's how it works: My students will be studying the basics of design, coding, and engineering over the next few months. Instead of limiting their learning to test-taking and paper-writing, I want my students to apply what they have learned to real problems in the community. That's where you could come in!

The Project Invent program enlists "Community Partners" to collaborate with teams of high school students. Community Partners share their stories & challenges and work with the students to invent impactful solutions. Over the past few years, students across the country have designed everything from an automated hay bale for farmers, to a safety belt for the visually impaired, to an on-field concussion kit for football players!

My students are passionate about making a difference, but don't know where to start. You could give them a real-world problem to tackle. [Personalize if possible! E.g. Because our school is located to close a military fort, my students' expressed interest in learning from a veteran this year.]
We would love to work with you as our Community Partner to design impactful inventions for your unique, everyday challenges.
Would you be interested in sharing your story with our students and working with them throughout the year to inspire them to invent for good?

See attached one-pager for more information.

Let me know if you're interested in getting involved. We'd love to have you -- and would undoubtedly be greatly benefitted by your involvement. Thank you!

[Include images or quotes from your students as an attachment if possible. Check out this example! This extra touch of personalization can increase your response rate.]

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Community Partner Outreach: Email Template

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Dear (Name), Hello! My name is (Name). I am a (title) at (school or learning environment). This year, I am hoping to inspire my students through a unique learning experience called Project Invent ( projectinvent.org). I am working with a small group of high schoolers who signed up for Project Invent to "design technologies that make a difference ."

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Sample: Community Partner Job Description

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Project Invent | Empowering Students Through Invention

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Innovate with Our Project Invent Students: Become a Community Partner!

Teams of student inventors are waiting to partner with you!

Help develop the future of inventors and inventions.

Project Invent is a national nonprofit empowering high school students across the country to invent technologies for social impact. We pair Community Partners with teams of high school students to share their stories and partner to invent impactful solutions.

We're always looking for exciting challenges for students to tackle and new people for students to meet. Whether it's improving driver safety, creating shopping helper robots, or building an automated hay bale cover for farmers, the sky is the limit for what our students could invent for the experiences you bring to the table.

Community Partners are a core part of our learning community, building meaningful relationships with their assigned team. Check out an example of a Community Partner in action in the video below:

The Perfect Community PartneR...

Is excited to brainstorm and connect with young people

Can give honest feedback kindly

Is open about the challenges they face in their personal or professional life

Is willing to connect students with friends or colleagues in their network if needed

Has access to a computer for video conferencing or a caretaker that can assist with virtual meetings with students

Expectations...

Meet with your assigned team at least three times throughout the course of the school year

Share stories (not solutions) that highlight the challenges you face

Give feedback on new ideas

Share & test through multiple mediums (video chat, vlogs, in-person meet-ups, etc. dependent on comfort level)

Support your team of students at Project Invent's virtual Demo Day event

Compensation

We know that many of our Community Partners aren't doing it for the money, but Project Invent would like to provide a $200 gift (distributed after the last meeting) to our Community Partners as a thank you for your time and experience.

BECOME A COMMUNITY PARTNER!

Ready to team up with a group of creative high school students in your community? Head to our public brainstorming page, and tell us about a challenge you're facing! If there is a group of Project Invent students near you, we'll let you know!

QUESTIONS?

Want to learn more? Feel free to reach out to Partnerships Manager, Jordan Mareno!

"It's wonderful to get kids engaged in the community, there are different people out there with different needs, and not everyone lives in the same situation. This project was great exposure for them, but it was also great exposure for me to be proud of the future generation."

- Jon, Community Partner 2019

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Innovate with Our Project Invent Students: Become a Community Partner! Teams of student inventors are waiting to partner with you! Project Invent is a national nonprofit empowering high school students across the country to invent technologies for social impact. We pair Community Partners with teams of high school students to share their stories and partner to invent impactful solutions.

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Project Invent: How Might We Question Template

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Liberatory Design: Designing With, Not For

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Liberatory Design: Designing With, Not For

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The 2021 Version

Originally based on the 5 hexagons of design thinking, the latest visual representation of Liberatory Design is inspired by a flower with petals that converge in the center. The flower exists among others within an ecosystem, and the practitioners of Liberatory Design create connections through pollination. In this graphic, the Notice and Reflect modes are placed at the centers of the flower- we encourage you to return to this center each time you pivot to a new mode. We also want to emphasize the graphic's non-linearity; the petals can be visited in any order to support your unique context.

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Liberatory Design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation. It is made up of mindsets and modes.

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Project Invent: Invention Curriculum (FULL)

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Project Invent: Invention Curriculum (FULL)

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Digital Curriculum

Free

This digital curriculum features 7 lesson plans and 30+ tools from design thinking, engineering, and entrepreneurship to guide students through solving real problems with technology. The curriculum is written by real engineers turned educators, so you can trust it reflects real engineering processes that also work in the classroom. These resources will show you how to:

Investigate problems in your community

Transform observations into actionable insights

Generate ideas exponentially and identify the best one

Build an idea and make it a reality

Identify product market fit and scale the impact of your product

Tell the story of your product and pitch it to investors

What our users are saying:

...my mind has been rolling with new ideas and a higher expectation for my students than I have ever had before. With the new tools I have, I am energized and ready to change some lives. - John Teuscher, HS Teacher in UT
As a librarian without a design/engineering background, the way this curriculum breaks down the process gives me the confidence to work with students as they develop their technology projects. - Jessica Simons, HS Librarian in CA

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This digital curriculum features 7 lesson plans and 30+ tools from design thinking, engineering, and entrepreneurship to guide students through solving real problems with technology. The curriculum is written by real engineers turned educators, so you can trust it reflects real engineering processes that also work in the classroom.

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