2026 MDC Pine Creek Winter Academy Template PBL JOURNEY by

REFLECTION

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Coming back from the holiday break and jumping right in was challenging. We had a lot of snow days and so the pace was very rapid with a lot of work time being done over lunches. The kids seemed to have a good time and it was a wonderful learning experience.

All the Ideas

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

The teams' collaboration slide.

Thinking things through

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Teams ran through their first design concepts.

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

We learned how to work together through the Collab Tower protocol.

Empathy Map

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

The teams worked on WHO our projects should be for through an empathy map.

QUOTES/CONTACTS

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Dalhia said that she had so much fun in Design Challenge.

Business Connections

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Thank you to Haworth!

Team Photo

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Our Driving Question

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Create a furniture concept that provides individuals with unique needs, or for use in various environments (public spaces, private spaces, natural environments, business spaces, industrial spaces).

futureprepd2 — 2025-10-22 14:39:46 UTC

Entry Event: Field Trip to Haworth

2026-01-06 12:37:07 UTC

Our teams went to Haworth to get a first hand design experience.

2026-01-09 12:45:43 UTC

Asking questions, exploring, and getting ideas.

2026-01-09 12:49:04 UTC

We came back to Pine Creek, wrote down ideas and what we observed, and had a Fireside Chat.

2026-01-13 14:20:40 UTC

We learned about our Creative DNA.

Collab Tower

2026-01-13 14:27:13 UTC

Collab Tower Continued.

Final Towers

2026-01-13 14:29:36 UTC

Thank you to Haworth

2026-01-13 14:30:59 UTC

Thank you to Mr. Serna and Mr. West of Haworth.

Walk in their Shoes

2026-02-02 12:36:18 UTC

Teams had to pretend they were a person who needed to use crutches as we visited different rooms of the building. We talked about what could be challenging and what could be some solutions.

Bug List and Love Lists

2026-02-02 12:37:53 UTC

Teams created lists to help them dive deeper into what bugs them about furniture and what they love about it.

2026-02-16 14:38:03 UTC

Running through practice pitches and tweaking designs at the CTC was very helpful for teams.

2026-02-16 19:44:35 UTC

Listening to and tweaking ideas at the CTC. The High Schoolers in Design B were very helpful.

2026-02-16 19:46:55 UTC

We did a word cloud to reflect on the Future Prep'd experience so far.

5th Grade Study Chair

2026-02-18 16:13:16 UTC

Here is the 5th Grade Study Chair final design.

4th Grade Focus Cube

2026-02-18 16:15:11 UTC

Here is the 4th Grade's Focus Cube final design.

5th Grade Pitch

2026-02-18 17:56:34 UTC

4th Grade Pitch

2026-02-18 17:57:15 UTC

3rd Grade Frog Zone

2026-02-18 18:25:58 UTC

This is the 3rd Grade's Frog Zone for outdoor conversation.

3rd Grade Pitch

kimfox2 — 2026-02-20 14:06:21 UTC

zamiskil — 2026-02-24 12:57:20 UTC

Reworking and rewriting out pitches.