Teen Start-Up

While we won't be running our usual in-person Teen Start-Up camp this January, we do have something special to get our young innovators designing, building and creating. We have compiled 10 design challenges that can be done at home as well as inspiring stories from local entrepreneurs such as WildlifeDrones in fields as diverse as space, technology, art, climate change and conservation. Find out more about "Be Curious: 10 adventures in creative thinking for teachers, parents and teens" at https://etsy.me/3ELFgDr

Teen Start-Up is a fun program where students aged 11-14 years are taken through the innovation development process. Our Summer holiday Idea Journal is an eBook full of creative prompts that encourage students to explore, create and use their imagination. They introduce students to entrepreneurs and innovators across a broad range of industries including space, cybersecurity, urban design, the creative sector and much more. The journals encourage students to practice their creative problem solving skills and contain tools, thinking skills and "how-to's" that can be applied broadly to both schoolwork and life. To be notified when the Summer Idea journal will be released, subscribe to our mailing list https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/msIwVtK/Teenstartup

We're excited to be working on new design challenges to keep our young designers creating imaginative solutions to real world problems during the December/January holidays. If you would like to be kept informed you can subscribe to our mailing list via https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/msIwVtK/Teenstartup.

A few design challenges to get your creative juices flowing.

Looking for something to do over the school holidays? Here are 10 design challenges to get you creating https://bit.ly/3lSyogi.

Today’s ‘Microlearning Moment’ to inspire your curiosity: Error-tolerant design attempts to understand an input even if it’s not completely correct, here are 10 examples of design for error tolerance https://simplicable.com/new/error-tolerance

Thinking Thursday: Innovative products that solve problems for people with disabilities are gaining traction and becoming mainstream. Here are 30 inclusive design products to inspire you https://www.trendhunter.com/slideshow/inclusive-design-product

A ‘Microlearning Moment’ to kickstart Monday: Could products or services be better designed to fit the realities and diversity of the human body? For some inspiration read https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/aug/25/the-tyranny-of-chairs?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&fbclid=IwAR0T_H9-Y6xO0f9dR1iRHy1y6rVuxxpvtmvgaAKEB7opzMzbXJAF9Que8Xg

The Teen Start-Up Maker Box is designed to keep curious kids designing, creating and imagining. Crammed full of supplies to encourage unstructured free play. Challenge cards encourage problem solving and creative thinking and are great prompts for the imagination. A collection of items with endless possibilities.

Teen Start-Up Maker Box TEEN START-UP MAKER BOX Unplugged things to make and do Suitable for age 8-12 years The Teen Start-Up Maker Box is designed to keep curious kids designing, creating and imagining. Crammed full of supplies to encourage unstructured free play. Challenge cards encourage problem solving and creative

If there was a checklist of life skills that every teen on the journey to adulthood should have, problem-solving skills would be near the top of the list. Teen Start-Up has created a short activity booklet for the July school holidays to guide teens and tweens through the problem-solving process as they come up with creative ideas that solve problems in the world around them. To download this free resource visit https://bit.ly/2NJ95wx

On the journey to adulthood, how do we teach our children to be good problem-solvers? Teen Start-Up has created an activity booklet for the July school holidays that helps to teach the problem-solving process through creative thinking. To download this free resource visit https://bit.ly/2NJ95wx