Impact Days.
Fuel ambition, spark ideas and empower your students through Design Thinking.
a Generation Innovation Impact Day?
What is
A one-day, fully immersive design thinking experience for groups of 90+ students aged 16-18-years-old (5th-U6th years) held onsite at your venue.
No need to mobilise, we’ll come to you and take your students on a design thinking journey that will lead them from identifying a problem, working through several stages to iterate and design a prototype/solution all in the one day.
On this journey, your students will learn important skills at each stage, including user-centred design, teamwork, and critical thinking. The Impact Day will also help foster soft skills such as empathy, emotional intelligence, and resilience.
Our 2022/23 Impact Day Partners.
What happens on the day?
Our team of design thinking trainers will come to your venue and will deliver a design sprint, working through several stages of the design thinking methodology. During the design sprint, there will be creative icebreakers and fun games to stimulate ideas and keep the energy alive.
Empathise
Understanding the user base and ‘consumer’, how they interact with the world/system or product, and understanding their needs and behaviours.
Define
Each team will work together to define a problem and then design a solution. This could even be applied to improving something within your everyday life, asking the question, ‘How might we…?
Ideate
Our team will work with your students in different groups and walk them through an ideation phase where they can start to design and develop a solution for the defined problem. Here, students will contribute ideas, challenge assumptions, and work together as a team to develop a solution.
Present
At the end of the day, each team will present their solution to the group in a very welcoming and engaging environment.
We will finish the day with a visit from a number of our partner companies who will demonstrate some innovative technology and share their own start-up journey. Students will become part of the Generation Innovation community and will be given branded merchandise to remember the experience alongside resources to continue their journey.
Criteria for an Impact Day:
Students must be 16-to-18-year-olds (5th to U6th years)
Minimum of 90 students
Impact Days are delivered between 9am and 3pm on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Students must be available during this time & day.
Access to technology including projector, screen, and speakers
A minimum of one additional breakout room
Tables of no more than 8 students
Technician onsite
Access to the space from 7:30am to set up
Images of the hosting space and breakout room(s) sent to the Generation Innovation team at least one week in advance
Wi-Fi available
Absolutely nothing, this is a fully funded programme with no cost to you; all we need is a dedicated space and time to deliver the Impact Day.
What will it cost?
Bookings are now open for the 2023/24 academic year. Please register your interest in a FREE Generation Innovation Impact Day via the link below.