New STEMwave season in #Croatia starts in just a few weeks. 🥳 #Innovation Day 2024 conference serves as a reminder of what it looks like when you give #K12 students access to cutting-edge #technologies.
Is your school district ready for a project like this? 💡 #STEM#education
A new chapter begins! 📖✨
As we entered the strategic partnership with @the_IDB , our CEO @mtroselj and Šime Magaš were at their annual meeting in #Chile, and layed foundations for the upcoming joint ventures in Latin America! #education
Moments like these bring us great joy and remind us of what we keep on preaching - even the smallest drop can create a wave. ❤
Drop by drop, we’re creating a ripple of change in education worldwide. 💧💧💧🌊
In today’s edition of one of Croatia’s most-read daily newspapers @24sata_HR , you’ll find "STEMwave - School of the Future" mentor Marina Blaževac and her amazing students from a small rural school in eastern #Croatia. 💥🚀 #education#STEM
Takeaways
❗Life itself is a design challenge. Just like DT, it requires us to ask questions, explore possibilities, and adapt to new situations. 💡
❗Start small, ask big q, and see how far your creativity and curiosity can take you. ✨
❗The future belongs to the curious! 💥🚀
#designthinking ideas for teachers/parents:
✅ redesign classroom layout
✅ spark curiosity with open-ended questions like, “What do you think would happen if we planted a garden?”
✅ turn fridge into a whiteboard for the upcoming birthday party project
#creativity#curisity
It is an excellent starting point for anyone looking to develop problem-solving #skills, foster #creativity, and understand the fundamentals of #innovation. Its a strong foundation for applying DT principles to real-world challenges in education, work, or everyday life.
These skills help us solve problems, adapt to new situations, and explore possibilities we hadn’t considered before. They are used anywhere and anytime, and are very much in demand as top qualities in #leadership according to the #Harvard Business School research. 💡
🌟 IKEA’s 🚪 flat-pack furniture was born from a creative approach to making quality products affordable and easy to transport
🌟 Airbnb 🌴 revolutionized the #hospitality industry by empathizing with travelers and hosts, creating a platform that connects people worldwide
🌟 when NASA 🚀 engineers developed solutions to send rovers to Mars, they relied on creative problem-solving and an insatiable curiosity about the unknown
#Creativity and #curiosity are like muscles - they grow stronger the more we use them. Here's a few examples of how these two transformational forces/skills impacted industries and lives 👇🏼:
🌟 or think about Oprah Winfrey🎤; when she transitioned from television host to media mogul, her curiosity about people and creativity in #storytelling helped her connect with audiences in a transformative way
🌟 Marie Curie’s 🧪 relentless curiosity about the unknown led to groundbreaking discoveries in radioactivity, despite the societal barriers she faced. Ultimately, she became the first person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different fields – #Physics and #Chemistry 🤯
These steps cultivate the #skills we need to approach challenges with #creativity and #curiosity. 💡 In fact, according to #Harvard Business School, these soft skills are some of the top qualities in #leadership today! 💡 #education
Albert Einstein once said, “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
This simple statement reveals a profound truth: creativity and curiosity are the driving forces behind great discoveries and life-changing innovations. 💥🚀
#DesignThinking is a step-by-step loop process that helps us:
✔ Empathize: understand the need
✔ Define: clarify the problem
✔ Ideate: brainstorm creative solutions
✔ Prototype: create a small version of the idea
✔ Test: learn & refine