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compete360.org 267-886-8233 @compete360
How Will You Change Your World?
C R E A T I V I T Y
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Design thinking Philadelphia
Mastbaum AVT's school store project
Shawmont School's classroom improvement project
Garry Maddox and the Kensington Urban High School design team (KURB news project) Grover Washington, Jr. Middle School's student desk prototype
Think outside the circle
Compete 360 fosters a design thinking (DT) practice in city schools by training teachers and facilitating student-led projects that address a problem in the classroom, school, or community. Compete 360 also hosts the DT Philly Challenge (grades 6 - 12) and the DT Philly Showcase (grades K - 5), where students share their projects with professionals from the design and business communities.
Compete 360 is a 501(c)3 organization founded by Garry Maddox, a businessman and former Gold Glove centerfielder for the Philadelphia Phillies. Garry’s charity has been partnering with city schools to support the education and development of urban youth since 2000, and he believes design thinking promotes skills which are critical to success in the workplace and in higher education.
Compete 360's DT Philly initiative uses design thinking, a creative and structured approach to problem solving, to promote inquiry-based learning through the exploration of issues affecting students, schools, and communities. Taught at leading universities and used by cutting-edge companies, design thinking offers students in grades K-12 an engaging opportunity to hone competencies—including creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication—while actively connecting what they do in school to what goes on in the world around them.
The five steps of design thinking are: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Working through these steps, students practice skills that will serve them well in school and beyond. These skills include: empathy, as students observe people and situations to understand and frame a need; information synthesis, as they process data and observations to develop a point of view; risk taking and big-picture thinking, as they brainstorm potential solutions; visual literacy and modeling, as they construct prototypes of potential solutions; and reflection and analysis as they seek feedback in order to test and refine a solution.
Forty-eight teams in eighteen public schools participated in DT Philly last year, using Compete 360's curricula and resources to engage students in active problem solving.
At the high school level, students completed projects like Kensington Business High School's KURB News initiative, designed to build a sense of community across two merging schools while improving communication and information sharing.
Teams in the 6th - 8th grade division created designs like William C. Longstreth School’s system allowing students to share feedback with teachers in order to promote student engagement and effective classroom practices.
3rd - 5th grade teams designed around needs such as reducing conflict and promoting friendship in the classroom, as Hamilton Disston School students did by creating a mediated game-playing program.
At the K - 2 level, students produced designs like Laura H. Carnell School's system to help kindergartners learn and use appropriate erasing skills. There is no fee to participate in DT Philly. Training, curricula, supply kits, and project support are provided free of charge to participating schools.
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Design Thinking Philadelphia (DT Philly)
DT Philly Schools & Projects
“Wow! Just the experience was worth more than 3 years of what any worksheet or formal class experience could do.”
“I like that we get toimaginethings and then we get achance to make themcome true.”
“Great training. I will use all in my classroom!!”
“I really liked how well they took their research findings and applied it to their product.” "I wish I could do this all over again but better."
“The students demonstrated
strong empathy.”
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students share with me how engaged they are in the program and their project.
“It doesn’t get any better than this in terms of enrichment.”
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Be a project advisor or expert resource: We're looking for architects, engineers, designers, innovators, and other creative professionals and graduate students to field questions from or act as project advisors for our school teams.
Contribute goods or services: If you have skills, knowledge, or resources you can share to help us develop our program, expand our services, or support our students we'd love to hear from you.
Register a team: Principals or teachers (grades K-12) at Philadelphia public schools are invited to register teams for DT Philly at www.compete360.org.
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Review student projects: Encourage, support, and reward our students by joining a panel to provide positive feedback and constructive comments to teams when they present their final projects.
Make a donation: Every gift and sponsorship makes a difference. For more information or to give a gift, please call 267-886-8233 or email Kerry Ann Williams at [email protected].
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Think outside the circle compete360.org 267-886-8233 @compete360
WHAT WILL YOU CREATE TODAY?
C R E A T I V I T Y
C R I T I C A L T H I N K I N G
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Design thinking Philadelphia
Laura H. Carnell School's cafeteria project
S. Weir Mitchell School's quiet room design
Hamilton Disston School's puzzle pieces
Hamilton Disston School's classroom organization project Isaac A. Sheppard School's strainer projectLaura H. Carnell School's playground project
