Concept Development for Impact 2018
Day 2 — Dig deeper into the issue
It was the second day of Concept Creation for Impact, a five-day training program on project based learning. The participants were Nepali students from King’s College, Kathmandu University (School of Management, and School of Engineering), Orchid International College, Sagarmatha Engineering College, and Gate College as well as Finnish students from Oulu University of Applied Sciences.
In the first day, the students had a crash course on design thinking process, researched on a broad social issue, went to interview people in order to identify the specific and deeper problems, and worked on the empathy map to make sense of the interview in relation to their problem.
The second day (June 14, 2018) started with the students getting to figure out that they are still in the phase where they need to dig deeper into understanding the problem itself rather than jumping into the solution. They started the day with creating a customer’s journey map. It was an exercise which helped them focus once again on the interviews they conducted the day before to refine the problem areas that they were working on.
They were supposed to present their findings in Gate Presentations in front of their fellows, trainers, and judges, and for that they got ideas from a Keynote speaker, Abhisekh Maskey, who talked about how to make their presentations more effective.
After the lunch break, with their findings, and problem refining exercises the students created presentations that would last for three minutes after which the judges provided feedback and asked questions that further helped them to refine the problem. The broader problems provided to them involved issues of the elderly, smoking addiction, stray dogs, household waste, pregnancy, orphanage, school bullying, and water pollution.
After the gate presentations, the student groups evaluated themselves and one of the other groups in two Feedback Circles of around 25 students each.
Moments captured of the day — link to Facebook
