Designing with Empathy: Helping Through Making

Imagine waking up as a real superhero, ready to help your neighborhood just like Spider-Man! Just like our friendly neighborhood hero, you don’t need a cape to be a legendary hero, because kindness and caring for others is the greatest superpower of all. Our journey will begin by taking a deeper look at empathy and discover how kindness for others can be its own creative superpower. Each day onwards, we’ll tackle new problems, from nagging injuries to cleaning playground parks, with robotic gadgets and learn how to create positive differences with the Design Thinking Process. With the problems getting bigger and bigger, we’ll need all the help we can get! Will you join us on our empathy-driven Hero Mission?

Campers will:

• Learn to use the Design Thinking Process to brainstorm multiple solutions that can help others with their everyday issues. 
• Build helpful robotic inventions using robotics and engineering mechanisms to turn caring ideas into empathetic solutions. 
• Complete their hero mission by using their empathetic creations to help their teachers with adult struggles.