Add some personality and individualism to each participant’s company.

For participants to understand how to evaluate and increase their accountability.

Address challenges from the Identifying Gaps lesson and commit to solutions.

Reflect on current progress, set desired outcomes, and generate strategies to bridge the gap to the showcase.

To enhance group dynamics and build camaraderie through team building activities chosen to fit the group's current Group Development Stage.

For participants to learn, practice, and reflect on key presentation skills that will help them share their project effectively at the ending showcase.

Continue improving participants’ companies by exploring a second iteration of prototyping.

For participants to consider the different elements that make up success for individuals and organizations.

Strengthen projects through structured peer feedback with Two Stars and a Wish.

Solidify Phase 1 milestones and reflect as a team on what worked well and what needs improvement.

Participants will pick one product from their company to bring to life as a 3D model.

Participants will synthesize everything they know about companies, decide on their own Company Attributes, and create a draft of their Company Profile.

For participants to be introduced to different elements of project planning and gain the ability to plan and execute a project from start to finish.

Participants deepen their understanding of companies by exploring questions generated in the previous lesson and capturing insights through interactive research stations.

Encourage participants to share what they already know about companies and generate new questions that will guide their research.

Launch the Build a Company project with a high-energy reveal and show the roadmap so students see where we're headed.

To understand the different roles we play in groups and explore how to collaborate more effectively based on preferred roles.

For participants to understand that conflict and feedback are related, and that when and how feedback is given impacts its ability to be effective.

For participants to reflect on what makes effective or ineffective feedback and how feedback can affect individual and group performance.

For participants to gain insight into their own and their project group’s working styles, and consider how these dynamics can either support or obstruct the achievement of shared goals.