Innovation III: Community—Creating and Innovating Beyond the School

Grade 8

Semester Course

Innovation 3 is part 3 of 3 in the Innovation series. It is a project-based course building upon the skills learned in Innovation 1 and 2: creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving and innovation. Students are independent in this course building leadership, interview, initiation and soft skills while providing commercials and footage for Teague Net-work News, the school’s in-house News Station as well as maintaining and planning Innovation bulletin board. The course is divided into 3 parts. The first part is showcasing mastery of skills learned din Innovation 1 & 2 . Students work as a team to complete various challenges while taking surveys and gathering student body input to plan and prototype products with an emphasis on collaboration. The second part is mastery in technical skills Google Slides, Pixton, video creation, 3-D modeling and printing and the design thinking process. The third part consolidates the skills from Innovation 1 and 2 to complete a Passion Project and a Shark Tank Invention.