Your child picks a real problem, figures out who it affects, brainstorms solutions, builds a prototype from whatever is around the house, tests it, gets feedback, and makes it better. Design thinking the way real engineers and inventors actually work, applied to everyday life.
Ages 9–14 · Project guide · 3 skill levels
Your child picks a real problem, works out who it actually affects, then builds a prototype out of what is in the house and tests it on someone. It fails somewhere, gets revised, and gets tested again. The revision loop is the whole point.
The skill of breaking a fuzzy problem into clear steps quietly compounds. Kids who practice it run their own day in their teens, their own life in their twenties.
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Designed by a teacher with 15 years of classroom experience, now homeschooling her own kids.
