Nov 25, 2014
The Italian Delegation addresses the problem of paper waste on campus. While recycling bins are available, they look exactly like regular trash cans, so they designed different looking bins.
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The Italian Delegation addresses the problem of paper waste on campus. While recycling bins are available, they look exactly like regular trash cans, so they designed different looking bins.
Seniors Tackle Real Life Challenge for Social Good
11/20/2014
Students from the International Emerging Leaders Senior Seminar class participated this past week in another global collaboration, this time using technology.
Students formed teams of three or four to put the design thinking training they received as part of the Emerging Leaders conference curriculum to use tackling a big problem. The challenge of how to ensure children of low income communities thrive in their first five years was put out to the world through Open IDEO, a new initiative from the originators of the design thinking methodology. This is a new platform to open-source problem solving with participants from around the world, of every age and every background. The Collegiate teams uploaded their proposals and received feedback from other teams around the world. Several concepts will be chosen and funded in order to address the issue when the challenge closes in January. Good luck, Cougars!
After IELC, the Spanish delegation addressed the excessive use of water at their school in the toilets, using Design Thinking to create the product "Recycle Water."
The delegation from Changzhou shares their Design Thinking documentation and prototype as they tackled the problem of food waste on campus after returning from IELC 2014.
The second part of the prototype from Changzhou on food waste at their school.
From the Malaysian Delegates:
After a few weeks of working on the IELC project, we are proud to say that we have finally finished it!
Okay, so we decided that we’d fix one of our school’s major problem, which would be wastage of paper. With that, we have designed a contraption which would hopefully benefit our school in the near future.
Presenting you…
The “Dunk the Junk” Trash can !!! (DJ.T for short)
Unlike the normal recycling bin, we designed this so that the students are able to recycle trash in an enjoyable way. Basically, it’s like basketball. Remember all those times you tried to throw trash from a distance but it always misses? Well, the “Dunk the Junk” allows all attempted throws a higher chance of ‘scoring’.
Though, the basketball feature is especially for plastic bottles since one way of recycling them would be crushing them. So all that’s left is to throw it away!
The second recycling part which is basically connected to the main part is a compartment for recycling bundles of paper.
Both parts of the “Dunk the Junk” have a see-through glass/plastic cut rectangle/square. This allows students to see the level of trash being thrown. Once they see the ‘clear cut’ is full, students have to already stop throwing their recycled items to avoid overflowing the bins.
Another special feature that we added to our project is the built-in air freshener. How does this work, you might ask? Well, once both compartments are about to be full, fragrance will be emitted/sprayed from time to time with about 15 to 30 minutes interval to prevent any bad odour until the bins are emptied. This helps us to maintain a good environment that does not stink. Moreover, it will not disgust the cleaners who will dispose the junk that were “dunked” in our “Dunk The Junk.”
Our hope is that this product will help us to reduce the wastage of papers and plastics as well as promote recycling in a fun way.
We would start this project at a small scale in our school by placing it at one or two places to observe its effectiveness. Hopefully, it will work well enough for us to continue it.
More pictures from Malaysian delegates!
The delegates from Malaysia have been hard at work on implementing Design Thinking at St. George's School.