Empathize
You will conduct interviews with a local bakery owner to gain insights into their operations, customer preferences, and marketing strategies, and document your findings to identify key components of a successful bakery business.
Days 1 - 3
Interview a Local Bakery Owner
Launch 90m
Empathy & Interview Notes
Deliverable 120m
Define
You will consolidate your research on bakery science, entrepreneurship, and marketing into a clear problem statement that identifies the essential components needed for a successful bakery startup, laying the groundwork for your innovative baking business.
Days 4 - 6
Finalize Essential Questions & Observation Plan
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Define Bakery Startup Needs
Deliverable 60m
Ideate
You will brainstorm various baking recipes, marketing strategies, and branding ideas, organizing a collaborative session with classmates to share and build upon each other's creative ideas, leading to the development of a comprehensive business plan for your bakery venture.
Days 7 - 10
No activities have been added to this phase yet.
Prototype
You will create prototypes of your baked goods, refine your recipes based on peer critiques, document your experimentation and adaptations through engaging social media content, and gather community feedback to improve your final products for exhibition.
Days 11 - 15
Recipe Scaling & Ingredient Proportions
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Interview Bakery Owner: Marketing Insights
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Documenting Experiments for Social Media
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Peer Feedback & Recipe Iteration
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Exhibition Prep: Display & Pricing
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Prototype Feedback to Plan Iterations
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Prototype Iteration Pack
Deliverable 60m
Prototype Refinement & Feedback Prep
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Community Feedback Protocol
Deliverable 60m
Test/Present
You will present your baked goods to the community, engaging with customers to gather feedback and assess your effectiveness in communicating your baking journey and insights through social media, while reflecting on the entire project process to identify personal growth and learning outcomes.
Days 16 - 20
Document Baking Experiments with Detailed Logs
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Prepare Interview Questions for Bakery Partner
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Bakery Recipe Costing and Pricing
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Social Media Content Plan for Experiments
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Mentor Check-In and Reflective Planning
Knowledge/Skill Building 45m
Prepare Mock Pop-Up Pitch and Feedback
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
Pop-Up Bakery Showcase
Assessment 120m