Zoom into the Future Car Factory!

✏️ Car Idea Sketch Critique

👀 Transit Needs Interview Practice

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User Research Synthesis

Students will synthesize interview, observation, and quick evidence from real users to identify transportation and environmental needs, build empathy artifacts, check assumptions against data, and refine the design problem their future car should address.

Days 4 - 9

🗺️ User Notes to Empathy Map

⚙️ Material Samples and Pollution Clues

📞 Community Voices on Cleaner Cars

Community Experience 75m

🧩 Problem Themes and Need Statements

✅ Empathy Evidence Checkpoint

⚛️ Materials and Bonding Evidence Lab

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Design Brief Creation

Students will turn user research and science evidence into a focused future-car design brief by defining a clear problem, checking assumptions against evidence, and setting measurable success criteria for materials, energy systems, and environmental impact before moving into concept generation.

Days 10 - 15

🧭 Future Car Needs Sort

Launch 75m

🧪 Fuel Reaction Decision Tools

🌊 CO2 Impact Criteria Check

Research 75m

✍️ How Might We Brief Draft

✅ Design Brief Milestone Review

🧪 Fuel Reaction Choice Lab

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Concepts Prototyped

Students will turn their design briefs into multiple future-car concepts, compare options with evidence-based criteria, build low-fidelity prototypes, and use peer and user feedback to revise a chosen direction for the next phase.

Days 16 - 21

🧱 Body Materials Bonding Sort

Knowledge/Skill Building 60m

✏️ Three Future Car Concepts

Project Work 75m

📐 Low-Tech Prototype Build

💬 Prototype Feedback Carousel

Community Experience 75m

✅ Concept Gate Review

🧪 Reaction Claims Mini-Clinic

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Prototype Validated Expo

Students will refine their future-car prototype through two documented feedback-and-revision cycles, validate design choices with a new user or community voice, and assemble an evidence-based Future Auto Expo presentation that explains materials, fuel chemistry, environmental impact, and next steps.

Days 22 - 27

Knowledge/Skill Building 60m

🛠️ Prototype Revision Sprint One

Project Work 75m

💬 Two-Peer Critique Protocol

Knowledge/Skill Building 60m

🌍 CO2 Water Impact Check

🚗 Expert Validation and Sprint Two

Community Experience 90m

🖼️ Future Auto Expo Draft

🧭 Future Auto Expo Rehearsal

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Showcase

Students will finalize and present their future car solutions to an authentic audience, use audience and peer feedback to explain and defend their design decisions, and reflect on how chemistry evidence, user needs, and environmental impact shaped their prototype revisions.

Days 28 - 30

💬 Expo Feedback and Revision

Project Work 75m

🚗 Community Showcase Presentations