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Plan
By Phase By Day Calendar
Launch
Students will launch the Future Auto Challenge by observing a real-world phenomenon, testing starter materials, and building shared expectations for how they will design a future car that balances performance, chemical energy, and environmental impact. They will begin using evidence, questions, and early feedback routines that carry into later phases.
Days 1 - 3
🚗 Future Auto Challenge Gallery
Launch 75m
🧪 Car Body Material Test Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
✏️ Car Idea Sketch Critique
Deliverable 75m
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
👀 Transit Needs Interview Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🗺️ User Notes to Empathy Map
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
⚙️ Material Samples and Pollution Clues
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
📞 Community Voices on Cleaner Cars
Community Experience 75m
🧩 Problem Themes and Need Statements
Deliverable 75m
✅ Empathy Evidence Checkpoint
Assessment 75m
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
⚛️ Materials and Bonding Evidence Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🧪 Fuel Reaction Decision Tools
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🌊 CO2 Impact Criteria Check
Research 75m
✍️ How Might We Brief Draft
Deliverable 75m
✅ Design Brief Milestone Review
Assessment 75m
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
🧪 Fuel Reaction Choice Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🧱 Body Materials Bonding Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
✏️ Three Future Car Concepts
Project Work 75m
📐 Low-Tech Prototype Build
Deliverable 75m
💬 Prototype Feedback Carousel
Community Experience 75m
✅ Concept Gate Review
Assessment 75m
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
🧪 Reaction Claims Mini-Clinic
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🛠️ Prototype Revision Sprint One
Project Work 75m
💬 Two-Peer Critique Protocol
Deliverable 75m
🌍 CO2 Water Impact Check
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🚗 Expert Validation and Sprint Two
Community Experience 90m
🖼️ Future Auto Expo Draft
Assessment 75m
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
🧭 Future Auto Expo Rehearsal
Deliverable 75m
💬 Expo Feedback and Revision
Project Work 75m
🚗 Community Showcase Presentations
Assessment 75m