Students will engage directly with community members and peers to understand real experiences related to puberty and period product access. They will surface assumptions, conduct structured interviews, and create empathy maps grounded in direct quotes and observations to inform their later problem definition.

Students will synthesize their interview findings and empathy work into a focused, evidence-based problem statement that names a specific user, identifies a core need, and reframes the challenge around puberty and period product access.

Students will generate a wide range of human-centered solutions to their defined puberty access problem, evaluate ideas against real user evidence, and produce annotated concept sketches that serve as blueprints for prototyping.

Students will build, test, and refine tangible prototypes of their Community Period Access Solution using real user feedback. They will move from rapid low-fidelity models to improved versions while documenting how evidence from users drives design decisions.

Students will validate their refined Community Period Access Solution with a new user, make final evidence-based adjustments, and present their full human-centered design journey to families and partners from At The Crossroads at a public exhibition.