Students will launch the project by exploring themes, audience perspectives, and circuit concepts through fast-paced collaborative tasks, then produce an empathy evidence set that captures early insights about readers, listeners, and community voices connected to the design challenge.

Students will synthesize interview notes, text evidence, and early circuit observations to define an evidence-based design challenge for their exhibit station. They will compare patterns across stakeholder groups, identify constraints and assumptions, draft a precise problem statement, and revise it through structured peer feedback and a brief recorded reflection.

Students will generate multiple evidence-based exhibit concepts for their Pages, Voices, and Light station, compare circuit and storytelling options, and select a promising lantern direction grounded in interview findings, Fahrenheit 451 themes, and practical design constraints.

Students will turn their selected concepts into first-draft exhibit components by building and documenting lantern prototypes, testing series and parallel circuit choices, and drafting clear theme-based explanations that connect interview findings and textual evidence. They will use modeling decisions, peer critique, and brief audio or video check-ins to strengthen their early prototypes before moving into formal testing.

Students will test their draft lanterns and exhibit explanations with peers and community-connected feedback, analyze performance and audience understanding using evidence, and document revisions that strengthen the final Pages, Voices, and Light station.

Students will critique their lantern exhibit station plans by testing how clearly their research, theme analysis, and circuit choices work together for an audience. They will use structured peer and teacher feedback to revise wiring diagrams, explanation cards, interview clip selections, and short presentation language before moving into final refinement.

Students will synthesize research, literary analysis, circuit design decisions, and presentation experience into a public exhibition and final reflection. They will present their Pages, Voices, and Light station to community guests, document how feedback shaped their lantern and message, and record evidence-based reflections on teamwork, speaking growth, and how their thinking about reading, memory, and questioning changed.