Launch
Launch
Students will investigate low-speed collision phenomena, connect the driving questions to school entrance safety, and launch the project by generating evidence-based wonderings, initial system models, and a short voice reflection about predictions, uncertainty, and team decision-making.
Day 1
Empathy & Assumptions
Empathy & Assumptions
Students will gather direct user evidence about school entrance traffic, connect stakeholder experiences to force, impulse, and momentum ideas, and turn observations and interview data into a draft design brief with testable assumptions and a physics-grounded How Might We statement.
Days 2 - 5
Prototype & Showcase
Prototype & Showcase
Students will converge on one school-entrance safety direction, build and revise a low-fidelity prototype through two documented feedback cycles, and prepare a stakeholder-facing validation set that connects user evidence with force, impulse, and momentum reasoning.
Days 6 - 9
Showcase
Showcase
Students will present their school entrance safety proposals to an authentic audience through a public gallery walk, gather stakeholder feedback on how well their recommendations use force, impulse, and momentum evidence, and record a short voice reflection about how their ideas changed through testing, critique, and revision.
Day 10
Launch
Days 1–1
Empathy & Assumptions
Days 2–5
Prototype & Showcase
Days 6–9
Showcase
Days 10–10
July 2026
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
28
Day 2
Empathy & Assumptions
πΊοΈ Entrance Flow Physics Mini-Clinic
πΊοΈ Entrance Flow Physics Mini-Clinic
29
Day 3
π€ Driver and Staff Field Interviews
π€ Driver and Staff Field Interviews
30
Day 4
π Momentum Assumptions Evidence Sort
π Momentum Assumptions Evidence Sort
31
Day 5
π§ Design Brief Checkpoint
π§ Design Brief Checkpoint
August 2026
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
3
Day 6
Prototype & Showcase
π§ Safety Feature Decision Matrix
π§ Safety Feature Decision Matrix
4
Day 7
π οΈ Cart Impact Prototype Build
π οΈ Cart Impact Prototype Build
5
Day 8
π Peer Critique and Revision Loop
π Peer Critique and Revision Loop
6
Day 9
π€ Stakeholder Validation Board
π€ Stakeholder Validation Board