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Discover
Students will investigate how overcrowding shapes protest safety and effectiveness, identify who is most affected, and frame evidence-based questions that will guide later research and investigation design.
Days 1 - 3
🚦 Protest Crowd Scenario Launch
Launch 60m
🧭 Challenge Definition
Deliverable 60m
👥 End User Overview
Deliverable 60m

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Examine
Students will investigate why protest overcrowding becomes dangerous or ineffective, evaluate evidence from scientific and civic sources, plan and analyze a crowd-flow investigation, and use feedback to refine a research-backed direction for a crowd-safety solution for the NYCLU and fire department.
Days 4 - 17
🧭 NYCLU Safety Evidence Map
Launch 45m
📚 Credible Crowd-Flow Sources
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📝 Source Evaluation Report
Deliverable 75m
🚒 Fire Department Q&A Notes
Community Experience 60m
❓ Testable Protest Questions
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🗺️ Route Bottleneck Root Causes
Deliverable 75m
🎯 Simulation Method and Variables
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🏃 Crowd Movement Trial Run
Project Work 60m
📊 Graphs and Density Maps
Project Work 60m
🔍 Peer Review on Data Claims
Research 45m
🛠️ Revised Investigation Notes
Deliverable 60m
💡 Solution Proposal
Deliverable 75m
🗣️ NYCLU Feedback and Revision
Assessment 60m

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Engineer
Students will turn their research findings into tested design ideas for safer, more effective protests by studying strong examples, writing a testable hypothesis, planning a prototype, gathering user feedback, and revising their solution based on evidence from peers and community partners.
Days 18 - 26
🧭 Protest Route Criteria Sprint
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
📊 Bottleneck Map Mini-Lab
Knowledge/Skill Building 60m
🧪 Hypothesis
Deliverable 45m
🔎 Exemplar Exploration
Deliverable 60m
🗺️ Creation Plan
Deliverable 60m
✏️ Prototype Build and User Flow
Project Work 75m
🗣️ Feedback Carousel with NYCLU Lens
Community Experience 60m
🚒 Fire Department Design Check
Community Experience 60m
📝 Solution Development Report
Deliverable 60m

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Do
Students will pilot their crowd-safety solutions in a realistic simulation, collect evidence on movement and risk, revise based on peer and user-centered feedback, and document whether their recommendations could help local organizers run safer, more effective protests.
Days 27 - 29
🗺️ Implementation and Data Collection Plan
Deliverable 50m
🎥 Route Test and Peer Revision
Project Work 70m
📊 Implementation Results
Deliverable 60m

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Share
Students will present the impact of their protest crowd-safety work to an authentic audience and document how their scientific reasoning, design decisions, and professional identity as community organizers developed across the project.
Day 30
🌱 Growth Reflection
Assessment 60m

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