Students will launch the project, organize what they know from City of Ember and sustainability research, define a community-centered problem, and create a team design brief with feedback and revision before a milestone check.

Students will generate several different solution ideas for a community need connected to City of Ember and a chosen Sustainable Development Goal, use evidence and user needs to critique those ideas, and select one direction to carry into prototyping with documented reasons, revisions, and risks.

Students will build and test low-fidelity solution prototypes, gather user-centered feedback, revise their ideas through two documented iteration cycles, and prepare a concise digital prototype showcase that explains how evidence from City of Ember, nonfiction research, and user feedback shaped their design choices.

Students will present their final digital sustainability solutions to an authentic audience, use audience and peer feedback to strengthen how they communicate their ideas, and complete a final reflection that explains how evidence from City of Ember, nonfiction research, and design revision shaped their work.

Students will enter the project through an immersive challenge, connect early ideas from City of Ember to community sustainability issues, and set collaborative routines that prepare them for later research, discussion, and design work.

Students will gather user and text-based evidence, organize what they learned about community needs and sustainability issues, and create planning artifacts that prepare them for a strong digital showcase and individual written explanation.