Students will launch the sleep-invention challenge by examining community-vetted cultural examples, interpreting stories through movement and drama, and gathering evidence about people’s sleep needs from community partners.

Students will organize evidence from the Pajama and Patterns Gallery and community conversations to identify sleep needs, distinguish observations from assumptions, and frame an evidence-based design challenge that respects specific Indigenous, Mexican, and Afro-Latino communities.

Students will use evidence about user needs and specific Indigenous, Mexican, and Afro-Latino sleep traditions to generate varied invention ideas, communicate possible functions through movement and drawing, and select a culturally respectful direction for prototyping.

Students will turn earlier user research and community-specific cultural learning into an annotated plan, practice safe model-making techniques, improve a blueprint through two rounds of peer feedback, and build an initial low-tech sleep-invention prototype ready for later testing.

Students will practice safe, respectful prototype testing, gather feedback from peers and community users, make one evidence-based improvement, and document unresolved questions for critique.

Students will practice respectful critique, exchange evidence-based feedback with two peer teams, and revise one prototype feature to improve comfort, cultural respect, and usefulness.

Students will trace how research and feedback shaped their sleep inventions, revise and rehearse their explanations, and present their final prototypes at a gallery walk for peers, families, friends, and community partners.