The 3-Day Sustainability Mini-Challenge is designed to expose entrepreneurially minded students and University community members to the Design Thinking process to help them generate a solution to an identified problem related to sustainability at Penn State using human-centered design principles. Participants will be grouped into teams of 3-4 individuals, and all participants will work through a 3-day process focused on defining, ideating, prototyping, and presenting a solution to a given problem.
No registration required.Teams will present their solutions and next steps to a panel of judges, with members of the top three teams earning various prizes:
- 1st place: Bose Soundlink Mini II
- 2nd place: FijifilmInsta Mini 9 Instant Camera
- 3rd place: Echo Dot Smart speaker
Individuals who participate in all three nights of the challenge will earn an
IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner Badge.
