For this 5th blog post, I would like to share with you a recent public engagement activity that I co-lead with the help of another individual from the BSA. Together we held a design thinking and patch designing workshop for 11 youth and 9 adults. Here are the resources we used to teach it:
These were the slides in the slide show. We didn’t spend too much time on these, but we did elaborate on each of the points much more than what is said on the slide itself.
Here is the worksheet we handed out:
It was made to help individuals through the patch design thinking process and shows a few examples of patches.
Here is a picture of the workshop in progress:
After getting through our material, we showed the room some of our previous designs and then all together the room worked on a design.
I think the workshop went well, with individuals of all ages participating and getting interested in the process. Some were not as involved as you would hope, but I would say a healthy amount were active in the workshop. The Information was valuable, and from what I heard as feedback, helpful to a majority of the people attending. I would like to lead a workshop like this again in the future, though a little bit more streamlined.
Thanks for reading, go design enchantment!
-Maxxon Yocom