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Evolving the Museum Experience: Human-centered Design to Inspire Creative Community-based Solutions

October 1, 2018 - September 30, 2021 | Public Programs

The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry will inspire diverse youth and families to use 21st century skills by creating hands-on Design Challenges where visitors work together to design and test multidisciplinary sustainable solutions to real-world problems. The museum will work closely with Oregon MESA, an organization that uses human-centered Design Challenges to teach STEM, invention, and 21st Century Skills to middle and high school students historically underrepresented in STEM fields. Project deliverables will include three Design Challenges; a Design Challenge Collaboration Playbook outlining how to develop Design Challenges using human-centered design in collaboration with MESA youth, families, and staff; and A MESA-OMSI Collaboration Sustainability Plan that lays out how to continue the partnership and programs beyond the grant. The impacts on families will be explored during front-end, formative, and summative evaluation activities.

Funders

IMLS
Funding Program: Museums for America
Award Number: MA-10-18-0388-18
Funding Amount: $249,775

TEAM MEMBERS

  • Andrew Haight
    Principal Investigator
    Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
  • Discipline: Engineering
    Audience: Middle School Children (11-13) | Youth/Teen (up to 17) | Families | Museum/ISE Professionals
    Environment Type: Public Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs

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