In this beginner-level Udemy course, students practice each step of the design thinking process by completing a series of hands-on activities. My role with this project included designing the overall course and writing and delivering content through a series of videos.
The Resilience Challenge
Founder & Director, Oct 2014-present
The Resilience Challenge was a 9-week bootcamp and social impact competition for that trained Bay Area teenagers to use design, technology and the startup mindset to prototype solutions for civic issues.
City X Project
Lead Creator, Writer & Director, 2012-2014 I was the Director of City X Project curriculum, the largest initiative of the nonprofit I founded with Brett Schilke and Matthew Straub. We developed and tested the comprehensive classroom workshop through 17 iterations in five countries and three languages. After testing the curriculum with over a thousand students, we released it in April …
Exponential Youth Camp
Director, Curriculum Designer & Facilitator, 2013-2014 The Exponential Youth Camp at Singularity University is a residential summer program for high school students at the NASA Ames Research Park in Mountain View, California. The program empowers young future leaders with life-changing, hands-on education and challenges them to build solutions to global grand challenges using exponential technology. One team of students in …