Topic: How to Conduct a User Interview
Audience: Fordham Masters of Business Students
Location: Fordham University in New York City

NEXT Innovation Scholars, Sophia Lammi, Charlie Harker, and myself traveled to New York with our Program Director Aaron Bradley, and our Program Manager Sydney Myers to teaching a workshop to Fordham business students. This was just one part of our continuous partnership with Fordham Professors Bozena Mierzejewska and Axel Roepnack.
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Topic: An Introduction to Design Thinking
Audience: University Honors Freshman
Location: The University of Cincinnati

A team of students and I were asked to design a workshop to introduce design thinking and then facilitate it with twelve sections of the Honors Gateway Class. Teaching the honors classes can be difficult, notably because the class is all first semester freshman and only an hour long. These were both key constraints we had to design around when we were developing the workshop.

Topic: Becoming Problem Obsessed with Design Thinking
Audience: Hackathon Participants
Location: The University of Cincinnati

The GraphUC Hackathon is a blockchain focused hackathon held in the fall at the University of Cincinnati. During the day they hold numerous different workshops that students can attend. I was asked by the organizers to design and facilitate a design thinking workshop with the goal of helping students come up with an idea for their hackathon project.

Topic: Landscape Analysis in a University Setting
Audience: University Students
Location: The University of Cincinnati

As part of my work with Stanford's University Innovation Fellows, my team was looking to do a STEEP Analysis with current students. A STEEP Analysis, which stands for Social, Technology, Economic, Environmental, and Political, is meant to help rapidly generate trends, insights, and observations. However, our group found that when analyzing the landscape of higher education, STEEP does not apply as well. So instead we developed DASHIE, Diversity & Inclusion, Academics, Social, Health, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, to act as a new set of categories. We then led an ideation workshop with thirty students.