James Madison University
Water to STEAM
STEAMy Projects
Design Thinking
Design thinking is an multistep process that takes a more intimate approach to understanding, defining, and creating solutions to difficult challenges. The process is broken down into five steps:
Each step is vital in approaching a problem and the process is not necessarily a chronological one. You can revisit each step throughout the entire design process.
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Throughout the STEAM Team’s five weeks in Ireland, they partook in two community engagement projects, one in Rathangan and another in Cork, where they implemented design thinking.​
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Community Engagement Projects:
View two different community engagement projects, each focused on the environmental degradation occurring in Ireland and how water is an important resource being negatively affected by this change.
Rathangan, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Learning Records