The entrepreneurial mindset thrives on networking, enhancing opportunities for success. Teachers and students gain recognition through collaboration and sharing experiences, exemplified by the NOVA Lab’s partnership with Ursinus College’s entrepreneurship program. An engaging visit allowed students to present projects and receive valuable feedback, emphasizing the importance of connections and experiential learning.
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NOVA Lab Notables No. 2: Events, Feedback, Alumni
The second installment of our shout outs to those who help us grow and learn takes us to the work of Aysia Woods-Drayton, and the Feedback of almost 25 different people. Let’s dive in. Aysia Woods-Drayton is familiar with the work we do in NOVA Lab. Back in 2021, Aysia spoke to NOVA Lab studentsContinue reading “NOVA Lab Notables No. 2: Events, Feedback, Alumni”
NOVA Lab Notables: No. 1
A quick hit of NOVA Lab Goodness, ’cause we’re always trying to “Do Good Things.” Notables are media heavy, text lite, and just right for honoring the work we do and the people who help us.
From Design Thinking to Futures Thinking (part 1)
In which we explore our class’s shift from a focus on Design Thinking to incorporating Design Thinking with Futures Thinking and its attendant skills in Scenario Planning, Foresight, Signal and Trend spotting, and Protopian thinking.
“Well,How Did I Get Here?*” Or … Thank You.
I am not an entrepreneur. I do not own a business. Serial startups are not my thing. I am however, entrepreneurially minded. After almost 25 years of living, breathing, and evolving my understandings of creativity–from self-expressive to problem solving to problem finding and the applied creativity of design–I’ve come to enjoy the risks of startingContinue reading ““Well,How Did I Get Here?*” Or … Thank You.”
Measure Less, Learn More: Unrulr and The Celebration of Communities of Learning
How giving students the power to document learning in the moment leads to more authentic, deeper learning.
Do Good Things Newsletter: Warren Buffett on Happiness
Last year I started a weekly (mostly…sometimes…infrequently) newsletter focusing on the good things that designers and other creatives in the world have been doing to try to make a positive impact on the world. From coffee shops, to bike paths, to baseball camps for young children…there’s a lot of good going on in a worldContinue reading “Do Good Things Newsletter: Warren Buffett on Happiness”
Do Good Things Spotlight: “Cleanliness is Next to Goodliness”
Two NOVA Lab Entrepreneurs design and prototype a device for the common good.
Fluxspace 2.0: The Return
NOVA Lab students return to Fluxspace to present their projects to panels of community members, parents, and business people.
Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing”
The last newsletter introduced us to the good that comes from planning (and growing) towns and cities at a human scale. Towns thus planned allowed neighborhood businesses to flourish. Barber shops, mercantiles, restaurants, bars, doctors…all these small businesses, vital to the health and well-being of citizens were also vital to the life of the townContinue reading “Backyard Beans: “A Small, Good Thing””
Innovation Lab 