Today you are not students. You are designers.
This is not a class. It's not a competition. It's a design sprint and by the end of today you will have built something real, tested it with real people, and pitched it in front of an audience.
The adults in this room are not here to watch. They will use what you build and tell you what doesn't work. That feedback will change your design. That's the whole point.
You don't have to answer the big question all at once.
Your team will find your specific angle after the Foil Chair Challenge.
Here are the focus areas teams might land in, based on what genuinely matters to you.
You don't need to memorize a framework. You're about to experience
it with your hands in the Foil Chair Challenge. But here's the shape
of what you'll move through today — five phases, one after another,
each one building on the last.
In about 3 minutes you're going to build a chair out of aluminum foil. You won't know why until after.