These are the introduction slides for a proposed talk for SXSWedu 2018 about Invention Studio, a high school accelerator for social impact products.

1. Invention
Studio
A high school accelerator for social impact products

2. Why?

3. High school students are at the perfect point in
their lives where they are capable, creative, and
caring.

4. Engineering
Design
thinking
Social
Impact

5. Our Impact: Projects
social anxiety animal rights
homelessness blindness

6. 94% report that they feel more confident in their ability to
make an impact
94% report feeling more curious about the world
81% report feeling more capable as engineers
Our teams are majority female-led.
Our Impact: Students

7. testimonials
“I used to think I wasn't capable of creating an end
product in a project. Now I think that I am more than
capable and my creative ideas for projects need to be
heard!”
“One of my strengths after this class is a new
understanding of how the design thinking process can be
applied to solve a problem, and how it can be utilized to
solve almost any problem.”

8. INVENTION
STUDIO