Technologies · Year 9 · Design and Technologies: Innovation, Materials and Sustainability · Extension Unit
Innovation Project
Students respond to a design challenge by researching, prototyping, testing, and evaluating an innovative solution with attention to sustainability.
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Students respond to a design challenge by researching, prototyping, testing, and evaluating an innovative solution with attention to sustainability.
Key Questions
- How do we know our innovation is genuinely new and not a re-skin?
- Which testing methods reveal the failure modes our prototype hides?
- What does our evaluation say about scalability beyond our prototype?
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