Farming and solar energy supply-Story Telling    Challenge &Selection:    The tool that I am using is Story telling for a better experience in design thinking problems. Story telling  enables to understand the problems  and display the problem in a manner of top-down approach i.e  ,  by substituting the main problem into solvable smaller problems and funneling the solutions through  pro’s and con’s. With no more in the hands of people than an technological marvel-like a light bulb that  could be switched on and off with a message. With the production cost of solar panels dropping and  mobile panels rising its way to top, Villagers in their everyday life need electricity for like powering their  tractor for plowing or their generator for watering the crops etc. So like this problem farmers face many  more , so breaking a massive problem  into smaller helps a lot . As nowadays farmers have a lot of  problems like locust attacks and flodding and soil erosion.     Application:    I have a story about farming. Observing villagers in their everyday life and talking to them and surveying  their localities. I have concluded that farmers need lots of upgrades and tech to support their needs of  farming like tractors or motors etc, and they need a lot of electricity and the potential use of mobile  solar panels. The only setback or disadvantage was that lack of maintenance infrastructure. So the  starting point of maintenance is the systems installation on the roof of the house. So when building a  house, people pick up the material needed at markets and transport it themselves the last few  kilometers to their homes. Because rural area like villages that are far from a main city or the service  centre are far away then the needy farmers and the villages don’t even have gps or delivery option so as  in an analogy, people can sell their product at informal marketplaces and customers take the  components and the required maintenance products to their homes where they can meet the service  technician who then assembles and installs the maintenance parts.    Insight & Approach:  The field experiment is ongoing. Only the future will show whether a solar powered tractor for plowing  or a motor for extracting water. So I told this story to my friends and teachers and I think it had a big  impact on people there. The policies are being reevaluated and the caseworkers are going through new  training. Sometimes a little story can change a life a lot. This course made me see this as a tool in a new  way. When I’ve done it, it was really new but now I can prepare ahead and think of stories that will  assist me in presenting my ideas and best illuminate them.

