LEARNING LAUNCH

Challenge

I am a college student and was a member of my college organization’s research and

development team, me and my other members were working to make a mentoring event, which

was a bonding event for the new members of the organization with their mentors. This event

includes games, and lots of moving from one place to another (classroom). We had to create

events with lots of games, lots of thinking, and lots of group activity. We only had 2 months to

prepare each event.

Selection

Me and my team were doing a visualization tool, but it wasn’t that effective to create game

designs, so we change it into launch tool. So, with launching tool we made an experiment to

test our game ideas.

Application

First, we find what are the goals for this event, then we brainstormed and gather all of our ideas

into writings, then we selected the ones that suits out theme the most. We chose 5 games. After

we chose our games, we tested it within our team. We played it and see if it’s fun and bonding

enough for the mentor and mentees, if we think there’s something lacking out, we change the

game little bit to adjust our needs. We went through a whole day only to brainstormed and

tested out the games.

The second learning launch, we thought about how we would mobilize the mentor and mentees.

We made a building map, and then we chose which classrooms should we use for the games.

After that we made directions from the main classroom to each classroom, and the directions

to mobilize from classroom 1 to classroom 2 or from classroom 2 to classroom 4, et cetera.

Also, we need to consider the time between the mobilization. We only had 3 hours for the event

so we need to make the most of our time and not waste our time on mobilization. After all of

that, we tested it with time. We spent a whole day just to maximize the mobilization.

Insight

By applying the learning launch tool, our team could design games that meet our needs, and it

was carried out pretty well. We made several plans, in case the main plan won’t work out. But

turns out it went smoothly. If we didn’t use the learning launch tool, I don’t think the result

would be that smooth. Learning launch helped us to anticipate bad things that could happen at

the event.

Approach

Our team had gone through several design thinking tools and figured out that it wasn’t effective

enough to prepare for the event, and finally we tried the learning launch and that went well. As

previously mentioned, our team needs to review the goals for our event, and after that we could

brainstorm ideas for the games. Will definitely use the learning launch tool for our next project.

