Entrepreneurship Project #1:
Signs for Tech Building Classrooms
The Request:
The MakerSpace has been asked to create exterior signage for RHS classrooms T3 and T9. Your jobs will be to design an appropriate sign for the class, get your design approved by the customer (the classroom teachers for those rooms), fabricate the signs, work with the customer to complete the customer service survey, and create a short video or PowerPoint presentation to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of your experience.
The Design:
Interview the customer: What is it they want? What size? Does the customer have any design ideas? Take quality notes!
Create at least 3 different designs to show the customer: Create a list of required materials and approximate overall cost for each design. Have some type of visual (image, draft, 3D model, etc.) that you can show to the customer. Listen to the customer’s feedback. Will one of your initial designs work, or is it back to the drawing board? If one of the designs is approved, supply the customer with the required list of materials to be purchased. Working with the fabrication team, come up with a project management timeline. Confirm with the customer that this timeline will work for them.
The Fabrication:
Working with the Design team, create a project management timeline. Ensure that you will have the supplies, manpower, technology, and time to complete the project with the bounds of your timeline. Ensure that all members of your group have completed all of the required tool safety clearances to be able to complete the project on time.
Fabricate the design. If problems arise, work with the design team to adapt the initial designs to allow completion of the product without going over budget or over time. Ask for help if you need it!
Customer Satisfaction:
The design team has now become the customer service team. While to project is being fabricated, create a personalized customer satisfaction survey for this project. Upon completion and delivery of the product, give the customer the survey and process the results for use in the project summation presentation .
Report Out:
Once the project is complete, work can begin on the project presentation. Follow this link to see examples of previous groups’ presentations. Maker sure that your presentation is accurate and professional. Make sure you include all of the information provided on the presentation rubric. After the design team has completed the customer satisfaction survey, make sure to include the results in your presentation. Make sure to have fun with your presentation, but keep it classroom appropriate.
Entrepreneurship Project #2:
Science Lab Table Lift
The Request:
The RUHS custodial staff has asked the MakerSpace to innovate a way to lift the heavy science lab slab tables. Currently it takes 3 custodians to lift the table and put rolling platforms under each wheel. Can you create a structure that can be used with the existing “teacher table lift” that will allow it to be used with the slate science lab tables? Your jobs will be to design an appropriate lifting device, get your design approved by the customer (the RUHS custodial staff), fabricate the design, work with the customer to complete the customer satisfaction survey, and create a short video or PowerPoint to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of your project.
The Design:
Interview the customer: What is it they want? What are the design goals and constraints? Does the customer have any design ideas? Take quality notes!
Create at least 3 different designs to show the customer: Create a list of required materials and approximate overall cost for each design. Have some type of visual (image, draft, 3D model, etc.) that you can show to the customer. Listen to the customer’s feedback. Will one of your initial designs work, or is it back to the drawing board? If one of the designs is approved, supply the customer with the required list of materials to be purchased. Working with the fabrication team, come up with a project management timeline. Confirm with the customer that this timeline will work for them.
The Fabrication:
Working with the Design team, create a project management timeline. Ensure that you will have the supplies, manpower, technology, and time to complete the project with the bounds of your timeline. Ensure that all members of your group have completed all of the required tool safety clearances to be able to complete the project on time.
Fabricate the design. If problems arise, work with the design team to adapt the initial designs to allow completion of the product without going over budget or over time. Ask for help if you need it!
Customer Satisfaction:
The design team has now become the customer service team. While to project is being fabricated, create a personalized customer satisfaction survey for this project. Upon completion and delivery of the product, give the customer the survey and process the results for use in the project summation presentation .
Report Out:
Once the project is complete, work can begin on the project presentation. Follow this link to see examples of previous groups’ presentations. Maker sure that your presentation is accurate and professional. Make sure you include all of the information provided on the presentation rubric. After the design team has completed the customer satisfaction survey, make sure to include the results in your presentation. Make sure to have fun with your presentation, but keep it classroom appropriate.
As this project has already been completed in the MakerSpace,
please click here to see the final project results!
The RUHS Custodians have reported that this invention not only decreases the time it takes to move the tables for summer floor waxing, it also requires only 1/3 or the manpower and is MUCH safer than the former method of moving the tables. EXCELLENT DESIGN!
Entrepreneurship Project #3:
Football Senior Night Sashes
The Request:
The UHS Administrative Secretary, Ms. Claudia has asked that we make sashed for the football players to wear during the halftime celebration on senior night. For this project, you will need to design a sash similar to the example provided, get your design approved by the customer (Ms. Claudia), supply the customer with a list of materials, fabricate the signs, work with the customer to complete the customer service survey, and create a short video or PowerPoint presentation to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of your experience.
The Design:
Interview the customer: What is it they want? What size? Does the customer have any design ideas? Take quality notes!
Create at least 3 different designs to show the customer: Create a list of required materials and approximate overall cost for each design. Have some type of visual (image, draft, 3D model, etc.) that you can show to the customer. Listen to the customers feedback. Will one of your initial designs work, or is it back to the drawing board? If one of the designs is approved, supply the customer with the required list of materials to be purchased. Working with the fabrication team, come up with a project management timeline. Confirm with the customer that this timeline will work for them.
The Fabrication:
Working with the Design team, create a project management timeline. Ensure that you will have the supplies, manpower, technology, and time to complete the project with the bounds of your timeline. Ensure that all members of your group have completed all of the required tool safety clearances to be able to complete the project on time.
Fabricate the design. If problems arise, work with the design team to adapt the initial designs to allow completion of the product without going over budget or over time. Ask for help if you need it!
Customer Satisfaction:
The design team has now become the customer service team. While to project is being fabricated, create a personalized customer satisfaction survey for this project. Upon completion and delivery of the product, give the customer the survey and process the results for use in the project summation presentation .
Report Out:
Once the project is complete, work can begin on the project presentation. Follow this link to see examples of previous groups’ presentations. Maker sure that your presentation is accurate and professional. Make sure you include all of the information provided on the presentation rubric. After the design team has completed the customer satisfaction survey, make sure to include the results in your presentation. Make sure to have fun with your presentation, but keep it classroom appropriate.
This project has already been completed in the MakerSpace, but provides a great example of the type of project the Engineering and Entrepreneurship students make be asked to complete.
This was the example project that was used to create an example Unit Plan for this course. Please click here to see the formal Unit Plan.
As this project has already been completed in the MakerSpace, please click here to see the final project results!
Entrepreneurship Project #4:
3d Printed Marker clips for math desks
The Request:
Mr. Gribble is trying to convert the desktops in his math classroom in white boards for student work! He has already applied the whiteboard material to the desk tops, but now would like a way of affixing a whiteboard marker to the frame of the desk. He would like the maker to be able to clip in sturdily, but be easily removable. You jobs will be to design an appropriate sign for the class, get your design approved by the customer (the classroom teachers for those rooms), fabricate the signs, work with the customer to complete the customer service survey, and create a short video or PowerPoint presentation to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of your experience.
The Design:
Interview the customer: What is it they want? What size? Does the customer have any design ideas? Take quality notes!
Create at least 3 different designs to show the customer: Create a list of required materials and approximate overall cost for each design. Have some type of visual (image, draft, 3D model, etc.) that you can show to the customer. Listen to the customers feedback. Will one of your initial designs work, or is it back to the drawing board? If one of the designs is approved, supply the customer with the required list of materials to be purchased. Working with the fabrication team, come up with a project management timeline. Confirm with the customer that this timeline will work for them.
The Fabrication:
Working with the Design team, create a project management timeline. Ensure that you will have the supplies, manpower, technology, and time to complete the project with the bounds of your timeline. Ensure that all members of your group have completed all of the required tool safety clearances to be able to complete the project on time.
Fabricate the design. If problems arise, work with the design team to adapt the initial designs to allow completion of the product without going over budget or over time. Ask for help if you need it!
Customer Satisfaction:
The design team has now become the customer service team. While to project is being fabricated, create a personalized customer satisfaction survey for this project. Upon completion and delivery of the product, give the customer the survey and process the results for use in the project summation presentation .
Report Out:
Once the project is complete, work can begin on the project presentation. Follow this link to see examples of previous groups’ presentations. Maker sure that your presentation is accurate and professional. Make sure you include all of the information provided on the presentation rubric. After the design team has completed the customer satisfaction survey, make sure to include the results in your presentation. Make sure to have fun with your presentation, but keep it classroom appropriate.