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I wanted to develop a learning experience that would bring someone from a place of feeling less powerful to feeling more powerful and capable

Emer Beamer

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Description

The Design-a-thon Works foundation envisions a world where children are engaged in co-designing their future world and have the skills to prosper in it. This vision is achieved by spreading a unique educational method that places the child at its heart and is based around design thinking and children's natural interest in technology. The Design-a-thon method asks children aged from 8 to 12 to help shape a better world by finding solutions to real-world problems.

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Website

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Key Figures

• Founded in 2014
• By 2023 the target is to train 5,500 teachers and 1 million children as global change makers.

Key points of the interview

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• Children are already really concerned about climate change
• Design-a-thon is relying on the United Nations SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals)
• A unique learning methodology
• Solutions designed by children have a real impact on our daily life
• Can climate education be universal?
• Which scale is the most impactful?