Community Leaders

Developing Impactful Solutions To Challenge In Your Community

Themes:

Design ThinkingInnovationLeadership

Length:

Half DayOne DayOne HourTwo Hours

About The Program

The Community Leaders Program is a hands-on leadership and innovation experience that challenges students to explore how they can create positive change within their school or local community. Through interactive workshops and collaborative challenges, students will investigate real-world issues, understand the people affected by them and develop creative initiatives designed to make a meaningful impact.

Designed to build confidence in leadership, creativity and problem-solving, the program takes students through a fast-paced design thinking process as they identify a challenge, explore the needs of their community and develop an innovative solution. Along the way, students will strengthen their communication, teamwork and critical thinking skills while discovering how young people can use leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation to turn ideas into action.

Workshop Themes Include:

Community Challenges & Leadership Students explore challenges facing their school or local community and consider the role young people can play in creating positive change.
Design Thinking & User-Centred Solutions Students investigate who is impacted by their chosen challenge and use personas, empathy and design thinking activities to better understand their needs.
Innovation & Local Impact Students explore inspiring ideas and initiatives before developing their own creative solution tailored to their community and audience.
Developing & Pitching Ideas Students bring their initiative to life by outlining how it would work, who it would support and the impact it could create before pitching their concept to peers and facilitators.

Schools can choose a specific community challenge, school priority or theme for students to explore, otherwise students can identify an issue they are passionate about and develop their own initiative to address it.

Program Outcomes:

By the end of the program, students will:

Develop confidence in leadership, collaboration and communication
Strengthen design thinking, creativity and problem-solving skills
Build empathy and a stronger understanding of community needs
Explore how young people can create meaningful change through leadership and innovation
Create and pitch an original initiative designed to make a positive impact in their school or community

Every program can be tailored to suit the specific goals and expected outcomes of your classroom. Whether you are preparing students for leadership roles, assessment tasks, competitions, project-based learning, showcases or curriculum outcomes, our team can adapt the experience to align with your students, learning objectives and school priorities.

Age Group

This program has been designed for Primary & High School students and is recommended specifically for Grade 5-10 students.

Program Length

This program can be adapted in length to run for one hour, two hours, a half day, or a full day in length.

Longer programs allow students to further develop their skills and dive deeper as they bring their ideas to life. Shorter programs are great as a taster experience for students touching lightly on the key topics.

Topics Covered

In this program we will be covering the following topics:

Curriculum Alignment Opportunities

This program compliments the following content descriptors in the Australian Curriculum:

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Case Studies

The Community Leaders program is a popular program with schools looking to provide students with an opportunity to explore how technology can be used for good in their local community.

Examples of how schools have utilised this program in the past include:

Nexus International School | Year 10: A half day workshop for Year 10 students to get them thinking about initiatives they can lead to influence change in their local community.

Brisbane South State Secondary College | Year 7-9: A half day selection workshop for student leaders to help them develop ideas and initiatives they wish to implement in their local community as student leaders.

Harrisdale Senior High School | Year 8 & 9: A two hour workshop for gifted and talented students to help them develop their skills in design thinking, leadership, and innovation.

We understand that every school and every class is different. That is why our team of experienced facilitators work with every client to tailor each program to their context.

Classroom Resources

If this program has caught your eye, you might also be interested in some of our classroom resources. These resources have been designed by our team of innovative educators to help you deliver inspiring and engaging learning experiences in your classroom. Resources related to this program include:

Design Thinking Resource Bundle: A resource bundle with case studies, activities, and templates to help you infuse your classes with design thinking. Click here to find out more.

Youth Advisory Resource Bundle: A resource bundle with case studies, activities, and templates to help you get authentic thoughts and ideas from your young people. Click here to find out more.

Global Leader Scenario Briefs: A selection of stimulus materials that challenge students to develop impactful solutions in response to a Sustainable Development Goal focused challenge around the world. Click here to find out more.

The Future Of Food Unit Of Work: A 10 lesson unit of work that will see students exploring the technologies changing the way we produce, prepare, and consume food. Click here to find out more.

Other Programs

If you're looking to help students in your community develop their skills in design thinking and community leadership, we'd also recommend checking out the following programs:

City Of The Future: The City Of The Future program involves students working together in teams to revamp sections of their city, adding new innovations, sustainable solutions, and urban design as they explore the technologies changing how we live. Click here to find out more.

Community Creators: Our Community Creators program will see students taking a design thinking approach to create a simple but effective technological solution to solve the a challenge students are passionate about in their local community. Click here to find out more.

Designed Spaces: The Designed Spaces Program has been created to give students the opportunity to use design thinking and user-centered design frameworks in order to design a space of the future on their school campus or in their local community. Click here to find out more.

To explore our full range of workshop programs, make sure to check out our program library by heading to: www.bopindustries.com/programs

About BOP Industries

BOP Industries is an Australian education company on a mission to inspire the next generation of young innovators.

Run by a passionate team of innovative educators, we work with government, industry, and schools to deliver workshops, masterclasses, professional development, and competitions designed to help inspire and engage primary and high school students around the world. Since beginning our work in the education space in 2018, we have worked with over 100,000 students in 36 cities across Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, China, and North America. To find out more about BOP and the schools we work with, head to: www.bopindustries.com/about-us

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