Ready, Set, Innovate!

Video: Ready, Set, Innovate 2023

Mark Your Calendar: Friday, October 25, 2024 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Ready, Set, Innovate is a day-long innovation clinic, at Oregon Tech's Klamath Falls campus, during which students will:

Learn creative team-based approaches to problem-solving
Be presented with a community challenge

Work alongside community mentors
Apply human-centered design to ideate innovative solutions

Today's world is full of messy and ambiguous problems; the better we can prepare our students to enter this world of uncertainty, the better off we are. Ready, Set, Innovate is intended to provide students with a tool to add to their toolbox so that when the time comes, they're ready to approach these problems in a very innovative way.

Quotes from Mentors, Teachers and Students:

"Innovation is what drives the economy and so much of our world in our society. It's neat to see us being able to reach high school and college students and either continue to inspire them to think in innovative ways, or for some of them, maybe light the spark." ~2022 Teacher-Mentor

"Innovation in design is a really interesting process because when you innovate, you're basically learning about what other people are doing and sometimes you want to connect with those people, you want to do those things that other people are doing. OIT is great and they say that you can achieve anything." ~ 2022 High School Participant

“I saw many of my students who are normally shy, get out of their comfort zone as the day went on. Seeing them become comfortable while working in their groups (even if they didn’t know the other members), then presenting in front of community members was awesome.” ~2023 Mentor-Teacher

For More Info Contact Hallie Neupert | 541.885.1480 | hallie.neupert@oit.edu