Thomas College staff members Luke Shorty, left, and Mike Duguay explaining the principles of Design Thinking during the themed weekend in celebration of Limestone’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics’ 30th anniversary. The event was held at the Limestone school. Submitted photo
LIMESTONE — In celebration of Limestone’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics’ 30th anniversary, Thomas College delivered a themed weekend on design thinking for about 100 high school students this past weekend at the school.
Eva Ociepka from Belfast is the student on the board as the team ideates on solutions to combat illiteracy. Submitted photo
The school has historically had special programming on special weekends, called themed weekends, to help expose their students to advanced and interesting topics. For example, the prototype for the first Windstorm Challenge occurred at a school-themed weekend in their junior Olympic-sized swimming pool, according to a news release from MacKenzie Young at Thomas College.
The weekend, delivered by Thomas College staff members Luke Shorty and Mike Duguay, was designed so that school students can now demonstrate successful knowledge and ability to qualify for Thomas College’s Design Thinking Badge.
“This is an experience that we are confident no other high school in the state is receiving,” said Shorty, Thomas College’s executive director of strategic initiatives. “Thomas College is known for being able to accelerate its students into their careers with our 3+1 program, and we thought what better place to pilot our one-day Design Thinking badge then at Maine’s only magnet school where students can accelerate their learning at their pace.”
One of the groups design its questions to get input from peers to help define and start ideating on solutions to the issue they are investigating. Students from left are Alden Hughes of Cape Elizabeth, Elliot Dooley of Blue Hill and Eva Ociepka of Belfast. Submitted photo
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