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Design Education

Design Education from Ryan Pugh

Design Education

While participating in the Industrial Design Outreach (IDO) program at SFSU, I mentored high school students in the principles of design, helped to develop curriculum, and led workshops on shop and tool safety. From 2007 to 2008 I, along with other IDO mentors, helped students from Thurgood Marshall High School in San Francisco develop a community bench which was selected for a limited exhibition in San Francisco's DeYoung Museum. During the course of this project, I formalized the curriculum based on STEM standards in compliance with the State of California's published educational curriculum standards as part of my graduation thesis. My curriculum work assisted in the the Community Bench Project receiving a Core 77 award in 2012.

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The Community Bench, a Core 77 award winning project, was a collaborative effort between Industrial Design Outreach (iDO) mentors and Thurgood Marshall High School students. All panels were hand crafted by the high school students under the guidance of iDO mentors. This final bench was exhibited at the "Young @ Art" show in San Francisco's DeYoung Museum in May 2008 and now resides in the Mayor's "war room" in San Francisco's City Hall.

Success! - Industrial Design Outreach made the paper for our community bench project with Thurgood Marshall High School. Here's the link to the article for all those interested. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/18/MNBNV2ONP.DTL

IDO community bench - The Community Bench, seen here "in process", was a collaborative effort between Industrial Design Outreach mentors and Thurgood Marshall High School students. All panels were hand crafted by the high school students. After being exhibited in San Francisco's DeYoung Museum in May 2008, the bench was donated to the school as a lasting memory of these student's work.