Gathering of Student Minds: The Art of Possibility

Katherine Hypolite
October 24, 2011

The Business Innovation Factory’s (BIF) Student Experience Lab is thrilled to announce a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE). On Saturday, October 29, Team BIF and RIDE will hold a day-long, student-driven workshop to focus on solving a real-world design challenge facing educators today: how to create a student experience that enables all students to thrive.

Forty students, ages 12-22 will take part in this cool, collaborative and design-driven event to share their experiences, brainstorm new ideas and create a new student experience model - one accommodates and adapts to different learning styles, methods of learning and life circumstances.

The creative energy of our diverse group of students, community members and inspiration accelerators will fuel the exercise. Leaders like Angela Blanchard, BIF-7 storyteller and CEO of neighborhood centers; Gerry Fernandez president of the multicultural foodservice and hospitality alliance, RIDE commissioner Deborah Gist and veteran BIF-6 storyteller Cassandra Lin are among the many providing inspiration to the students.

It’s an honor to gather student minds in our space and we’re looking forward to sharing outcomes and insights with our community!