Students from Systems Analysis programs will provide services to local businesses in their neighborhoods to gain hands-on experience. [Prototype 1] Students will visit factories and companies to understand their daily routines and operations firsthand. Seeing real workplaces can help students choose their future careers. [Prototype 2] Two prototypes were tested: having students assist local businesses to apply their classroom learning, and arranging visits for students to companies to observe work environments and processes. Feedback was positive about giving students practical experience outside the classroom.

1. Design Thinking Action Lab, 2013 July
By Leticia Britos Cavagnaro, Stanford University
Prototyping and Testing
Lucimara de Almeida
Model to approximate the theory
school of market practices

2. Selected Ideas
Create services to
the population
related to the
disciplines given to
students
Prototype 1 Most disruptive: Students of
Systems Analysis will service the
neighborhoods, helping local businesses
(small entrepreneurs) as bakeries, local
stores, bookstores, creating systems of
budgetary controls, accounting, inventory,
from the need and they can practice
through small projects the disciplines
classroom.

3. Prototype 1
local businesses
Students
Solution to help
Teacher:
guidance and
monitoring

4. Test
Students:
• dissemination of learning by design, the opportunity to learn hands-on, exploring
a problem
• the educational experience can be much more effective if it occurs from practical
activities, with experience and research
Teachers:
• Experience, research and problem solving are not only 'cool stuff' to have in the
classroom, but also outside the classroom
• students are better prepared to understand a theory or a principle when
exploring
Entrepreneurs:
• It is a way to bring the real world into the classroom and provide gains to the
population. Work more with the reality of the world with these tasks that
students can get the ‘hands on’.

5. Test
Divide students into teams with
specific activities and can exchange
roles in each project
How stakeholders from communities
(shops, bakeries, etc.) can register
for access to the service of
students?
Do sessions of lessons learned
at the end of each completed
project to share experiences
The theoretical concepts
allies practices

6. Selected Ideas
Visits to factories
Prototype 2 Favorite idea: Visit factories and
companies gives the student the feeling
of being inserted in the workplace. See
how things happen for a day, is one of the
exercises that can be up and expect a
decision when choosing career.

7. Prototype 2
Offices, industries
Studentsknow …
• the routine
• the company's
activities
• processes
• working methods
• labor standards
• the division of
labor

8. Test
Students:
• opportunity to meet the routine of business
• contact with professionals helps direct job expectations
Teachers:
• a way of bringing students from the labor market
Professionals of industry:
• we wish that one day these students are working with us, then it is in our interest
to show them how we organize and work

9. Test
Should Companies contact
the university or the opposti
to facilitate visits?
Combine the roles of
professionals in companies with
the subjects they must master to
perform work
Students could make
periodic visits and not only
once
Students are motivated to
visit companies and
attend the activities
happening in real time