This document describes Project Breaker, an organization that aims to move learning from passive to active by focusing on design thinking, project-based learning, and entrepreneurship. It discusses Project Breaker's challenges in different topics that bring together interdisciplinary teams of youth to work on real-world problems. Case studies are provided on challenges focused on urban agriculture in Kenya, social entrepreneurship, and literacy. The document outlines Project Breaker's goal of shifting education from solitary and fixed models to collaborative and fluid models, with distributed learning networks beyond centralized schools.

1. Juliette LaMontagne |
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projectbreaker.org | @projectbreaker

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3. “School is great, being in the classroom is
great, but I wish I were out in the real world
making things happen.”
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5. Breaker:
Learning to create value
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7. Design
Thinking
Project-Based
Learning
Start-Up
Entrepreneurship
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9. Curiosity
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Creativity
Individuality

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15. “You never change things by fighting
the existing reality. To change something,
build a new model that makes the existing
model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller
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19. Build to Learn
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27. BREAKER PROJECTS + PRODUCTS
Future of
the Book
Challenge
May-August 2011
Urban
Agribusiness
Challenge
January-April 2012
Tech for Civic
Engagement
Challenge
May-August 2012
Future of
Stuff
June 2013
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O
MOBO

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29. 3 Case Studies
Kenyatta Urban Agriculture
Challenge
Aviva Manufacturing Challenge
Ross Literacy Challenge
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31. Kenyatta
Learning to
learn
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35. Aviva
Learning to
do good
effectively
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37. Desirability
Holstee
Feasibility
Thrive
Viability
that business school kid.
Metropolitan Exchange
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39. The
Future of
Stuff
New York
Detroit
San Francisco
Global Online
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41. Ross
Learning
to work
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43. Partners
and
Collaborators
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44. Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
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45. Project
Visionaries
Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
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46. Project
Visionaries
Creative
Capital
Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
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Visionaries
Creative
Capital
Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
Business
Minds
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Visionaries
Creative
Capital
Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
Business
Minds
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Content
Collaborators

49. Project
Visionaries
Business
Minds
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Space
Challenge
Interdisciplinary Team
of 18-24 year olds
Creative
Capital
Content
Collaborators

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53. Breaker:
Learning to create value
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55. From passive to active
learning
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57. From solitary
to collaborative work
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59. From fixed to fluid
curricula
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61. From centralized school
to distributed learning
networks
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