The document discusses the importance of imagination, design, and creativity in solving problems, emphasizing that the design process is not linear and involves interconnected activities. It introduces a challenge to repurpose items, specifically asking to create a comprehensive list of uses for a sharpened pencil. The aim is to stimulate creative thinking and encourage innovative solutions to various challenges.

1. How Might You Solve This
Challenge
Do you have what it takes?

2. Imagining, Designing, Creating
• All these things are essential when solving
problems.
• In this Deep Dive, you will be tasked with
using your imagination, designing and creating
all kinds of solutions for simple to complex
challenges.
• Repurposing items is TASK #1.
• For example:
– Might you be able to compile the longest list
defining the possible uses of a sharpened pencil?

3. The Design Process
• Designing is not a linear process.(doesn’t go in the
same order each time.)
• It is a structure for thinking and doing.

4. Design Process for any Challenge.
• When you design and make something, you
do not think and act in separate, sequential
steps.
• Rather, you complete activities that logically
lead to additional activities--sometimes they
occur in the order and sometimes they occur
more randomly, but in almost all cases, all of
the activities occur during the engineering
design process.

6. Get Those Creative Juices Flowing!
• So, how long is your list?
• For example:
– Might you be able to compile the longest list
defining the possible uses of a sharpened pencil?