The Puerto Rico Wish For the Future Technology Workshop will provide participants with an opportunity to invent the future, while learning cutting edge technology, including 3D Modeling, Digital Storytelling, Electronics, Computer Programming, and 3D Printing.

2. Wish For TheFuture
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A technology workshop
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Mission: The W4TF workshop will combine
interactive storytelling and new technology to
deliver an experiential learning experience.

3. Wish For TheFuture
How do we make the world work for 100% of
humanity in the shortest possible time through
spontaneous cooperation without ecological
damage or disadvantage to anyone?

4. Wish For TheFuture
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How do we make the world work for 100% of
humanity
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In the shortest possible time
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Through spontaneous cooperation
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without ecological damage
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or disadvantage to anyone?

5. Wish For TheFuture
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How do we make the world work for
100% of humanity
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In the shortest possible time
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Through spontaneous cooperation
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without ecological damage
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or disadvantage to anyone?

7. What is#w4tfpr
Wish For The future is a hub of inspiration,
ideas, and activities to facilitate cross-
generational learning among kids and adults aged
10 - 99. It’s aim is to foster a creative platform for
envisioning a future in which the world will work
for 100% of humanity.

8. What is#w4tfpr
Wish For The future is a hub of inspiration,
ideas, and activities to facilitate cross-
generational learning among kids and adults aged
10 - 99. It’s aim is to foster a creative platform for
envisioning a future in which the world will work
for 100% of humanity.

10. MakeaWish
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Using one of the
following categories:
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culture,
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economy,
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education,
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government,
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health,
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humanity,
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sustainability,
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or urbanization

12. CULTURE economy
Education government
Health humanity
sustainability urbanization

13. Useonly 140 Characters
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Just like Twitter, the wishes are only 140
characters
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I wish: that ________
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and then we can ________

14. 15 MinuteWish Break

15. WRITE IT DOWN!
http://www.wishforthefuture.com/

17. You’ve written your wish; Yay!

18. Granting Your Wish
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Grant a Wish:
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Tell A Story
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Conceive an Idea
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Subject areas (social studies, service leaning,
creative writing, media production, STEAM)
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The grants become a way to take a broad wish
and filter it into something that is tangible and
executable locally.

20. Conceivean idea
Brainstorm a prototype
(process, system, inventions, design, flow)

21. Invent theFuture

22. Conceivean idea
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Insight – What is your special insight behind
your wish?
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Vision - ___ will provide for everyone because
___ to ___.
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Solution Statement – What does your wish
solve?

23. Conceive an idea
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Action Plan – What things need to happen
before your wish can come true?
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Strategy – How can you help those things
happen?
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Outputs – How will we know your wish has
come true? What will it look like?

24. Tell a story
Write a story, song, play, or create a video!

25. Tell A Story

26. Tell a story
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Hero’s Journey: Choose a protagonist and use
the wish to set his/her task.
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Vision: Set the hero’s goal. What’s the context
for it? What drives him to set out and do
something?
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Opposition: Choose an antagonist (can be a
person, organization, or situation) and why it is
a problem.

27. Tell a story
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Obstacle: Create a situation that challenges
your heroine in her pursuit.
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Solution: How will your hero’s unique objective
overcome the obstacle?
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Risks: What are the pitfalls your heroine
encounters? How does she master them?
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Helpers: Who or what comes into the story to
help our hero as his ideas gain traction?

28. Tell a story
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Change: What does the accomplishment look
like?
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100 %: Step back and check if it really works
for 100% of humanity. How might this story be
continued and improved?
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Output: Present your finished story in any
format that inspires you: prose, poetry, song,
play, short film. Upload it as a Grant to its
related Wish on the WishfortheFuture.com
website.

30. Go to the website and access the Wish you’re granting.
Click on Granting Icon

31. Complete Granting Form
Emails are
collected only for
communication back
to granters from
the Time Capsule.
Express the genius
of your grant
In 250 characters
or less!

34. A Digital TimeCapsule

35. A Golden Record

36. A Golden Jumpdrive
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Objective: Preserve the wishes, the stories,
and ideas made during the #w4tfpr workshop
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Goal: Demonstrate the value of mixed media in
conveying a message for the future
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Procedure: Use a variety of electronic
recording devices to document the workshop
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Conclusion: Archive the media on the
jumpdrive and “bury” the time capsule

37. Our Story
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Use mixed media to tell the story of our
experience creating the future
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Context:
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Scenes from Puerto Rico
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Greetings from Puerto Rico
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Sounds from Puerto Rico

38. Our Wishes
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Record them in the Wish For The Future
Website
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Include them on the golden jumpdrive
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Use the activities to expand on our wishes
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Imagine what the future looks like

39. Remember
“The best way to predict the future
is to invent it!”
Alan Kay, Macintosh Designer