A young graduate is unsure of her career path after graduating. The document proposes two prototypes to help students identify their true potential and make informed career decisions: 1. A comic book superhero "Career Torch Bearer" who helps children through storytelling by showing how others found careers matching their skills and interests. 2. "Happy Hours" which sets aside time weekly for students aged 10-16 to explore activities in different fields through hands-on experiences to discover their strengths.

1. Problem Statement
" A young graduate-who is just out of school, has taken up a career different from what
she has studied, students needs a way to realise her true potential and take the most
suited career decision, because students are quite clueless about their potential"

2. PROTOTYPING

3. Protoype 1
Solution
Career Torch Bearer
Comic book with a Superhero, fictional character
“Career Torch Bearer” who dons different career
hats and helps save children from making incorrect
career moves
This comic book is aimed at 8-12 year old students.
These are the formative years which will shape up
their careers.
In India, a lotof emphasis is laid on marks and
percentages, rather than skill and personality
development
The aim is to make the students realise through
storytelling how students in similar situations
reacted and took their career decisions. The comic
also aims at pushing students to take up things
they enjoy doing as careers, and realise their true
potential
Character Sketch:
Career Torch Bearer
Powers:
Connections, Knowledge, Listenin
g
By Listening and understanding the
students/children he shares his
Knowledge with them and uses his
Connections to get them to the
right career
Character Sketch:
Priti
Passing school
Confused and disheartened, Priti
doesn’t know how to go ahead

4. I have just got
65% in my SSC
exams, how will
I get admission
in a good
college!
Priti goes with her friend to take
admission and finds that she is not able to
qualify in any of the options available
Career Torch Bearer appears to her
rescue! He Listens to her and
understands what she would like to
do
Career Torch Bearer gives her first
option about Apparel Design, tells her
what she can do in that field, however
it overwhelms her
Career Torch Bearer gives her
another option, of cooking yummy
food and Priti realises that she would
just love it!
CTB giver her all the
info about the right
college to take
Ten years
later, Priti is
a successful
Chef
Protoype 1

5. Protoype 2
Solution
Happy Hours
This activity is aimed at children from 10-16 yrs of
age.
Keeping aside a couple of hours every week which
allows students to develop skills in areas they are
interested in and they can further develop as
careers in later years
Children are taken to an environment which is
equipped with resources from different fields
Children are left free to explore any activity.
This will help them realise where their true
potential lies

6. 1
“Happy Hours” environment equipped with
resources for skill development in various fields like
reading books, cooking, film and video, pottery,
sports, etc
2
Students pursuing their activity of interest

7. 3
Counselors observing students and taking notes in
the activity sheet
A child doing pottery
4
Counselors talking to children listening to him/her
why she spent so much time doing that particular
activity, showing them their activity sheet

8. 5
Child with access to all the information to pottery
on how he can further develop his skills and
convert into a career path

9. FEEDBACK

10. Feedback 1
What worked What could be improved
IdeasQuestions
• Liked the comic book
character a lot,
thought will make a
difference
• The execution of Happy Hours
would be very tricky
• Targeting the correct age group
is very critical

11. Feedback 2
What worked What could be improved
IdeasQuestions
• Interactive Comic
book
• Comic book can be
combined with
counseling sessions
• Happy Hours, will
definitely impact
• Will help them open
up more

12. REFLECTION

13. What I learned by testing the prototype?
What I would do next
• I learnt that prototyping helps me look at things I may have
overlooked in the ideation process
• It also helps me test the feasibility of the idea
• Modifications, improvements can be factored in quite early and
will help me save time
• I would try to make the comic book interactive, really found it
very useful suggestion
• And also talk to schools and see if they are receptive about the
Happy Hours idea
• Talk to more students of all age groups, and still build on these
ideas and refine them further
• After refining I would again test it