This document outlines Project Perigee, which aims to equip students with skills for future careers through hands-on learning experiences. The project goals are to develop students' critical thinking, problem solving, and environmental stewardship abilities. It also seeks to create lifelong learners prepared to face unknown challenges through knowledge and analysis. The document lists the project's aims of creating engaged students and discusses goals related to thinking skills, learning, and environmental impact. It introduces the design team and course information.

1. Design Challenge 2
Project Perigee
The University of Texas at Brownsville
EDCI 7334 Curriculum Development
Dr. Laura Jewett

2. Group One
Perigee
Project Perigee
As the role of technology
in the workplace
continues to grow it is
imperative that students
are equipped for the
workplace of tomorrow.

3. Project Perigee
Aims
Goals
Summary
Design Team

4. Project Perigee
Aims
• create a new generation of engaged, capable
students with skills and abilities to think critically,
analyze and problem solve.
• foster in students a passion for meeting the
challenges of the unkown equipped with a critical
mind and hunger for knowledge.
• develop a discerning mentality toward
environmental care, preservation and long term
impact of actions

5. Project Perigee
Goals
• become trained and equipped to think, analyze
and predict the needs of future engagements.
• become life-long learners who seek understanding
in all areas of life and do not settle for less than
their best.
• have a healthy awareness of the environment and
desire to positively impact future generations
with their choices and actions today.

6. Project Perigee will create classroom experiences where students will ...
Objectives
b
• be prepared to apply
his/her knowledge to
the development of
solutions for the
workplace and
society.
• be challenged to seek
out answers to
problems and
questions they face
from reliable, valid
sources of
information and to
develop actionable
plans as a response.
• be prepared to
engage in
problem
solving while
maintaining
ethics, equality
and a
humanistic
approach to
environmental
conservation.
Project Perigee

7. Group One
• Damon Ing
• Nicole Benton
• Noemi Garcia
• Tommy Gobber
• Angelica Reyes
Dr. Laura Jewett
Design Challenge 2
Fall 2014
Project Perigee