While I am the Brand Strategist in Tribe Innovation, the sprint on 11/14 was my first one! I had so much fun because everyone was willing to get involved and come up with crazy ideas. It was such a great idea to have someone who works with sustainability on campus come to preface the sprint in order to get us into the right mindset and to educate us on the current initiatives. I expected the prompt to be a more specific question within the scope of sustainability on campus, but it simply had to do with improving awareness and action in sustainability through curriculum and other on-campus means. Because the topic was so broad, I think it was hard at first to come up with ideas. It was helpful to glance at the whiteboard every so often when I began to run low on ideas to spark inspiration from someone else’s.
I was busy taking photos and videos for a portion of the sprint, so whenever I came back to my team I acted as a third innovation sprint facilitator as I tried to get them back on track and encourage a burst of creativity in the last few minutes. My team came up with some fun and interesting thoughts, but at the end of the ideation process, after multi-voting, we still had so many disparate ideas. It was a challenge to combine the ideas into one full concept. Once we did, we dove into prototyping creating a 3D model of our concept. Our idea was to have a W&M eco-house located in Matoaka woods. Students would elect to live there for a year and would get a coll-300 credit as well as 2 mandatory classes on sustainability and the eco-house (1 semester each). The students living in the house would utilize its renewable energy, community garden, and would attend a 3-day hiking trip during fall break. Our 3D prototype was a mock-up of the ecohouse, depicting the solar panels, community garden, and proximity to nature.
Ps. I brought a plus 1:
