First Design Club

For our first session of Design Club at Casey I attended the Thursday session. Unfortunately, I felt that it did not go as smoothly as we all may have hoped, due to the fact that most of the boys were uninterested in participating in any of the activities we had set up, but rather they were interested in playing games on the computer and not really listening to what we had to say. I definitely felt that we were not engaging these kids in the activities like we'd planned. However, there were a few encouraging aspects of the Thursday session, including the two girls who seemed genuinely interested in learning about design, and specifically one boy's (the one I worked with individually) participation. Though he seemed sort of uninterested in the activities, he had a lot of previous knowledge about sustainable planning strategies and green design. Also, even though he wasn't fully engaged in the activities we were working on, he continued to work with me and assured me that he was coming back the next week. Overall, I think that there is much room for improvement in the areas of finding ways to keep kids interested and engaged, and also maybe recruiting more members.

alyssa