Between 4.10.2023 – 13.10.2023 a group of 22 students and 4 teachers from Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg, Germany, a partner school in the Erasmus+ EduTrans21 project, held a workshop on Design Thinking in our school. 18 Romanian students and 3 teachers from Energetic Technical College Sibiu (Popa Virginia, Soare Constanța and Volosciuc Sorin Dan) also participated in this workshop, which took place every day from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Coordinated by the teachers from Germany (Struve Karen Mathilde, Brandtner Anna Katharina, Stiehm Dominik, Tobias Schwalbe), the students divided into mixed teams from the two schools, the Berufliche Schule ITECH Hamburg and the Energetic Technical College Sibiu, each realized a project using the AGILE technique intended to solve a problem identified in the school. The theme of the projects was “Make school smart and sustainable”.
Numerous innovative methods were used: the SCRUM method, AGILE games for teamwork, brainstorming, the project method, etc.
The students used the https://cloud.edutrans21.org/ platform to upload projects and created a Kanban-type board to distribute tasks. The final goal of the workshop was to create a prototype of the solution to the identified problem. For this purpose, laptops, online platforms and electronic equipment (Arduino UNO, Raspberry Pi) were used.
On the last day of the project, the teams presented their results in the form of a presentation fair to several classes of students and teachers from the Energetic Technical College Sibiu.
These collaborative working methods and the concept of Design Thinking had the role of better preparing students for the labour market and had a positive impact on the project participants.
