The Future of Food Design Challenge: Bringing the Future of Food Challenge to your students, The Why, What and How

Our Future of Food Youth Design Challenge is a great way to build your students' confidence, resilience, and general capabilities and encourages them to view problems as opportunities through a social enterprise lens. 

Young Change Agents runs national design thinking challenges for young people that focus on a specific theme and take students through empathy, ideation, validation, and prototyping. Students then explore the problem, conduct empathy interviews, and develop, validate, prototype, and pitch a solution.

This is a teacher-led program where students gain an appreciation of some of our biggest food challenges, such as production, health, accessible consumption and waste. Students explore through a design thinking approach, how to make more meaningful connections with food and develop their social enterprise to tackle a food problem they are passionate about. 

Join this 90-minute professional development workshop to bring the Future of Food Design Challenge to your classroom. It will be an interactive, immersive opportunity where you will gain an understanding of:

- Why: introduce design challenges into your school context as well as why the Future of Food is an important topic to engage our young people

- What: discuss the Young Change Agents national design challenges, the content, the resources, the process, and timeframes to run the program 

- How: introduce examples and case studies of incorporating this into your classroom and curriculum, based on learning areas and cross-curriculum priority links. How you can get your students excited by introducing the national challenge, prizes, and different ways of learning.  

- Who: possibilities of collaborating internally to co-deliver the program and what ages/class sizes suit best 

Ready to take on the challenge and support your students with creative ideas for our Future of Food Youth Design Challenge? Ready to support your students to change the world?

Design Challenge Sub Themes: 

1. Food and Health: How might we provide healthier options and better access to healthy food?
2. Connection and Joy through Food: How might we use food to create connection and joy in our lives?
3. Food Sustainability: How might we make sure there's enough healthy food for the future by making food production and consumption more sustainable?
4. Food and Technology: How might we utilise technology to encourage and enable healthy food futures for all Australians?
5. Regional and Rural Food Growth and Production: How might we improve the lives of farming families & communities?
6. Native Food & Agriculture: How might we integrate culture and traditional practices into our food systems to encourage connection to culture through sustainable production & consumption?

FOR EDUCATORS: 

You can then access the resources to run this challenge with your students over the term/semester or as an incursion with national prizes and awards for students who enter and become finalists in the challenge. Attending this event will allow you to be immersed in a Young Change Agents Youth Design Challenge which you can then deliver within your school. Young Change Agents provides the resources, facilitator guides, curriculum, and support needed to embed this program. More information here: https://youngchangeagents.com/...