2025-08-25 PL-INT-2025-011344 Pacific International Center for High Technology Research (PICHTR) - Category PL.3

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build, until now. The kickoff of the Design Intelligence Lab and its first project in September 2024 is funded by the Harold KL Castle Foundation and the Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation. 7. Design for Civic Leadership 5th Annual, for middle and high school student government leaders. Created in honor of the late Iris Okawa, Public Schools of Hawaii Foundation (PSHF) trustee who believed in creating the next generation of young civic leaders. In partnership with PSHF and the DOE's Student Government Leadership program, student government leaders from public middle and high schools throughout the State of Hawaii gather for an annual bootcamp in September to learn and apply Design Thinking to challenges facing their peers. 8. Annual Design Thinking Hawaii Summer Bootcamp for the Community.Thirteen (13) bootcamp since 2011. Each summer since 2011, public and private school educators, students, government employees, private industry, and non-profits gather for two days to learn, apply, and practice the five steps in human-centered design also known as Design Thinking. Design Thinking has become a movement in Hawaii over the years with thousands trained from students to industry executives to government leaders. More than 3K+teachers trained, over 10K+ have attended a workshop or bootcamp, and over 100K+ students have been exposed to Design Thinking since 2011. a. Client: Department of Health, Developmental Disabilities Division. Thirty design teams of educators, students, and community stakeholders were challenged to develop solutions to improve employment rates for individuals with developmental disabilities.June 2016. 9. DOT and Waipahu High Al Traffic Study, March to June 2023. Sponsored by NEC America in partnership with Hawaii Dept of Transportation, and 28 high school juniors at Waipahu High School's IT Academy. Challenge: Improve pedestrian safety at Waipahu High School using a human centered design process and next generation Al systems to detect, predict, and prevent accidents. Students in Cindy Takara's period 3 learned how Al systems are trained, and the power of having real-time counts of vehicles, pedestrians, and potential near misses during 10 classes. Students brainstormed questions they would like answered from the system's large amount of data, and used those questions and the Design Thinking process to generate solutions and prototypes they presented to a cross section of industry, government, and community stakeholders. The workforce development question we're answering is "how do we create the careers of the future" by giving students a real-world challenge by a real client, Hawaii Dept of Transportation Highways and Waipahu High School, applying next generation innovations like Artificial Intelligence (Al) by a global innovator, NEC America. Project Video. 10. Design for Young Pacific Leaders (YPL) Festpac,June 2024. Four Design Thinking and Al sessions were designed and facilitated for the YPL cohort of young leaders representing 20+ Pacific Island nations. The design challenge focused on sustainability and the impacts of climate change on their island nations. These young leaders were trained in Design Thinking but also in the use of Generative Al to support and enhance the process, including the use of text to image generators to prototype and visualize their solutions.