July 16 - Heavy Lifting

At 9 am we began in one of the hotels conference rooms. The students divided up into 3 broad teams and began to mix thoughts and ideas working toward a cohesive whole. The last part of the morning was used for a "brain banger" session hashing out and vetting ideas.

After lunch the groups reformed and continued working of refining their concepts to present again at 3:30 for a time of class feedback and more brain bangers. The process brings to the surface ideas that are working in the context of the project and things that may not work as well. The students then get to defend and hash out the ideas looking for what is the overall best answer for the client and the parameters of the project.

Class officially broke up at 5, but several students stayed behind to work with the professors on aspects that they were passionate about. Class will begin again tomorrow at 9.