Design Challenge Network transforms teaching and learning through real-world, project-based design challenges.
Students deserve classrooms that are relevant, collaborative, and challenging. And teachers deserve the tools and techniques to make that possible.
We help educators reimagine teaching and inspire student engagement through purpose-driven learning.
Students deserve classrooms that are relevant, collaborative, and challenging. And teachers deserve the tools and techniques to make that possible.
We reimagine teaching and inspire student engagement through purpose-driven learning.
Community Changemaker Challenge
A regional event that invites school teams to present real-world solutions in a friendly, motivating competition hosted at the University of New Hampshire.
School-Based Design Challenges
Customized challenges delivered in partnership with individual schools and communities.
Teacher Workshops
One-day, in-person trainings that introduce the Design Challenge Learning model and help educators integrate it into their curriculum.
Why Design Challenge Learning?
Design Challenge Learning puts into practice what scholars in the fields of education, employment, and psychology are increasingly finding – students need content and skills, structure and agency, knowledge and a sense of purpose. Research consistently shows that students learn best when they are engaged in meaningful and appropriately challenging tasks and when their learning is connected to their lives outside of school.