Empathy - We went out to do need finding to seek the problems in our school to understand the students problems. We found that students do not know about SAS’s environmental impact or efforts. We asked many questions in our need founding and took down a lot of information about environmental consciousness at SAS.

Define - We took it upon ourselves as the environmental caring people of SAS to identify the issue and present some solutions. We found that the major issue was that students of SAS don’t know about the environmental impacts and efforts that our school has/makes. We decided to help solve that issue by creating the following how might we statement: How might we raise awareness about SAS paper usage?

Ideate - We decided to come up with ways to solve this problem statement, focusing on interesting, fun, and interactive ways to engage students in our environmental interaction. We came up with several ideas, ranging from a farmers market to a video campaign. We decided to focus on a recycleball idea, a recycling bin with a basketball hoop to make recycling of paper more fun. After prototyping we realised that the idea wasn’t very feasible and decided to focus on another idea, a visual representation/social experiment about paper paper usage at SAS.

Prototype - For our prototype, we decided to make a small plastic box to represent our final idea, which is a large 8ft by 8ft by 8ft cube. We made a small representation on a 12 inch by 12 inch by 12 inch scale, filled it with small pieces of paper and took it out to get feedback. The prototype worked very well and in our process it helped us realise what changes would need to be made. For example, a rope from the top to help the opening and filling process, as well as a reinforcement for the box made of wood on all six sides.

​Test  - In the testing of the prototype, we took out our small box along with a series of unbiased questions. We interviewed over 50 students, teachers, faculty, and parents in the SAS community and got some great feedback. We have since made the changes to our prototype, and we are going to be taking the idea to the manufacturer to get a quote and to get some feedback. After that, the fundraising process will begin and we will work to making this idea a reality.