Design Thinking Fellowship for Faculty at Fab Lab. Apply by Friday, March 1

February 29, 2024 / Faculty/Staff Highlights

The NOVA Fab Lab is recruiting for its next cohort of Design Thinking Fellows! This NSF-sponsored program is for faculty members interested in integrating design thinking into their instruction. Fellows selected for the program will receive a $3,000 stipend in the form of a supplemental work assignment (SWA). Faculty from all campuses and disciplines are encouraged to apply here!

See the flyer below for program details and dates. The application timeline is very short — apply by tomorrow!

Flyer with green band at top: NOVA logo in gold, "Fab Lab" in white text Left column: Header (green): Design Thinking Fellowship Northern Virginia Community College is recruiting for their third cohort of Design Thinking Fellows! This final chapter of our National Science Foundation (NSF)–sponsored program is exclusively for NOVA faculty interested in learning about and implementing design thinking into their curriculum. Complex problems requires innovative and creative solutions. Design thinking is the key to challenge assumptions and approach problem solving in a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and non-linear way. Apply by March 1, 2024, at fellowship dot novastem dot us forward slash MBDapply Fellows will: - Complete two days of design thinking workshops (March 11 and April 2 from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm) - Observe experts teaching a two-hour design thinking workshop (April 12 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm) - Teach a design thinking workshop (May 23 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm) - Provide design thinking mentorship to NOVA students (May 31, June 7, & June 14 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm) - Create and implement a design thinking exercise NOVA logo, We Do STEM logo Right column: Stock photo: two students working on a project at a table $3,000 fellowship stipend NSF logo Program funded by the National Science Foundation NSF DUE: #2055324 PI: Josh Labrie, Director of NOVA SySTEMic, jlabrie at nvcc dot edu Co-PI: Richard Sewell, NOVA Fab Lab Coordinator, rsewell at nvcc dot edu Co-PI: M. Hamadi Belghith, mbelghith at nvcc dot edu

Submitted by: 
Chris Russell, IET Project Manager, CRussell@nvcc.edu