The IDEA Lab Leadership Team hosted #IDEAfestival2017 on October 28.  The IDEA Lab serves as a maker space for students and faculty to use to study, tinker, meet together and to discover ideas. Watch the video by clicking below or you may click here.

The Executive Director of TR Hoover Community Center and Senior Shreya Gunuluka presented to the students on what it's like to live in a food desert. Everyone was encouraged to think about how innovation can improve our community, and the topic of conversation focused on the food-desert problem in Dallas and many other urban-areas. 

Ms. Katie Krummeck, Director of the Design Innovation Gymnasium at SMU, lead students and faculty in some of her renowned human-centered design workshops. With this training, Hockaday students hope to gain an understanding of the root cause of this food desert issue, recognize the lack of fresh groceries in many households, and in turn, design impactful solutions to solve the problem. 

As a part of the design thinking process—a process that the IDEA festival utilized throughout—attendees were encouraged to ask questions that begin with the words, HOW MIGHT WE? How might we find a solution and make things better? Attendees also participated in a food-assembly line to package snack-bags to be delivered to the children at TR Hoover Community Center.