CURRICULUM

EMPACTATHON®

EMPACTATHON® is an intergenerational engagement where children and youth collaborate with adults from private, public and social sector and community partners to co-design solutions to address the UN’s SDGs for a more desirable and sustainable world.

IMPACT SO FAR

4

EVENTS
330

CHILDREN
129

SOLUTIONS

CONTACT PARTNER

FIDS

The Design Thinking Framework
STEP 1
FEEL

Voices: Promoting children’s voice and agency to shape a better world.

Empowerment:Empower children to become change agents and real-world superheroes.

User-Centric:Focus on a user-centric approach to solving community problems.

Co-design: Promote intergenerational engagement to co-learn and co-create with children, fostering social leadership through collective efforts with community and corporate partners.
STEP 2
IMAGINE

What if ...

We enable children to collaborate with community stakeholders and intergenerational teams to co-design solutions for real-world problems, while providing advanced learning through design thinking and fostering social innovation and leadership?
STEP 3
DO

Program: Ranges from a single session to a 25-hour program, including workshops, mentoring, online support, and final presentations.

Intergenerational teams: Collaboration among diverse age groups, co-learning and co-designing ideas for the community.

Revolves around the 4 C’s: Creativity, Communication, Collaboration, and Critical Thinking.

Diverse issues and themes: Collaborative themes like “Tackling Global Goals Collectively” with corporate engagement (Salesforce), “Corporates Co-Designing for Business Value” (Frasers Property), and “Co-Designing for Children, with Children,teachers, and parents (Happiness by Design).