Project Ignite – Teachers’ Guide

Hi teachers,

Welcome to Project Ignite! In order for us to be successful, we would like your help in our
sessions to guide your students. You know your students best so we need you!

You will mostly be taking up the role of a mentor for 10 students. Below is our agenda and
what we would need your help with.

Day 1
Time Programme
9.00am to 9.30am Introduction and icebreaking
9.30am to 10.30am Design Thinking 101
 Students will go through
the design thinking process
10.30am to 11.00am Morning break
11.00am to 11.30am Computational Thinking 101
 Students will learn basic
computing principles
11.30am to 1.30pm Introduction to Arduino
 Students will learn how to
use Arduino
1.30pm to 2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm to 2.30pm Empathize, Define and Ideate
 Students will go through
the design thinking process
2.30pm to 3.00pm Share
3.00pm to 3.30pm Prototype: Plan
 Students will plan their
prototypes
We need you to…
 Join in and get to know us
 Participate in the activity
along with your students
 Guide your students in
case they have any
questions
 Guide your students in
case they have any
questions
 Mentor and advise 2
groups
 Give feedback to your
students
 Mentor and advise 2
groups

Day 2
Time Programme We need you to…
9.00am to 9.30am Refresher
9.30am to 10.00am Presentation 101
 Students will be given basic
presentation guidelines
10.00am to 1.30pm Prototype 2: Build  Mentor and advise 2
(Morning break at 10.00am) groups
 Students will build projects
1.30pm to 2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm to 3.00pm Prototype Fair  Evaluate projects
 Students will present their
projects
3.00pm to 3.30pm Closing and photos