Workshop: Design Thinking, Impact Edupreneurship and Children

Name: Workshop: Design Thinking, Impact Edupreneurship and Children
Start: 2017-06-13T16:30:00Z
End: 2017-06-13T18:30:00Z
Location: Impact Hub Joburg

By Impact Hub Joburg

Tue Jun 13, 18:30 - Tue Jun 13, 20:30

Impact Hub Joburg

ABOUT

Do not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to learn with and from eduhero, Kiran Bir Sethi (Ashoka Fellow India, Global Teacher Prize Finalist, Koldyke Fellow...)!

Please Note: The 2-hour workshop includes food and a workbook.

About the event:
This workshop is open to teachers, school leaders, parents, entrepreneurs, potential collaborators and investors to meet the highly accoladed Design For Change founder, Kiran Bir Sethi (TED Speaker, Ashoka Fellow, Global Teacher Prize Finalist, Index Awardee...) and learn how to use Design Thinking to enable student-led community change. Design For Change South Africa Director, Juanita Naidoo Rea, will describe how schools and individuals can participate and outline the SA strategy - mobilising paying-it-forward (with higher and under-resourced schools) employee volunteerism, CSI and ED to train and employ youth across SA.

About the speaker:
Kiran Bir Sethi is the Founder/Director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She is also the founder of 'aProCh'; - an initiative to make our cities more child friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellow in 2008. In 2009, she received the 'Call to Conscience Award' by the King Centre at Stanford. In 2009, she founded 'Design for Change' (DFC) - the world's largest movement of change - of and by children. DFC is now in 44 countries - impacting over 2.2 million children and 65,000 Teachers. In September 2011, she won the prestigious INDEX Design to Improve Life Award' In June 2012, she was awarded the 'Rockefeller Foundation Youth Innovation Award' In February 2014, she received the Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship 2013' from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Design for Change was declared 'Lego Foundation's Reimagine Learning Challenge Champion' in November 2014. In March 2015, she was amongst the Top 10 Educators, nominated for the Global Teacher Prize - instituted by the Varkey GEMS Foundation. In June 2015, Design for Change won the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award. Kiran was conferred the Asia Game Changer 2015 Award by Asia Society in October 2015. In February 2017 she was conferred the “Excellence in Instructional Leadership” Award at NDTV’s National Education Awards. She has also been appointed as Ambassador, Vital Voices, in February 2017.