Duration: 4 days, 3 nights

Dates: July 7-13

Cost: $1600

Registration Deadline: March, 1st 2021

This bi-annual event brings together highly innovative educators, scholars, designers, and community leaders for a multi-day symposium. This year’s program, hosted in Trinidad, focuses on Nobis Project’s belief that all community engagement experiences (local, domestic, or global) require careful preparation and ongoing critical reflection.

During the 2020 Think Tank, participants will use Design Thinking to collaboratively develop ethical community engagement materials and strategies for schools, educators and parents to use before and after community engagement experiences. Topic areas may include: strategies for unpacking the Nobis Big Ideas; educator guide (pre and post experience exercises); and parent guide (pre and post experience exercises). As Nobis Project expands our services to offer programs for student groups, these materials will support our partnering schools in better preparing students for community engagement experiences by preparing educators and parents to introduce the Nobis Big Ideas to students before and reinforcing them after excursions.

Think Tank participants will each have the chance to share about the challenges and successes in their fields:

Educators will share project examples from their classrooms.

Academic scholars will share about new research and trends in their fields.

Community leaders will share about the problems their communities face and the impact of the solution initiatives they are involved in.

By hosting our Think Tank in Trinidad we are able to model ethical community engagement, invite local community partners, and offer an immersion experience to aid in our Design Thinking process.