Food literally makes up who you are. This is nothing profound, but it’s surprising how easy it can be to forget. Thankfully, there are people at the University of Calgary who have developed a course program to remind us of that fact.
Food literally makes up who you are. This is nothing profound, but it’s surprising how easy it can be to forget. Thankfully, there are people at the University of Calgary who have developed a course program to remind us of that fact.
Last year, Jay Cross and the team in the College of Discovery, Creativity and Innovation (CDCI) introduced our cohort to the global challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050. The university has created something novel with the Global Challenges I course, and when Global Challenges II came around, I was thrilled for another opportunity to innovate.
But what makes Global Challenges so unique? Well, let’s talk about the inquiry-based model of learning.
In late September, some friends and I joined the Student Organization for Aerospace Research (SOAR), a student-led club on campus that specializes in designing and launching rockets and balloons. Now, what’s interesting is how similar the process of designing a rocket is compared to designing an innovation for Global Challenges.
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