Nucleus

My MFA Industrial Design Thesis project. Nucleus is a platform that brings together passionate designers and dedicated teachers to create a more interactive, hands-on approach to learning.

Duration:
September 2014 - May 2015

Team:
Ashwath Anand, and a lot of help from: Prof. Michael Felix, Prof. Bruce Claxton, Prof. John McCabe, Tyler Decker, Alexandra Patron, Shan Selvaraj, Nupoor Rajkumar, Amar Chadgar, Cathy Gu and Ali Murtaza

Role:
Design research, research synthesis, product design, fabrication, web development

Tech stack:
wordpress && bootstrap

Project Details
This is my MFA Industrial Design Thesis project. Nucleus is a platform that brings together passionate designers and dedicated teachers to create a more interactive, hands-on approach to learning.
Inspired by how quickly I learned to make projects with the Arduino platform, I set out to create a platform that would do the same for formal education.



Project outcomes
After reaching out to several educational institutions in Savannah to partner with, I decided to build Nucleus in collaboration with Charles Ellis Montessori School. During my collaboration With the School, I was able to develop two projects with the teachers and students: The Golden Ratio learning kit and Intro to Makey Makey.