The Goal:

We are in the design and planning phase of a new climate change impact planning software product (related to "UN Sustainable Development Goal 13: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts"). The product will produce a set of climate change impact reports in a given geographical area. The primary end users will include municipal government officials and urban planners, insurance companies, and other stakeholders who are concerned about climate change impacts in that region.

As part of this effort, we are working extensively with students using the Riipen platform. The student contributions vary widely per project, and include technical (prototypes, designs) as well as business work (market research, user personas, digital marketing). You can get a sense of the scope of the work by viewing our list of Riipen Projects.

Each project has its own unique goals. However one constant goal is that we always wish to support the experiential learning and ensure that our student project contributors have the best possible educational experience.

Your Contribution

We would like you to develop a training/onboarding course and supporting material that we can use to provide a consistent and optimum experiential learning experience to our student collaborators on Riipen. This could include:

• checklist for onboarding students to a project
• Cheat sheets/FAQs
• Product and project background material
• Survey questions we can ask students during and after a project to improve their learning experience and understanding of the project goals and requirements

We are excited about our climate change product and we want our student contributors to have the most positive and productive learning experience with its development! So your creativity is very welcome and in fact highly encouraged!