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Scott Scholars Design Studio

The Scott Scholars Design Studio houses all projects related to design thinking. Our signature Design Studio programs include Community Action Projects during the academic year for all Scott Scholars, the Design Studio Internship during the summer, and design sprints within the Omaha community.

Design Studio Internship

Launched in Summer 2020, the Design Studio Internship program allows Scott Scholars to impact community organizations by helping them solve an organizational challenge using a human-centered design thinking approach. Scott Scholar interns spend their days working with clients and their evenings learning programming languages to create mobile applications. The Design Studio Internship program has expanded to feature students from all five Scott Scholar programs.

The Opportunity:

  • Solve real-world problems for organizations around the Omaha area
  • Learn programming skills in various programming languages
  • Competitive salary with benefits including room and board and an unlimited meal plan
  • Live and learn with fellow Scott Scholars across all five national programs in Omaha, Nebraska

Requirements:

  • Incoming students who have accepted their scholarship or current Scott Scholars
  • Ability to work at least 30 hours per week in person on UNO's campus
  • Attendance of daily project team meetings
  • Delivery of design solution
  • Delivery of culminating group presentation describing deliverables and next steps

During the Summer of 2024, 31 students from UNO, Creighton, Colorado State, Notre Dame, and Hastings College worked in teams to deliver technical solutions for Nebraska Medicine, the U.S. Department of Air Force, Millard Public Schools, and Valentine, Nebraska.

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Community Action Projects

Scott Scholars Community Action Projects (CAP) connect high-achieving STEM students from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with organizations in the Omaha metropolitan area to develop innovative solutions to community challenges. CAP strives to create products that have value for community partners by way of processes that are valuable for students. Different from traditional service-learning projects students face in academic contexts, Community Action Projects feature many more variables, real-life operational challenges, and ever-changing social and professional dynamics.

Using design thinking, a human-centered approach to innovation, teams of 6-10 Scott Scholars work with a partner to identify a challenge, learn more about the people impacted by that challenge, and develop a list of potential solutions. From there, the team chooses one solution to prototype and ultimately helps the partner deploy and evaluate the impact of the prototype and their work overall.

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Partner Organizations for Fall 2024-Spring 2025:

  • Smart Gen Society
  • RISE
  • Arbor Bank
  • Malone
  • UNMC
  • Prairie STEM
  • Tri-faith
  • Special Spaces
  • Bockscar - 55th Wing
  • Corral Tech
  • Soft Sxills
  • Collective for Youth
  • Simply Kids
  • Child Saving Institute

Scott Scholar Design Thinking Process, as adapted from the Harvard dSchool

Project Kickoff Goals

Scott Scholar Students
  • Design and develop a prototype for a tool, program, or service that a nonprofit partner can test.
  • Build experience working in teams through a rapid and principled design process.
  • Provide a chance to shuffle teams and explore working with other nonprofit partners.
Nonprofit Partners
  • Receive creative thinking and a testable solution that will make a difference on a challenge or opportunity they are currently facing.
  • Explore new ways to partner and collaborate with the Scott Scholars program.
Scott Scholars Program
  • Honor the commitment with all stakeholders with creativity, accountability, and compassion.
  • Build capacity, tools, and processes for how student teams can work together in an uncertain environment.

Contact Us

  • Phone: 402.554.6484
  • Email: unoscottscholars@unomaha.edu

Scott Scholars

  • Harnoor Singh
  • Associate Executive Director
  • 402.554.2091
  • hsingh@unomaha.edu
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