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0Middle School Project-Based Learning Learning Outcomes Sign Up to Teach Volunteer High School Internship with Impact Youth Led Process Dream City Meet the Interns How to Apply Login Account Open MenuMiddle School Project-Based Learning Learning Outcomes Sign Up to Teach Volunteer High School Internship with Impact Youth Led Process Dream City Meet the Interns How to Apply Login Account Open MenuFolder: Middle School Back Project-Based Learning Learning Outcomes Sign Up to Teach Volunteer Folder: High School Back Internship with Impact Youth Led Process Dream City Meet the Interns How to Apply Login Account Using design to foster young civic leaders in Tennessee now . Check out our youth education programs below. Design Your Neighborhood and Nashville Youth Design Team are Civic Design Center youth education programs that take place in Tennessee. Design Your Neighborhood centers around a project-based middle school curriculum that takes place in classrooms. Nashville Youth Design Team is an extra-curricular high school internship program that builds on skills learned from the Design Your Neighborhood curriculum. History The Civic Design Center has been engaging youth in Nashville’s city planning since we were founded in 2001. Our first large scale project as an organization, The Plan of Nashville , was a platform for hundreds of community members’ ideas to take shape into something we could imagine. Youth were included in that process, and we quickly understood the value behind raising youth voices to advocate for their unique perspectives in how our city is developed. Why design? Design thinking is unique because it requires considering how one might create something to serve a functional purpose, while also representing a visual look that creates or feeds into identity. We focus on place-based design thinking, so youth can take their lived experience and use that to make a physical improvement to their neighborhood before the age of 18. One of the biggest impacts of the Design Your Neighborhood curriculum is the ability for students to come back and represent their community. We’re going to have kids who are thinking, you know, ‘maybe I can do architecture, maybe I can report on this.’” — LaTonya Davenport, I.T. Creswell Middle School ELA Teacher Sign Up to Teach SUPPORTERS Learn more about our youth’s impact in the Nashville area Discover the Impact Civic Design Center 138 Second Avenue North, Suite 106 Nashville, TN 37201 615.248.4280 | www.civicdesigncenter.org About this Site Design Your Neighborhood and the Nashville Youth Design Team are programs led by the Civic Design Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit with the mission to advocate for civic design visions and actionable change in communities to improve quality of life for all. Info Middle School Curriculum Curriculum Samples Student Work Archive High School Internship Action Sign Up to Teach Apply for an Internship Sponsor Our Programs Contact Us © 2024 Civic Design Center. All rights...