October 19th, 2020: Our students dug deeper in the design thinking proccess to create a backpack for a particular user.

October 16th, 2020: Wouldn't it be amazing to actually have everyone want to be at school everyday? In these hard time, we at CDTIE are designing curriculum to provide meaningful virtual teaching experiences. In the spirit of Design Thinking, testing our prototypes is important, we are thankful to the students who have volunteered to be our curriculum testers. These fun and engaging experiences are part of the virtual classroom that our current students attend.

September 25th, 2020: The course gave the participants the opportunity to create a week prototype to improve one of their "Koupas". They will implement it throughout the week and develop it.

Next week, Tuesday 9/29/20, at 5:00 p.m. AST, we will be joined by an amazing guest speaker, Cybel Betancourt. She has been a college professor for the last 20 years, created her own business, "Buenas Cosas" and has recently written her own book : Yo valgo 18 Quilates.

September 18th, 2020: Week two of the "Designing Your Life" course brought us together with 12 people from all over the world. The participants got to create a visual mind map that portrays where they currently are in life and where they want to be.

CDTIE is really excited to see more of our participants work.

August 21th, 2020: We are offering our 4 week course, Design Your Life from September 11th to October 2nd (every Friday at 12 p.m. AST time)!! The focus of the workshop is goal setting and taking that first step to start improving your future.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO DO IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS? How about the next 5? If you dont, we love to have you partcipate and help you, everyone is welcomed. If you are interested please fill out the form here.

August 21th, 2020: In collaboration with Youth Innovation Network (YIN), our new Program Directors led their first workshop!! Luis Obregon was the host for the day supported by Jamani Wilson (behind the scenes). CDTIE is excited to see what happens next!!

August 18th, 2020: For the past 2 weeks our new Program Directors (Luis, Paola, Jamani and Kamila) have been working on their first Design Challenge with fashion designer Jill Pillot!! Today they shared their prototypes with Jill and got amazing comments and feedback from her.

August 14th, 2020: Center for Design Thinkin and innovation in Education signed their first MOU with Casa Grande!! CDTIE

July 31st, 2020: The 5 day long course of Designing your life has comed to an end. CDTIE recieved amazing feedback from our participants that will help us iterate the class in the future.

July 27th, 2020: CDTIE's Diseñar Tu Vida (Designing your life) curriculum has been under iteration for the past couple of months. Diseñar Tu Vida is a course meant for students to become co-creators of their own learning and create a path for their future through the use of Design Thinking. The class also helps the user to be more empathetic, build upon others ideas, develop critical thinking, develop creative problem solving and take initiative.

July 6th, 2020 : Cybel Betancourt joined CDTIE as Executive Director today! Cybel is an educator, speaker and leader developer. As a part-time business administration professor, she has engaged in the development of student’s small businesses. She is a passionate public speaker who focuses on professional and personal development. She has been in the higher education industry for over 20 years and is also the founder of Buenas Cosas LLC. She strongly believes education is the key to changing the world one person at a time, because investing in your personal development can open the doors to anyone’s future.

June 18th, 2020 : El Pueblo Unido has transitioned to its' new phase. Epu is known as Center for Design Thinking & Innovation in Education (CDTIE).

April 16th, 2020 : Our guest speaker, Cybel Betancourt, joined our call today. Cybel has collaborated with EPU for the past year by providing workshops. She has facillitated a numerous amount of undergraduate students that taught exploration classes.

April 13th, 2020: El Pueblo Unido is hosting a two week online internship. We had 7 interns who focused persona/professional development, soft skills (public speaking, anxiety management, negotiation, time management), etc.