The San Diego Incubator for Innovation will launch on October 12, 2013 and run through September 2014. Crowd-sourcing, community input, and a public vote led to the selection of a STEM-related challenge to galvanize the incubator’s efforts—Water, and the mismatch between regional supply and demand. The incubator’s innovation teams will be creating and developing solutions to water-related issues. The San Diego AoSL team recruited actively to build a strong group of participants, reaching out to many disciplines and roles within the community:
- engineers, scientists, technology developers ;
- visual and performing artists, teaching artists, curators;
- K-12 classroom teachers, college and university educators;
- museum professionals and informal educators;
- high school and college students;
- architects, designers, land planners, geographers;
- policy makers, military, and business leaders;
- people with expertise in water issues.
The San Diego Art of Science Learning Innovation Fellows—100 community members diverse in expertise, life experience, and age—will participate in a series of workshops focused on innovation process (targeting opportunities, generating solutions, new product development and testing, market and business planning, seeking investment) and innovation skills (creativity, communication, collaboration). They will organize into teams around the ten best ideas for innovative products, services, and/or educational programs, and develop those ideas to move them to market.
