Thoughts on the first problem

So I have to say that after this first assignment I am very excited to go to Rome with all of these amazing people.  Our first assignment was to propose a way to teach kids and get them interested in the Roman Forum.  At first my group was a little uneasy about the problem statement because it seemed so open ended.  Our group was a mixture of students (architecture, architectural engineering, accounting, and engineering).  We were asked to us a tool called c-map which allows you to create a interactive thought bubble diagram.  We decided to not limit any idea and to write down everything that was said by a member.  By not limiting ourselves we were able to really discover that we needed to propose a strategy to get kids excited, not do research and tell the professors everything that we knew.  After this everything kind of just fell in to place.  We decided to make a game similar to Cranium.  This strategy allowed us all to play on our strengths.  I love art and so I wanted to research art questions and came up with artsy things to have the kids do such as model statues with clay.  I also was very excited to make the game board.  One of my colleagues was more interested in construction and loved learning somewhat trivial things so he was in charge of the trivia questions.  I think you get the picture.  We had to do quite a bit of research and creative thinking to come up with all of the questions for the game.  In the end I think we all were very proud of our final product.  It was great to see such a positive response from the professors about how interactive we were able to make learning about the Roman Forum be and that we had addressed the problem correctly.