Teach Design Thinking & Empower Changemakers

Unlock your students’ potential with Pactful’s free Design Thinking curriculum, equipping them with the skills to solve real-world challenges through creativity, collaboration, and innovation.

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What is Pactful?

Pactful® is a patent pending social good innovation tool and curriculum used globally by teenagers and teachers who want to build a better world. Pactful’s entirely virtual solution inspires students to actively engage in the design thinking process and develop an innovator’s mindset to create solutions aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

How Pactful Works

Pactful teaches teenagers how to become social good innovators in order to help build a better world. Starting at the Innovator’s Guide, students are introduced to the innovator’s mindset, the 17 UN Global Goals (or SDGs), and design thinking.

Students then form teams and identify a local or global problem that feels relevant to them. Teams work through a three-phase design thinking curriculum—Understand, Ideate, and Prototype—to create a solution to their identified problem. During each phase, teams:

  • Explore – learn about the phase and how it relates to their project
  • Do – complete activities
  • Document – submit their activities to their teacher for review and feedback

Once completed, teams will develop a Pitch to share their solution with a larger audience. Using the Showcase feature, teams can see other projects from other classes and how they are aligned to the Global Goals.

Diagram of Pactful's Design Thinking Phases and a Pitch phase with arrows to suggest that there's no specific order

Why teach it?

Research shows your chances of becoming an innovator and inventor depends on several variables:

  • Where you live
  • Your race
  • Your gender
  • Your socioeconomic level

If you are not wealthy, white, rich, or a male who lives in one of the five major US cities where the majority of patents are developed, you are up to ten times less likely to become an inventor.

It's estimated there are millions of "Lost Einsteins" due to access inequality to innovation culture
Map of US showing where inventors grow up. NE has more innovators than the SE.
Map of US with numbers on each state indicating their ranking in Bloomberg's 2019 US State Innovation Index
Chart showing that as parent income increases so do the number of inventors with the top 1% of wealthy being 10x more likely to innovate.
Pie chart showing innovators by gender. Males are 82% and females are 18%.
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Build Solutions Aligned to the Global Goals

Using Pactful, students are introduced to the innovator’s mindset, the 17 United Nations Global Goals, and design thinking. Students form teams to identify a local or global problem that feels relevant to them and then work through three phases of a design thinking curriculum to develop solutions.

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