This document provides prompts and quotes to encourage students to think creatively and come up with big ideas to make their mark on the world. It includes questions like "How can we make a knife for a girl?" and "How do you evacuate people from a burning skyscraper?" along with quotes about thinking big, making a difference, and silencing doubts to turn dreams into realities. The program is designed to encourage young minds to think beyond limits and parameters.

1. Astonish Me!
Idea generation in the classroom
Alissa Phillips

2. Social Entreprenures are driven by
a desire to make their mark on the
world...They are fundamentally
interested in what works in
practice...They are often not easy
people to be around, particularly if
you are not interested in what they
are doing. They are VERY focused.
Andrew Mawson

9. “You have to think anyway so
you may as well think big.”
Donald Trump

10. “We have to find new ways of
using scarce resources, and people
have to be persuaded that they can
make a difference and create for
themselves that necessary change,
without waiting on the dead hand
of government. ”
Bromley-by-Bow Community Philosophy

11. We have enough people who tell it
like it is - now we could use a few
who tell it like it can be.
Robert Orben

12. Encouraging little minds to
think big. A program written
by
Alissa
Phillips
Young
guns How are you going to make you mark on the world?

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14. 12
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9 Nicole Jo 3
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15. Combine
Modify Reverse
Minify Elimination
Rearrange Adapt
Magnify Simplify
Substitute Repurpose

16. Combine
What else can we put a knife into?
Modify
How can we make a knife for a girl? Reverse
Minify Elemination
Rearrange Adapt
How can we get more
into the knife?
Magnify Simplify
Substitute Repurpose

17. Combine
Modify Reverse
Minify Elimination
Rearrange Adapt
Magnify Simplify
Substitute Repurpose

18. 12
The restaurant with no customers
6
food
3
location

19. How does this happen in linear
time or waves?
Been done Interesting Are you nuts!

20. 9 arameters

21. How do you evacuate people
from a burning skyscraper?

22. NO
Parameters

23. NO
Parameters
Parameters
Retrofit
Low skill
(can be used by the
untrained and unfit)
Saves 100 p/m

24. When given the opportunity its always amazing to
dream a little and at least temporarily silence that
little voice in your head that is telling you it just won’t
work. With a little dreaming and designing combined
with excellent decisions and elegant
implementations you could turn no’s into yes’s,
pessimism into optimism, the past into the future and
your dreams into realities.
Minds at Work
http://www.mindsatwork.com.au/

25. “Creativity is the most effective
response to rapid change.”
Robert Porter Lynch

26. Astonish Me!
Idea generation in the classroom
Alissa Phillips