One important graduation requirement sgolb could help scaffold is the senior thesis. Presumably the senior thesis would be based in some way on the creation of the student utopias, and I've been trying to think exactly how this could work, since creating the utopias will take research, and of course the thesis takes research. How to do this without overwhelming the students in research? One way to approach this would be to have red team create their utopias before their thesis, (in the first half of the year) and use the research for the utopias for practice and honing skills needed for their thesis. Perhaps the thesis questions are developed when the students "pitch" their utopias before some sort of panel or board, as we had been thinking initially. Could students choose a question/questions posed to them by the panel to explore more in depth for their thesis; ie: is a stable state system the most effective way to go in your utopia?
The junior thesis could be connected to our work with Save the Bay, since we've said we want junior theses to be connected to community service. The juniors on red team could transform a piece of land and/or a building into a "green" space, designate it for a particular purpose or organization, and present/pitch to the community group for whom it was designed.
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