Past Cooper Hewitt Design Fellows
The Fellowship supports a registered Queensland school teacher to visit the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
| Year | Recipient's name and grant amount | Home organisation | Project title and outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Program on hold due to COVID-19 | ||
| 2019 | Ms Jasmine Kassulke $20,000 | Marsden State High School | Designing for change - future ready Marsden Mako's Changed teaching programs to better deliver design education across a variety of curriculum areas. Aligning curriculum with design ideas. The outcome is to broaden student's understanding of design, design process and human needs. It also develops their skills of observation and analysis. |
| 2018 | Mr Herman Rijken $15,000 | Cooktown State School | Designing in remote Queensland Designed a workshop for the Far North Queensland regions tailored for young people and teachers. Advocated for teachers on designing the syllabus. Rewrote two units using design thinking. |
| 2017 | Mrs Chantelle Sansness $20,000 | Oakleigh State School | Enabling students to meet global challenges through design education Aided in the implementation of a whole of school design centred strategy and is currently seconded to the QCAA where she is helping instil design thinking into the state technologies curriculum. |
| 2016 | Ms Dana Holden $20,000 | Kedron State High School | Equipping teachers for the 21st century – students, careers and the unknown Design thinking helped refine teaching drama classes. Teaching design thinking to colleagues. Used design thinking to create the State Conference for Drama Queensland. |
| 2015 | Mrs Dawn Boland $18,000 | John Paul College | To empower and align through design Brought back new skills and became a different teacher. Part of an Innovation team at the school. Introduced a Design & Entrepreneurship course. |
| 2015 | Mr Silas Middleton $17,000 | Beenleigh State High School | Junior secondary by design Brought back learnings to the school to various age groups. Looked at ways to encourage further design thinking at the school. Looking to create a design thinking model to map processes which can be used by others. |
| 2014 | Mr Terence Deen $19,000 | Kelvin Grove State College | 21st century education: Interdisciplinary creative intelligence Presented to colleagues at school and contributed to DesignMinds online design education. Hosted a professional development workshop at APDL and is now Head of Learning at QAGOMA. |
| 2012 | Mr Adam Jefford $16,000 | Windaroo Valley State High School | n/a |
| 2011 | Mr Alwyn Powell $17,000 | Darling Heights State School | n/a |
| 2010 | Mr Kevin Collins $18,000 | St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Barcaldine | n/a |
| 2009 | Mr Leslie Hooper $19,000 | Kelvin Grove State College | n/a |