Webinars
Throughout the Ciena Solutions Challenge, Digital Promise and Ciena offer professional learning and mentoring opportunities for educators and students as they reach their Challenge solution. Check out recordings of previous sessions below and stay tuned for upcoming live sessions.
Cultivating Real-World Problem Solvers: Strategies for Learner Engagement
Before creating solutions, learners should have a clear social purpose in order to respond effectively to real-world challenges. In this panel discussion, educators will share practical ways to engage learners in their Big Ideas through past awardees' stories, strategies, and lessons learned.
Supporting Students with Inquiry-Based Learning
Throughout the Challenge, learners are asked to leverage their problem solving skills in order to develop a solution that will have a beneficial impact in their community. In this session, panelists share techniques to help learners become confident leaders in inquiry during the investigation phases of their Challenges.
Connecting Learners with Technology to Design Solutions for Real-World Challenges
The Ciena Solutions Challenge encourages student-led project teams to consider how creative uses of technology can address real world challenges. In this session, attendees will hear stories from educators about how students used technology in creative ways within their projects.
Helping Students Design Sustainable and Scalable Solutions
Student teams that plan to sustain and scale their solutions should consider having a variety of methods to identify existing community resources (e.g. key people, community support, and existing systems, along with creative use of existing tools and equipment). Hear past awardees share how their student projects have implemented sustainable and scalable designs.