Student Projects
For the first Light & Sound Action Project, GCE Juniors investigated the following guiding question: Who says you need to buy a camera? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with:…
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For the first Journalism Action Project, GCE Seniors investigated the following guiding question: What’s the meaning of life… in 1000 words & 1 photo? Here’s the scenario students were challenged…
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For the first Forbidden Books Project, GCE Sophomores investigated the following guiding question: How can I become a gadfly? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: Socrates believed that the…
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For the Ollywood Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: How can you critique the elements of film post-production? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “National Public…
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For the Ollywood Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: How can you critique the elements of film production? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “At the…
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For the Five Faces of Genius Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: What patterns emerge by studying genius in others? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with:…
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For the Stage Chemistry Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: What would my theater look like? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: The Goodman Theater partners…
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For the Ollywood Elective Course, GCE students investigated the following guiding question: How can we critique the elements of film pre-production? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: You have…
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For the Population Course, GCE Sophomores investigated the following guiding question: How can you speak the language of scientists who classify? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “Your local…
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For the Equality Course, GCE Seniors investigated the following guiding question: How may we all claim the same rights? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: “There is a time…
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For the first Design & Engineering Action Project, GCE Junior students investigated the following guiding question: How do we make better tools? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: Garden…
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For the Cure Course, GCE Sophomores investigated the following guiding question: What did the Liver say to the Acetaminophen? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: The UNICEF (United Nations…
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For the Policy Course, GCE Juniors investigated the following guiding question: How do we contextualize the need for a policy? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: The city’s aldermen…
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For the Drama Course, GCE Sophomores investigated the following guiding question: How would you give advice as a sonnet? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: Chicago Shakespeare Theater started…
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For the Urban Planning Course, GCE Juniors investigated the following guiding question: How do we build a bridge with minimum resources to support maximum load? Here’s the scenario students were…
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For the Food For Thought Course, GCE Freshmen investigated the following guiding question: What is the history of food, from center of origin to your table? Here’s the scenario students…
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Spring… finally! We can only express our post-winter feelings by quoting Pablo Neruda: Nada puede contener todo el sol en las banderas de la primavera invencible” (“Nothing can contain the…
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For the Experiential Term, GCE Students investigated the following guiding question: How may we live “another person’s” life and “step into their shoes”? Students were asked this guiding question and…
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For the second Disease Action Project, GCE Sophomores investigated the following guiding question: How does someone with a mental disorder feel? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with: The World…
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For the first Who Am I? Action Project, GCE Freshman investigated the following guiding question: What is my truth? What do I believe? Here’s the scenario students were challenged with:…
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