Excelerate REP4 × GVSU Virtual Learner Design Summit
The REP4 × GVSU Virtual Learner Design Summit is a four-week virtual program that helps you develop design thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and communication skills through real-world industry challenges.
You will work in teams to research problems, generate innovative ideas, build and test solutions, and present your work to educators and industry professionals through workshops, challenge sprints, and mentor-guided activities.
Throughout the program, you will:
- Develop practical design thinking and problem-solving skills
- Work collaboratively to solve real-world industry challenges
- Build and test ideas through hands-on challenge sprints
- Receive guidance and feedback from mentors and industry professionals
- Strengthen your communication and presentation skills
By completing the program, you will gain practical experience, a verified digital credential, a skills transcript, personalized feedback, and access to future academic and career opportunities.
Regional Summits, hosted annually by each of the REP4 founding higher education partners, bring together learners from local and regional high schools and youth-serving organizations to generate ideas that transform their lives, their communities, and education itself.
Learners build essential skills and take charge of their education while institutions encourage and assess ideas for educational change.
At Grand Valley, learner cohorts of rising 11th and 12th graders are identified by schools and organizations throughout the region who have joined as partners in co-creating the Midwest Learner Design Summit experience.
2027 Summit Details Coming Soon!
2027 Summer Overnight Registration Below
Adult Lead Orientation
via Zoom
2027 Coming Soon.
2027 TBD