Osmosis Design Youth Forum

Project Osmosis Design Youth Forum is an all-day showcase of the design fields for high school students city-wide that immerse them in their selected disciplines by assigning projects — the best of which are awarded with prizes. Students take home materials of the chosen discipline, and certificates for participation.


Goals
• To support pre-professional career discovery in design disciplines among minority youth.
• To identify mentors and role models.
• To harvest participants for candidacy in the mentoring program the following year.

Along with immersing students in a college learning environment, the Design Youth Forum’s curriculum entails instruction in the following:

• Basic principles of design
• Definitions of design disciplines
• A design project and critique
• Career opportunities within a particular design discipline
• Preparing and applying for design school
• Applying for design jobs
• Building a design portfolio
• Design resource guide (schools, organizations, publications, libraries, databases etc.)