Day 02 - Research & Brainstorm the BoB

Today we're going to review the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and we'll reflect a little on what is different between what you learned last year and what you'll be using this year.

We need to spend some time researching something called a Bug Out Bag. These are an invention of the prepper culture. I am not introducing them to you because of any value they might represent as an idea; I'm introducing them to you as an accessible concept that you can easily research. We're going to work through the differences between good and bad sources and how to distinguish between them. (Hint: it all depends on the topic you're researching, because the rules change a little when you are researching something hobby-based like Bug Out Bags as opposed to researching trebuchets, which involve a combination of history and physics literature.)

After that, we're going to do a quick brainstorming exercise (but I cannot publish the topic of the brainstorm in advance because I need everyone thinking about it at the same time).