Patel, K., & Stark, K. B., & Schimpf, C. T., & Daly, S. R., & Agarwal, J. (2025, June), Who Is Important? Pre-College Students’ Identification and Consideration of Stakeholders in a Front-End Design Project  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/57348

\bibitem{asee_peer_57348}
  Patel, K., \& Stark, K. B., \& Schimpf, C. T., \& Daly, S. R., \& Agarwal, J. (2025, June), \emph{Who Is Important? Pre-College Students’ Identification and Consideration of Stakeholders in a Front-End Design Project}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/57348

Krina Patel, Kara Brooke Stark, Corey T Schimpf, Shanna R. Daly, and Jutshi Agarwal.  "Who Is Important? Pre-College Students’ Identification and Consideration of Stakeholders in a Front-End Design Project".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/57348 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_57348}
  Krina Patel, Kara Brooke Stark, Corey T Schimpf, Shanna R. Daly, and Jutshi Agarwal.
  "Who Is Important? Pre-College Students’ Identification and Consideration of Stakeholders in a Front-End Design Project".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/57348 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Understanding stakeholder perspectives is fundamental to design work, yet many designers struggle to effectively identify and engage with diverse groups of stakeholders, particularly in educational settings. This study explores how middle and high school students identify and engage with stakeholders through the Mobile Design Studio (MODS), an NSF-funded web-based platform that integrates Earth and Environmental Science content with Design Thinking. Through an exploratory study of 24 students across three classrooms completing the first MODS module on water conservation, we analyzed student identification and engagement with stakeholders across three phases: identification, profiling, and design ideation. Content analysis revealed that students identified diverse stakeholder categories, with personal connections being the most prevalent. While stakeholder engagement was strong during the identification and profiling phases, it declined during design ideation. Results suggest that while scaffolded lessons help students consider stakeholders initially, maintaining this engagement throughout the design process remains challenging, particularly in later phases such as ideation. Teaching students about stakeholder engagement through scaffolded lessons and reflections encourages them to ideate more inclusive and stakeholder-centered design sketches. Directions for future improvement of the MODS module and plans for more intentional classroom discussions around stakeholders are discussed.
AU  - Krina Patel
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