🎯 Learning Intention

Today I will improve my CAD design by making at least one revision and explain why iteration is important in systems design.

✅ Success Criteria

I can show a change I made to my design and explain how it improves the prototype.

🌍 Why Are We Learning This?

The first version is never the final version. Iteration — improving through cycles — is how engineers and designers move from idea to reality.

🧠 Warm-Up – Tech Journal Prompt

💡 “Think about something you’ve done twice — homework, a game, a project. How was your second attempt better than the first?”

📚 Word of the Day

Iteration

• Definition: Repeating a process to make improvements.
• Sentence: “After the first prototype failed, we made another iteration with thicker walls.”
• Why it matters: Iteration is the core of innovation.

📣 Formative Lecture & Guided Discussion

• Explain iteration with real-world examples (phone updates, video game patches, product redesigns).
• Connect to Systems Design Process: after prototype/testing → iterate before final.