This session the Middle School and High School are doing an Entrepreneurship Quest in Operations. The overall objective of this quest is for the Eagles to understand how businesses become more efficient in creating products and how that has a direct impact on the revenue and waste of a company.
They will optimize an assembly line by performing kaizen workshops and use root cause analysis and spaghetti diagrams to help optimize the cleaning of the studio. After they have found the cleaning best practices, they will create standard operating procedures for each cleaning task. They will learn about basic terms such as bottlenecks, capacity, cycle time, throughput, batching vs continuous flow manufacturing, work in process and scrap.
They will also have an introduction to agile development by creating "to-do cards" and having a daily standup meeting each morning to discuss what they are working on and have completed each day. The exhibition will have the Eagles creating products and presenting how they became more efficient over the session.
