d’Skills Rebels Making Impacts NOW
Impact10 Projects + Stories.
Executed by d’Skills Rebels in just 10 weeks.
Meghana Kotta
Senior @Castle Lakes High School
Jeremy Ianne
Senior @Catawba Ridge High School
LinkedIn
Sophia Patznick
Homeschooled, Maumee OH
Priyal Sanghvi
Brampton, Ontario
Linkedin
“I designed courses for an ADHD coach, and made 500+ professional connections!”
Nate Corona
Watsonville, CA
Guillaume Pieteraerens
Brussels, Belgium
LinkedIn
Yari Estrada
Fort Mills, SC
Linkedin
Bots. By students in Expedition AI.
Click on the link to open the AI bot and chat using a free ChatGPT account!
By Everett Heuer
Go back in time and explore a different era!
By Beck Hagman
Upload pictures of random objects! GHOST will tell you how they could be useful for survival during an apocalypse.
By Zoey Doshi
Try out a new outfit with TrendSetter and get personalized recommendations!
By Ziva Doshi
What do you do in a firstaid emergency? Chat with QuickAid.
By Stella Fornari
Chat with my Sassy Hawaiian-style aunty for advice :)
2-Week Sprinter Gallery
Impact Projects executed in just 14 days.
DEUCE HOMCHIK
My d’Skills: Hype Videos 👀 Media Editing 👀 Career “Day in the Life” Videos 👀 Graphic Design
I filed a hype video for the Anne Springs Close Greenway to post on TikTok/IG/Website and attract Gen Z customers.
ACADIUM
ACADIUM
Productivity Tracker for Students 🎉
🥳 Coded and launched a fully functional prototype on Chrome Store! (With zero former coding experience)
🎉 Grew Instagram to 300+ followers, showcasing our mission's appeal.
🔥 Established key partnerships to broaden Acadium's impact.
🚀 Strengthened leadership unity between Aurora and Anna, driving progress.
👊 Built an inclusive community, central to Acadium's values.
COMMUNITY CAFE WONDERS
My d’Skills: Recruiting highschoolers 🩸 HTML coding 🩸 graphic design 🩸street interviews 🩸 market research 🩸interior design 🩸 merch design
Hi! I’m Anna Mitchell. I helped The Community Cafe attract highschool volunteers, filmed a marketing promo video, and even modified HTML code on their website!
KATE BAKER
My d’Skills: Awareness campaigns 👀 3D/Mixed media art 👀 Out-of-the-box marketing 👀 Event marketing 👀 back-to-office proposal + design 👀 book cover design 👀 meta/virtual fashion line
I collaborated with a local eye doctor business to raise awareness about chronic dry eyes, which I struggle with due to frequent screen usage as a Native Digital. Using my skills in 3D and mixed media, I created an awareness video featuring wearable art using an extended metaphor about geckos. My project aimed to showcase the potential of art in helping businesses and spreading awareness about health issues. I could apply my art skills to helping business of all sorts — the only limit is my creativity!
STUD MUFFINS
We learned how AND designed an app in 5 days! Here’s what else we could help with using our d’Skills:
App prototype 🦾 Graphic design/logo design 🦾 Online/digital course design 🦾 Book cover and/or graphic design 🦾 Back to Work proposal – we could create a proposal for how to make your physical office spaces more appealing, effective, and enjoyable 🦾 Review pitch decks 🦾 Design meta/virtual fashion line
Here’s what we did for The Sleepy Poet to help them reach a Gen Z audience:
CATE CONNOR
My d’Skills: Street interviews 😎 Competitor mystery shop! 😎 Customer service mystery shop 😎 Build online Discord/Geneva/Circle community 😎 Website review from a Gen Z perspective 😎 Hype videos
I partnered with Carolina Family Chiropractic in Rock Hill, SC to film a promotional video to show others around the office including kids. We wanted to create a video to show that the office (as I learned over the few days filming there) is a family. Not only does it help with physical problems but the Chiropractic Center helps to bring people together. I wish to see this business grow as I think it will, and hope others will see the true sense of the word Family in this office.
BE DESIGN.
Our d’Skills: Interior design 💋 Prototype design 💋 Graphic design 💋 Project management 💋
Our team designed the Cat Lounge for the Humane Society of York County. We worked with our client to select colors, design the physical space, created mock-ups, and then we executed the project!
OWENANDEEL
Our d’Skills: Book cover design 🩸 Hype videos 🩸 Gen Z micro-consulting (what makes your brand appeal to Gen Z??) 🩸 Reaction videos
We want to save physical book stores! So we gave Barnes + Noble corporate our unfiltered, Gen Z advice on what they need to do to become relevant. And we helped our local B+N increase foot traffic with some TikTok mood videos.
CHEMMASTRY!
Our d’Skills: Social media strategy 👅 Tiktok/Reels 👅 Attracting + recruiting Gen Z 👅
A strong social media presence is key for attracting customers in this day and age, especially customers from a younger crowd (millennials and gen z). When videos go viral, they bring so much attention to the business who posted them! However, not just any video can go viral. It’s important to be up-to-date with what is trending, and know how to strategize, so you can use your social media presence to your full advantage. A video must be planned out, and well-made… That’s where team Chemmastry comes in! (Team Chemmastry = Char Tran + Emma Ryan. The formula for good digital marketing!)
LUCY CONREY + CARLEY BARNES
Our d’Skills: Set up LinkedIn profiles 🧠 Career website refresh/video campaign 🧠 Hype videos 🧠 Street interview/humor
Bags to Benches is a program started by the “Trex” company used to reduce plastic waste in communities. Plastic waste can be recycled and after 500 pounds are collected, a park bench can be produced with the recycled material. The town of Fort Mill has been participating in this program since the start of the pandemic, when they noticed the collection of plastic waste accumulating in the community. We wanted to highlight this good cause in our community and encourage our community to donate their extra plastic bags.
TEAM GO TO
Our d’Skills: Event Photography 🩸Instagram/FB Photography 🩸Graphic Design 🩸 Awareness campaigns 🩸Small business photography 🩸 Product/event launch campaign 🩸Hype videos
My partner and I chose to advertise Willow Wood Coffee for our project. We photographed the business, atmosphere, customers, items sold there, and more. We then used those photos to create flyers that we put up around the community. Finally, We went through all of the pictures we took and sent them to the owners of Willow Wood Coffee so they could use them for their website and social media accounts. For this project we used our communication, photography, digital design, and collaboration d’skills
KATHRERINE MANN.
My d’Skills: Digital design 👂Flyers 👂 Event flyers 👂 Menus 👂 Website graphics
I helped a local business called Humble Cup Coffee Co. by creating a digital menu for their website and for printing hard copies. Their website previously only had a picture of their in-store menu. I can create use my graphic design d’Skills to make anything look beautiful!
SIA DIGADHE
My d’Skills: Build model for reducing carbon emissions 🤞Evaluate your company and provide research/report on how to improve sustainability 🤞 Greenspace design + recommendations 🤞 Agricultural planning
With my background in environmental science research, I understand how to integrate sustainability strategies into business operations. My research abilities can help companies identify opportunities for innovation and stay current with the latest trends in the field. In addition, as a member of Gen Z, I can offer unique insights into this demographic's consumer habits and values. By combining my expertise in environmental science and Gen Z, I can assist companies in designing sustainable strategies that align with younger consumers' preferences and values, leading to increased profitability and stronger relationships with customers and communities.