LEARNING LAUNCH 

 Challenge 

 I am a student currently doing my BE in Mechanical Engineering . Now that almost the entire world is   under lockdown due to COVID 19 pandemic , I thought this is the right time to apply design thinking and   solve some problems faced by common people . One of the worst hit people during this pandemic are   the daily wage workers . All of their family members depend on their daily wage . Now that the entire   nation is under lockdown , all the daily wage workers are jobless and do not have money to feed   themselves and their families . I thought this is the perfect problem for me to apply design thinking . 

 Selection 

 The design thinking tool I choose was LEARNING LAUNCH . Learning Launch is an experiment meant to   quickly test an idea and prototype . 

 Application 

 The first thing I did was to interview the daily wage workers . I asked about the problems faced by them   and their priorities . Their first and major problem was inability to buy essentials like rice and milk due to   lack of money . Some of them even had small children who had been starving for 2 to 3 days . This really   broke me down . As a design thinker I wanted to do something for these people . I immediately started   collecting money using crowd funding . Crowd funding is basically collecting small sums of money from   multiple people for a business project or social cause . I was able to collect Rs.76000 in 2 days . These   amount came from the donations of more than thousands of people . They were people from different   states , different religions . That day I found out that humanity has no religion . I found that in spite of all   the religion disputes , when there is a problem we all come together . I contacted a local grocery owner   and ordered the basic essentials that were required for the daily wage workers . I planned to give a   grocery kit which consisted of rice , milk , oil , salt , and dal . With the money collected I was able to buy   125 grocery kits . I rented a mini van started delivering these kits to the daily wage workers . 

 Insights 

 The happiness in their faces were priceless . I felt relieved that I have did something for the society . This   would n’t have been possible without design thinking . The LEARNING LAUNCH was the ideal tool for this   problem . The results were on the expected lines . This problem was one of the most difficult problem to   solve . I felt proud of myself that I had solved it using design thinking . 

 Approach 

 Next time I am planning to do the same project on a larger scale . I will interview more people and try to   understand their problems deeply . I would still use the same tool again . I want to   involve more and   more people to join me in doing this . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: LEARNING LAUNCH 

 Challenge 

 I am a student currently doing my BE in Mechanical Engineering . Now that almost the entire world is   under lockdown due to COVID 19 pandemic , I thought this is the right time to apply design thinking and   solve some problems faced by common people . One of the worst hit people during this pandemic are   the daily wage workers . All of their family members depend on their daily wage . Now that the entire   nation is under lockdown , all the daily wage workers are jobless and do not have money to feed   themselves and their families . I thought this is the perfect problem for me to apply design thinking . 

 Selection 

 The design thinking tool I choose was LEARNING LAUNCH . Learning Launch is an experiment meant to   quickly test an idea and prototype . 

 Application 

 The first thing I did was to interview the daily wage workers . I asked about the problems faced by them   and their priorities . Their first and major problem was inability to buy essentials like rice and milk due to   lack of money . Some of them even had small children who had been starving for 2 to 3 days . This really   broke me down . As a design thinker I wanted to do something for these people . I immediately started   collecting money using crowd funding . Crowd funding is basically collecting small sums of money from   multiple people for a business project or social cause . I was able to collect Rs.76000 in 2 days . These   amount came from the donations of more than thousands of people . They were people from different   states , different religions . That day I found out that humanity has no religion . I found that in spite of all   the religion disputes , when there is a problem we all come together . I contacted a local grocery owner   and ordered the basic essentials that were required for the daily wage workers . I planned to give a   grocery kit which consisted of rice , milk , oil , salt , and dal . With the money collected I was able to buy   125 grocery kits . I rented a mini van started delivering these kits to the daily wage workers . 

 Insights 

 The happiness in their faces were priceless . I felt relieved that I have did something for the society . This   would n’t have been possible without design thinking . The LEARNING LAUNCH was the ideal tool for this   problem . The results were on the expected lines . This problem was one of the most difficult problem to   solve . I felt proud of myself that I had solved it using design thinking . 

 Approach 

 Next time I am planning to do the same project on a larger scale . I will interview more people and try to   understand their problems deeply . I would still use the same tool again . I want to   involve more and   more people to join me in doing this .
### Output: 