By connecting foundational skills to real-world opportunities, children are empowered to make an impact in their world, today.
Design Thinkers Change the World.
Modeled after Stanford University’s Institute of Design, Mount Vernon teaches design thinking, people-centered problem solving. With an emphasis on collaboration and creativity, students discover, empathize, experiment, and produce solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems.
Navigating Innovation Needs a Guide
The Mount Vernon Institute for Innovation is a team of maverick leaders and educational designers who are helping schools transform through people-centered design. MVIFI grew from the thought and action leadership at Mount Vernon and maintains a symbiotic relationship as accelerator and amplifier of the School’s work. Continuously innovating ourselves, MVIFI provides leadership in transformational learning and school redesign in a number of ways.
MVIFI delivers on-site events such as “School Transformation Tours”, “School Reimagined”, and various summer camps. We welcome you to join us as we continue to creat the future of education.
MVIFI creates and supports program innovations at Mount Vernon, like Innovation Diploma and Maker, Design, and Engineering. We are designing opportunities that empower learners to be change agents.
MVIFI serves as a transformational design studio. We help organizations create dynamic growth, innovative practices and people-centered approaches to problem-solving.
We can't wait to hear your story.
