The Pacific Innovation & Technology Academy

CORE VALUES

1. Human-Centered Design:  Through understanding the experience, behavior and motivations of others, we can identify the innovations they need and imagine unique new opportunities to serve them.

2. Applied Active Teaching & Learning:  Through practical active and hands-on teaching experiences, we provide sticky learning experiences for our students that they can use to solve real-world problems.

3. Multi-Discipline:  CollaborationWe design powerful models by accessing existing capabilities across disciplines and combining them in new and different ways.

4. Co-Creation:  We desire to engage people in the co-creation of new models, systems, and solutions. We don’t design for users, we design with them.

5. Experimentation:  Through a portfolio of rapid prototyping and experiments that test multiple solutions, we accelerate innovation.

6. Embrace Failure:  Through failure we learn lessons on how to improve, strike opportunity, and pivo toward a positive direction.

7. Creative Culture:  We provide an environment that cultivates novel and appropriate approaches to problem solving and nurtures unorthodox thinking and its application.

8. Story Telling:  We use stories to pull people into transformation, asking them to co-create the narrative as it unfolds.