My Creative Process

During CPSA250 this semester, I was taught different techniques to practice to make the creative process of this capstone easier. As a figure skater with about 14 years of skating experience and 4 years of coaching experience, I have taught beginner to advanced classes to a range of age groups, but they all had some sort of curriculum to follow. That being said, as I started my capstone project, I was nervous about having to come up with my own curriculum to teach techniques of improvisation. Throughout the culmination of this project I struggled with “killing my darlings” (how to get rid of ideas that may not be needed), especially when deciding what to teach each week (Dietz). To combat this, I found that practicing Iterative Design in the verification phase allowed me to decide what would be beneficial for the skaters in the workshop and what to include in my final curation. As an electrical engineering student, I found that a similar process could be used in my future career when I will need to be innovative in my design process. 

Dietz, Lynda. “What It Really Means to Kill Your Darlings.” Medium, The Writing Cooperative, 21 Mar. 2020, writingcooperative.com/what-it-really-means-to-kill-your-darlings-ab364e312eea.