We recently partnered with Autodesk to help shape and grow their Design & Make Ambassador Program—an initiative that empowers students to lead, teach, and build with purpose.

Our collaboration began with refining the program’s voice and identity, developing design templates, and creating marketing content to help grow awareness among students and educators. But the heart of the project—and the part that will stay with us the longest—was the storytelling.

To truly understand the impact of the program, we traveled to Georgia Tech, Savannah College of Art & Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Cornell University to meet the ambassadors in person. We interviewed and filmed twenty students who are using design and engineering not just to launch careers, but to make a positive impact on the world.

Each conversation left us inspired. The students we met were curious, thoughtful, and ambitious—not simply chasing success, but looking for ways to contribute, to create, and to solve meaningful problems. In a time when so much energy is spent looking backward, their optimism for the future was a reminder of what creativity is really about.

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