12th Grade — Studio Job Sprint: One More Real Request

⏰ Do Now — Start Here

Compare this job to your very first one this year -- what part of the process feels different now?

This is a real client, not a hypothetical one

Treat every request the same way a professional studio would treat a paying client: confirm the brief, communicate proactively, and get sign-off before production. The staff member's satisfaction is part of the grade.

🎯 Today's Big Question

With everything we've learned this year, how efficiently can we run a full job now compared to the first time?

📈 By the End of Today, You Will Be Able To

Independently run one more complete real studio job, start to finish, on the studio track.
On the internship/college track, bring in and critique one real piece of outside work using this program's design vocabulary.
Compare their speed and confidence on this job to their very first studio job cycle earlier in the year.

🧰 What You'll Need

An assigned real studio request (in-room track)
A piece of outside work (internship/college track)

📋 Your Plan for Today

Day 1: Intake & Plan

Independent work (35 min): confirm the brief and plan the approach.

Day 2: Produce

Independent work (35 min): build toward a strong draft.

Day 3: Revise & Approve

Independent work (35 min): get feedback, revise, and secure sign-off.

Day 4: Deliver & Reflect

Independent work (25 min): produce final and deliver/install.
Write (15 min): compare your speed and confidence to your first job cycle this year.

🖥️ Today's Slide Deck

Short, on-the-board pacing slides — project these to follow along. (The full details are in the handout above, not here.)

📚 Key Words

Turnaround Time: How long it actually takes to complete a job from intake to delivery -- a real, trackable measure of growth.
Design Vocabulary: The specific, shared terms (hierarchy, alignment, contrast, and more) this program uses to talk about what's working and what isn't.

✅ What Your Finished Work Should Include

Job completed to the same rubric used earlier this year; reflection checked for a specific, honest comparison of growth.

Exit Ticket: What's now automatic for you that used to take real conscious effort?

📊 Before You Leave

Quick, anonymous class check-in -- takes less than a minute.

Class Check-In

📁 Portfolio Update — Once a Week

Once a week, add your best finished or in-progress yearbook (or, later, studio) work to your portfolio with a 1-2 sentence caption -- and once you're in the Design Studio phase, a photo of the piece in its real, installed location if possible. This is the same evidence trail you'll use for Archive & Portfolio and any PBAT/portfolio review.

✍️ Example description for your Google Sites portfolio (fill in YOUR blanks -- don't just copy this):

For this piece, I made ______________ (name what you made) for “Studio Job Sprint: One More Real Request.” This project asked: “With everything we've learned this year, how efficiently can we run a full job now compared to the first time?” I used Turnaround Time by ______________ (explain how you used it in THIS piece). The hardest part was ______________, and I solved it by ______________. I'm proud of ______________ because ______________.

🔗 Want to Learn More?

No extra links for this lesson.

🚀 The Extra Mile

Cross-Class Connection: The same time-management-under-pressure skill any timed-assessment class demands.

Career Connection: This exact repeated-cycle experience is what separates a junior hire from a senior one on every income table on the hub.

Go further -- turn this into a portfolio piece:

Time this job cycle and compare it to your very first one, writing up the comparison as a portfolio note. Start here: pull up your very first logged job time from Lesson 15 or 23 before starting the clock on this one.
Offer to take on one more small real request beyond the assignment, purely to build volume. Start here: ask one teacher directly if they have a small design need this week, rather than waiting for a request to come to you.