Welcome to the Pitt Design Jam - the friendly design competition where student participants from teams of 2-5 in order to address a real world problem, prototyping their solutions and pitching them before a panel of professional judges and their jam peers for awards! This Jam is open to all Pitt students, regardless of college, major, or year--and we think interdisciplinary teams will have a design ed. This event builds from the momentum of related Pitt jams like the Games 4 Social Impact Jam and SheInnovates but with distinct goals–instead of being relegated to a game or a purely digital format, the Design Jam encourages teams to imagine solutions in any format (e.g. apps, websites, mechanical devices, community programming), focusing on the process and practice of evolving designs and the skills of a successful pitch.