01-school-pitch-deck
Cipta — School Pitch Deck
Audience: QLD primary and secondary school decision-makers — Heads of Curriculum, Heads of Junior School, STEM/Design coordinators, Diversity & Inclusion leads, Principals. Format: 12 slides, ~10 minute talk OR static PDF leave-behind. Drop into Canva or Google Slides. Tone: confident, specific, not salesy. Lead with the cultural object, then the engineering, then the curriculum hooks.
Slide 1 — Cover
Visual: Hero photo — child holding a lit handmade lantern, classroom background. Title: Cipta — Cultural Engineering for Schools Subtitle: Workshops where students build the objects of their heritage, and learn engineering doing it. Footer: ciptalabs.com · adamdawud@gmail.com · Brisbane, QLD
Slide 2 — The problem we solve
Headline: Two gaps in modern schooling. Body (two columns):
- Cultural connection is fading. Students from migrant and multicultural families know less about their heritage each generation. Schools want to honour intercultural understanding, but lack curriculum-ready ways in.
- STEM is generic. Robotics clubs, coding clubs, science fairs — engaging, but disconnected from who the child actually is. The maker stays a stranger to the maker.
Closer: Cipta closes both gaps in one workshop.
Slide 3 — What Cipta is
Headline: Cipta runs hands-on cultural engineering workshops. Body: Children build meaningful objects from their heritage — ketupat, lanterns, kites, batik patterns, prayer-inspired geometry, cultural instruments, traditional architecture — and learn real engineering, electronics, design, and making skills doing it.
Visual: Three thumbnails — woven ketupat, lit paper lantern, painted wau kite.
Slide 4 — The Cipta method
Headline: Every workshop has three layers. Body (3-column):
- Culture — the story, object, celebration, tradition.
- Engineering — the structure, mechanism, material, circuit, pattern, system.
- Creation — the child builds something they take home.
Closer: Heritage that you can hold.
Slide 5 — Workshop catalogue
Headline: Five signature workshops. Adapt to your year level. Visual: 2x3 grid (each tile = hero photo + title + 1-line engineering hook):
- Ketupat Geometry · weaving structures, tessellation, polyhedra.
- Lantern Circuits · LEDs, switches, paper engineering.
- Wau Kite Aerodynamics · centre of gravity, lift, drag, symmetry.
- Batik Pattern Algorithms · computational thinking, pattern repetition.
- Cultural Instrument Acoustics · resonance, frequency, materials.
Closer: Custom workshops available — bring us your community’s heritage and we’ll build the workshop with you.
Slide 6 — One workshop in detail: Lantern Circuits
Headline: A 90-minute workshop, end-to-end. Body (table or stacked rows):
- Cultural anchor: Lanterns across Eid, Vesak, Lunar New Year, Diwali — why light, why paper, why for celebration.
- Engineering: Closed circuits, polarity, simple switches, paper folding for structural rigidity.
- Build: Each student designs and folds their own lantern frame, wires a coin-cell-powered LED circuit, decorates with culturally inspired patterns.
- Take home: A working illuminated lantern.
- Ages: Year 3–8 (differentiated).
- Outcome: Students can explain a closed circuit AND can describe one cultural meaning of light in celebration.
Visual: Photo of a finished lantern lit up.
Slide 7 — Curriculum alignment
Headline: Mapped to Australian Curriculum v9 — verified for QLD via QCAA. Body (two columns):
Learning Areas:
- Design & Technologies — knowledge & understanding, processes & production skills.
- Mathematics — geometry, patterns, measurement.
- Science — light, sound, forces, materials.
- HASS — culture, identity, communities, history.
- The Arts — Visual Arts, Music.
General Capabilities:
- Intercultural Understanding (priority).
- Critical and Creative Thinking.
- Personal and Social Capability.
Cross-curriculum priorities:
- Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia.
- (First Nations content delivered only in genuine partnership with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander educators.)
Closer: Detailed mapping per workshop available on request.
Slide 8 — What students take away
Headline: Three things go home with every child. Body:
- An object they made with their own hands.
- A skill they can name and explain (a circuit, a structure, an algorithm, a sound).
- A story about their culture they didn’t have when they walked in.
Visual: Three photos — object, skill (close-up of hands wiring/weaving), child explaining to parent at pickup.
Slide 9 — Logistics
Headline: We come to you. You provide the room. We bring everything else. Body (table):
- Duration: 60, 90, or 120 minutes. Full-day, multi-week, and term-long programs available.
- Group size: 15–30 students per facilitator (one Cipta facilitator per group).
- Space: Standard classroom or hall. Tables, chairs, power point. Wet area helpful for some workshops.
- Materials: Cipta provides all materials and tools per child — you provide the students.
- Waste: All packaging recycled or returned with us.
- Pricing: From AUD$25/student for a 90-minute single workshop. Whole-school days, term residencies, and competition programs priced separately.
Slide 10 — Safety, insurance, compliance
Headline: Every box ticked. Body (checklist):
- Public Liability Insurance: AUD$20M.
- All facilitators hold a current QLD Blue Card.
- Risk Assessment provided per workshop on request.
- Child Safe Organisation policy (aligned to QLD Family and Child Commission standards).
- Photography conducted only with signed parent/carer consent forms.
- Compliant with QLD Department of Education Third-Party Provider requirements.
Slide 11 — Why now, why us
Headline: Multicultural QLD has been waiting for this. Body:
- 1 in 5 Queenslanders speaks a language other than English at home.
- The school calendar already has the cultural anchor points: Harmony Week, Eid, Diwali, Lunar New Year, NAIDOC, Refugee Week.
- Cipta connects those moments to your STEM and D&T strands — instead of running them as separate “celebration days”.
- Founder-delivered. Designed by an engineer who grew up between cultures. Every workshop tested before it ships.
Slide 12 — Let’s pilot
Headline: One free trial workshop in Term 3. Body:
- We offer one school per month a free 90-minute pilot workshop.
- You choose the workshop, year level, and class.
- We document outcomes with you (with consent).
- If it works, we co-design what the rest of your year looks like.
CTA: Book a 20-minute discovery call → ciptalabs.com/schools Footer: adamdawud@gmail.com · ciptalabs.com
Production checklist
- Take 6 hero photos (one per workshop + a child-in-action photo) — even staged shots beat stock.
- Get one teacher quote (even from a friend who teaches) for slide 12.
- Add ABN once registered.
- Build the per-workshop curriculum-mapping appendix (see
04-curriculum-mapping.md). - Convert this into Canva master + export PDF + export PNG for email.