Crayons to Diplomas started because of fundamental flaws in the education system.  Students have valuable input and feedback that can better universities and schools, and entrepreneurs are well positioned to implement and bring about a necessary change.

There are many people with credible ideas on how to reform our schools.  Unfortunately, their ideas do not come to light because they lack the community to share and drive the ideas forward.  Crayons to Diplomas seeks to create an online community of innovators and students who wish to see education improve.

With nearly 70,000 students at ASU, the opportunity to engage and generate valuable input from these students is high.  If each student had one idea over the course of the school year, that would be roughly 70,000 new ideas and opportunities to innovate the ASU education experience.  Because this is a website, Crayons to Diplomas is not confined to one campus.  It has the potential to impact several campuses across the nation.  To best engage and cultivate conversation, Crayons To Diplomas has three main parts: interviews from entrepreneurs and a forum to engage students and innovators in discussion, and blogs written by students offering solutions to challenges they see in their education.

Crayons To Diplomas aims to accomplish 3 main goals:

1- We want to generate engagement and conversation from students about their ideas to improve education.  Essentially, we want to bring the student voice back into the schools.

2- By creating a platform of ideas for students, we want to become a database of information for schools to use to improve themselves.

3- We want to work from the bottom-up to innovate and improve education, while universities work from the top-down to address issues important to them. This way, more people feel the effects of change quicker.

Crayons to Diplomas is a project organized by Austin Frogge and Boris Fowler.