High school project idea · Sports & Performance
Redesign everything around the competition so fans feel welcome before the opening whistle and connected after the final play.
Study the full fan journey and create a feasible experience plan that balances energy, accessibility, operations, tradition, safety, and cost.
Why this project matters
Study the full fan journey and create a feasible experience plan that balances energy, accessibility, operations, tradition, safety, and cost. This project feels different from a school assignment because the student serves students, families, athletes, visitors, and staff attending a school or community sporting event, creates something visible, tests it honestly, responds to feedback, and explains the decisions behind the final result.
What you will create
Use these deliverables as milestones for Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience. Adapt the details to your interests, available time, and real-world opportunities.
Research arrival, ticketing, navigation, accessibility, concessions, entertainment, student culture, athlete focus, safety, waste, and post-game connection. Document the needs, constraints, credible sources, and perspectives of students, families, athletes, visitors, and staff attending a school or community sporting event.
Turn the evidence into a focused plan for the game-day experience system, including success criteria, ethical boundaries, scope, and a realistic path to completion.
Create the first complete version of the game-day experience system. Include a fan journey map, audience profiles, experience principles, arrival plan, atmosphere elements, accessibility improvements, run-of-show, budget, and visual proposal.
conduct a game-day audit and prototype selected touchpoints with fans or staff, then measure clarity, belonging, energy, and operational burden Record what happened, what failed, what users or reviewers said, and which changes you made.
Publish the final game-day experience system with a portfolio-ready case study showing the challenge, evidence, process, revisions, results, limits, and next version.
Make the work stronger
For Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience, use these checkpoints to protect the quality of the work without turning the project into a performance for admissions.
Skills you can build
College application value
Can demonstrate initiative, curiosity, reflection, and growth through the student’s choices, response to setbacks, work with students, families, athletes, visitors, and staff attending a school or community sporting event, and development of Experience Design, Event Operations, and Fan Research.
The goal of Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience is not to manufacture an impressive activity. Do real work, keep evidence of the process, and reflect honestly on what changed.
Related college majors
Use Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience as a clue, then open a related major guide to compare coursework, career directions, reality checks, and other ways to test the field.
Design the Ultimate Game-Day Experience is an original Compass educational starting point designed around real work, visible evidence, feedback, and reflection. It is not an admissions guarantee.